20th August 2025

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 20 2025
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Read the latest digital forensics news – SANS releases DFIR Summit playlist, UAC launches v3.2.0, Neal Ysart discusses the Coalition of Cyber Investigators, and more....

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Wrapping Up The S21 Transcriber Spotlight Session – What We’ve Covered

Wrapping Up The S21 Transcriber Spotlight Session – What We’ve Covered

20th August 2025

Explore S21 Transcriber: a fully offline, court-ready tool with free 30-day access and training....read more

UPCOMING WEBINAR – Retail Under Siege: Fighting Back Against Ransomware With Next-Gen Forensics

UPCOMING WEBINAR – Retail Under Siege: Fighting Back Against Ransomware With Next-Gen Forensics

19th August 2025

Retailers face rising cyber threats—join Exterro's Sept 4 webinar to learn fast, modern forensic response strategies and protect your brand....read more

Digital Forensics Jobs Round-Up, August 18 2025

Digital Forensics Jobs Round-Up, August 18 2025

18th August 2025

Explore a selection of the latest DFIR employment opportunities in this week’s Forensic Focus jobs round-up....read more

Amped Software Is Hiring A Forensic Expert And Software Trainer

Amped Software is currently hiring a Forensic Expert and Software Trainer to join their team at its headquarters in Trieste, Italy (a remote position can be considered). Amped Software develops solutions for the analysis and enhancement of images and videos

How To Boot Scan A Mac With APFS And FileVault 2

Hi, I’m Rich Frawley and I’m the Digital Forensic Specialist with ADF Solutions. Today we are going to conduct a boot scan of a MacBook Air that has APFS and FileVault 2 enabled. At this point you have decided on

How To Boot Scan A Mac With APFS And FileVault 2

Hi, I’m Rich Frawley and I’m the Digital Forensic Specialist with ADF Solutions. Today we are going to conduct a boot scan of a MacBook Air that has APFS and FileVault 2 enabled. At this point you have decided on

What’s Happening In Forensics – Oct 16, 2019

Haroen Bashir of Fox-IT shows how to use machine learning to detect random filenames. The Eclectic Light Company looks inside MacOS Catalina's unified log. John Patzakis talks about why incident reporting requirements under GDPR and CCPA require strict protocols when

What’s Happening In Forensics – Oct 15, 2019

A new utility can now export event logs into different formats. Amped show how to get a better visual inspection of image evidence. US Attorney General William Barr has urged Facebook not to introduce encryption to its Messenger service, since

Webinar: Get The Most Out Of Your Digital Media Investigations

Training experts’ tips & tricks webinar (find out more about the speakers here)Date: October 23, 2019Time: 3 pm CEST (9 am EDT)Registration: Click hereIn this webinar, Griffeye’s training experts will walk you through a session packed with their best tips

What’s Happening In Forensics – Oct 14, 2019

Igor Mikhailov shares his thoughts on the best digital forensic tools. Atola give a demo of their TaskForce tool. Sarah Edwards and Heather Mahalik share a presentation about auto forensics. Matt Edmondson takes a quick look at MDXFIND. The US

What Changes Do We Need To See In eDiscovery? Part II

by Harold Burt-Gerrans Let’s continue from where we left off last time, discussing standardization. If you missed it, Part 1 was all about establishing standards. Now a bit about following standards. This will sound funny to those who know what

What Changes Do We Need To See In eDiscovery? Part II

by Harold Burt-Gerrans Let’s continue from where we left off last time, discussing standardization. If you missed it, Part 1 was all about establishing standards. Now a bit about following standards. This will sound funny to those who know what

A New Opening For Accessing iPhone Data

By: Joel Bollö, CEO of MSAB The mobile forensic market is constantly changing, and changing rapidly. The latest example of that occurred very recently with the publication of a new exploit for the iPhone, the “checkm8” bootrom exploit. The announcement

DFRWS Submission Deadline Extended To Sunday October 13th

If you have been planning to submit a paper to DFRWS EU 2020, the submission deadline has been extended to this Sunday, October 13th. The event will be held on 25-27th March 2020 in Oxford, UK. Papers are welcomed on