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

Huawei Device Support In Oxygen Forensic Detective

Oxygen Forensic Detective offers various methods of data extraction from Huawei devices. First, Huawei devices can be connected via USB cable for logical or physical acquisition depending on the model and Android OS version. However, with constantly growing device security

Interview With Nicole Odom, Forensic Scientist, Virginia DFS

Nicole, you started out in chemistry and biological sciences before moving from orthopedics to digital forensics. What prompted you to pivot into the cyber world? I actually get asked that question quite frequently, as my background has a little bit

What’s Happening In Forensics – Aug 16, 2019

Oxygen Forensics talk about the allegations that Huawei has been spying on US users. Harlan Carvey follows up with a second post on ‘chasing the DFIR cure.’

What’s Happening In Forensics – Aug 14, 2019

Cyan Forensics are partnering with NCMEC, America’s National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, to help detect child abuse material. Greg Masi shares a list of folder type identifiers.

Review: Oxygen Forensic Detective From Oxygen Forensics

by Jade James Oxygen Forensics specialise in mobile device, cloud, drone and IoT data extraction. Oxygen pride themselves in giving law enforcement, federal agencies and enterprises access to data at top speeds, providing advanced digital forensic data extraction and analytical

Oxygen Forensic Detective From Oxygen Forensics

by Jade James Oxygen Forensics specialise in mobile device, cloud, drone and IoT data extraction. Oxygen pride themselves in giving law enforcement, federal agencies and enterprises access to data at top speeds, providing advanced digital forensic data extraction and analytical

What’s Happening In Forensics – Aug 13, 2019

Harlan Carvey asks how our customers determine the accuracy of digital forensic investigations. Cellebrite announce a webinar about finding digital evidence in human trafficking investigations. Amped show how to magnify images for use in investigations.

What’s Happening In Forensics – Aug 12, 2019

The Crimes Against Children Conference is under way in Texas – follow along with the updates on Twitter. Farrell Fritz talks about metadata and its potential role in litigations. Is this the first wedding at an industry conference?

Scott Sattler, Incident Response Manager, HealthFirst

Scott, can you tell us a little about yourself, your role at HealthFirst and how you came to work in digital forensics? I have worked in cyber defense for the last two decades and have witnessed the changing threat landscape

Scott Sattler, Incident Response Manager, HealthFirst

Scott, can you tell us a little about yourself, your role at HealthFirst and how you came to work in digital forensics? I have worked in cyber defense for the last two decades and have witnessed the changing threat landscape

What’s Happening In Forensics – Aug 8, 2019

Ryan Benson adds to his ‘Deciphering Browser Hieroglyphics‘ series. Amped are asking for your input on whether to keep or kill support for Windows XP. Sarah Edwards shares the presentation she and Heather Mahalik presented at SANS this year. Cellebrite

What’s Happening In Forensics Aug 6, 2019

Amped describe how their Authenticate tool allows users to search for reference images online for better integrity analysis. Rolf Rolles shares some automation techniques in C++ engineering.

An AccessData Webinar: Accelerate Incident Response Through Automation

When a data breach occurs, every second counts. With the new RESTful API from AccessData, organizations can now automate incident response, saving up to 40 minutes of analysis time per incident. When an attack is detected by an organization’s cybersecurity