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....

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

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

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

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

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

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

How To Acquire Mobile Data With MD-NEXT From HancomGMD

by Michelle Oh, HancomGMD With an ever-increasing range of features and dramatically increased storage capacity, digital devices have become essential to our daily life. Their ability to store vast amounts of data means that these devices have proliferated and are

How To Acquire Mobile Data With MD-NEXT From HancomGMD

by Michelle Oh, HancomGMD  With an ever-increasing range of features and dramatically increased storage capacity, digital devices have become essential to our daily life. Their ability to store vast amounts of data means that these devices have proliferated and are

What’s Happening In Forensics Aug 2, 2019

Oxygen Forensics explain what facial recognition is and how it is used in their software. Magnet AXIOM 3.4 includes APFS performance improvements.