6th August 2025

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 06 2025
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Read the latest DFIR news – starting a digital forensic business, Hashcat v7.0.0, GenAI incident response guidance, cross-border investigation challenges, and more....

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Halfway Through The S21 Transcriber Spotlight Session

Halfway Through The S21 Transcriber Spotlight Session

6th August 2025

We are halfway through the S21 Transcriber Spotlight — catch up on the latest demos and see how investigators are using the tool in real casework....read more

Safeguarding ICAC Investigators: Detego Global’s Commitment To Mental Well-Being

Safeguarding ICAC Investigators: Detego Global’s Commitment To Mental Well-Being

5th August 2025

Protecting children online shouldn't come at the cost of investigators' mental health—see how Detego Global is changing the game....read more

Semantics 21 Wants Your Help To Rename LASERi-X

Semantics 21 Wants Your Help To Rename LASERi-X

5th August 2025

Semantics 21 is renaming their groundbreaking CSAM forensics tool—and your idea could win your team a free year of access....read more

Register For Webinar: Mastering The Mobile Device Challenge In eDiscovery

As the usage of smart phones and mobile devices continues to increase exponentially their important role in litigation cannot be overlooked. Mobile devices present unique challenges in finding the right data that is responsive to discovery requests. Having the skills

What’s Happening In Forensics – Aug 28, 2019

Oleg Afonin talks about why the iOS 12.4 jailbreak is a big deal for law enforcement. SANS share an introduction to Arsenal Image Mounter. Michael Karsyan talks about different opening methods that can be used to read log files.

Webinar: Oxygen Forensic Jet Engine with Facial Recognition

A new webinar, Oxygen Forensic Jet Engine with Facial Recognition, is available to view here.Join the forum discussion here.View the webinar on YouTube here.Read a full transcript of the webinar here.Read More

Oxygen Forensic Jet Engine with Facial Recognition

Join the forum discussion here.View the webinar on YouTube here.Read a full transcript of the webinar here.Lee Reiber: Welcome to another webinar from Oxygen Forensics. I’m Lee Reiber, and we’re going to walk through Oxygen Forensic JetEngine and talk a

What’s Happening In Forensics – Aug 27, 2019

Oleg Afonin talks about the forensic implications of Touch ID and Face ID in iOS 12. Maxim Suhanov shares a list of open research topics in Windows forensics. Oxygen Forensics demonstrate their Parrot Drone data extraction capabilities.

What’s Happening In Forensics – Aug 26, 2019

Edewede Oriwoh shares a concept and design for the Forensics Edge Management System. Sarah Edwards demonstrates iOS location mapping with APOLLO. SANS begin the countdown to DFIRCon 2019. Cellebrite’s Ben Armon shows how to consolidate multiple identifiers into a single

BlackBag Announces Release Of BlackLight 2019 R2

BlackLight 2019 R2 is now available! This release is packed full of powerful features customers have requested and need to complete investigations quickly and efficiently. Enhancements and Improvements Include: • Archive File Processing• APOLLO Support via the new Plugin Manager•

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this month’s round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Forum members discuss the existence and utility of a forensic seed bank. Can you help Fra93 to check if a PDF file has been manipulated? How would

What’s Happening In Forensics – Aug 22, 2019

Magnet AXIOM 3.5 is now available. Andrea Fortuna discusses how to generate a Volatility profile for a Linux system. SANS talk about understanding the forensic science in digital forensics. MSAB release XRY 8.0.2. Amped describe how Amped FIVE is helping

Transferring A Password Recovery Process To A Different Computer

Did you know that Passware Kit can create a snapshot of a password recovery process at any time and resume it on a different computer? Running a password recovery attack, especially for multiple files or drives, might be a long

BlackBag Announces New Partnership With Berla

BlackBag Technologies announces a new partnership with industry-leading vehicle forensics company, Berla. In today’s investigations, it is now commonplace to have multiple digital devices associated to one case. As such, consolidating acquired devices is critical when reconstructing a sequence of

What’s Happening In Forensics – Aug 21, 2019

John Walsh speaks about child protection investigations at Cellebrite’s TechDay. Amped share how to use Amped FIVE's color deconvolution filter to show relevant elements from color-mixed images.

What’s Happening In Forensics – Aug 19, 2019

Harlan Carvey discusses what ‘program execution‘ really means. Brett Shavers shares how the lessons he learned in the Marine Corps inform his digital forensics career. Anuj Soni shares how to perform code analysis with Ghidra. Cellebrite share a case study