13th August 2025

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 13 2025
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Read the latest DFIR news – evidence of Kohberger’s detailed murder preparations, an alarming rise in child sextortion cases, Brian Carrier’s new mini-course on automation and AI in forensics, and more....

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Well-Being In Digital Forensics And Policing: Insights From Hannah Bailey

Well-Being In Digital Forensics And Policing: Insights From Hannah Bailey

12th August 2025

Hannah Bailey shares her journey from frontline policing to founding Blue Light Wellbeing, explaining why culturally-aware mental health support is crucial for DFIs and frontline workers....read more

Oxygen Tech Bytes In July 2025

Oxygen Tech Bytes In July 2025

12th August 2025

Level up your DFIR skills in under 20 minutes with Oxygen Tech Bytes’ expert-led, on-demand webinars....read more

Neal Ysart, Co-Founder, The Coalition Of Cyber Investigators

Neal Ysart, Co-Founder, The Coalition Of Cyber Investigators

11th August 2025

Neal Ysart shares how The Coalition of Cyber Investigators tackles OSINT integrity, complex investment fraud, and the rise of AI-driven scams....read more

Belkasoft Evidence Center 9.5 Aims To Help In Corporate Investigations

Belkasoft releases a major update to Belkasoft Evidence Center, the company’s flagship digital forensic solution. The new release adds a number of features to help IT security staff analyze incidents and perform remote investigations, investigate hacking attempts and analyze evidence

Magnet Forensics Releases New Free Tool: MAGNET App Simulator

Magnet Forensics is excited to share a new free tool with the digital forensics community, the MAGNET App Simulator. The MAGNET App Simulator gives visualization to Android applications found during your investigation. Allowing for the examiner to load application data

Obtaining Critical Real-Time Evidence From The Cloud

Vladimir Katalov presents his research at DFRWS EU 2018.There is quite a lot of information on the smartphone, that’s probably the most available source now for all the data, including the private data, business data, a lot of [passwords], documents,

Obtaining Critical Real-Time Evidence From The Cloud

Vladimir Katalov presents his research at DFRWS EU 2018. Vladimir: Thank you for coming. Special thanks to all competitors from Cellebrite [chuckles] for being there. [You probably won’t learn anything here.] Anyway, I’m working for ElcomSoft. The company is based

Introducing Mobile Device Investigator

With an ever increasing number of adults owning a smartphone, it is no wonder that more and more crimes now commonly require mobile device evidence collection and analysis. Mobile Device Investigator™, is a new digital investigation tool built from the

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this month’s round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Forum members discuss how to image a server with RAID 5. Can you recommend some good website capture applications? How would you image a Dell 5290 2

Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) In The US

by Patrick Siewart Increasingly, cellular records and their associated location information are being used in civil litigation, where previously they were considered to be a “law enforcement only” tool. But in the age when users carry at least one smartphone

Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) In The US

by Patrick Siewart  Increasingly, cellular records and their associated location information are being used in civil litigation, where previously they were considered to be a “law enforcement only” tool.  But in the age when users carry at least one smartphone

Oxygen Forensics Announces New Director Of Training Hire

Oxygen Forensics has announced the hire of digital forensics expert, Keith Lockhart as its Director of Training. Lockhart previously served as Vice President of Strategic Programs for AccessData Group for 15 years, leading digital forensics training solutions for Local, State,

Now Released: XRY 7.12, XAMN 4.2 And XEC Director 5.0

Today, MSAB released new versions of our product suites – XRY, XAMN and XEC – with many significant new and improved capabilities to help investigators, examiners and other users work faster, smarter and more efficiently. Among the highlights are faster

Building Stack Traces From Memory Dump Of Windows x64

Yuto Otsuki discusses his research at DFRWS EU 2018.Yuto: Thank you, chairperson. I am Yuto Otsuki, a researcher at NTT Secure Platform Laboratories in Japan. Today, I’d like to talk about building stack traces from memory dump of Windows x64.

Building Stack Traces From Memory Dump Of Windows x64

Yuto Otsuki discusses his research at DFRWS EU 2018. Yuto: Thank you, chairperson. I am Yuto Otsuki, a researcher at NTT Secure Platform Laboratories in Japan. Today, I’d like to talk about building stack traces from memory dump of Windows

Upcoming Webinar: Face Recognition in Analyze DI Pro

Date: April 25, 2019Time: 3 pm CEST (9 am EST)Registration: Click here Join us for this highly anticipated webinar and learn about one of Griffeye’s most advanced and appreciated technologies: Face Recognition in Analyze DI Pro. When dealing with millions

Windows Registry Analysis 101

by Chirath De Alwis Computer forensics is the process of methodically examining computer media (hard disks, diskettes, tapes, etc.) for evidence. When considering computer forensics, registry forensics plays a huge role because of the amount of the data that is