22nd July 2026

Digital Forensics Round-Up, July 22 2026
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Read the latest DFIR news – SQLite tips for mobile analysts, serverless forensics, Signal database decoding, AI image detection in iLEAPP and ALEAPP, Linux timeline tooling, macOS triage updates, and more....

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Making Media Evidence Searchable: Media Forensics With Belkasoft X

Making Media Evidence Searchable: Media Forensics With Belkasoft X

22nd July 2026

Turn thousands of photos, recordings, and videos into searchable evidence with Belkasoft X and offline AI-powered BelkaGPT, helping investigators spend less time on manual review and more time on what matters....read more

Event Recap: Forensics Europe Expo (FEE) 2026

Event Recap: Forensics Europe Expo (FEE) 2026

21st July 2026

From smart doorbells and singing toys to deepfakes and forensic digital twins, Forensics Europe Expo 2026 showed just how quickly digital evidence is evolving; read our full recap for key insights from this year's event....read more

Want To Put An End To Manual Transcribing? Watch S21 Transcriber v2.0 In Action

Want To Put An End To Manual Transcribing? Watch S21 Transcriber v2.0 In Action

16th July 2026

How many investigative hours could your team save with S21 Transcriber v2.0, turning spoken evidence into searchable, reviewable intelligence in seconds?...read more

Oxygen Forensics Used To Teach Students In Capitol Technology University

Oxygen Forensics, a worldwide developer and provider of advanced forensic data examination tools for mobile devices and cloud services, announced today that its flagship product, Oxygen Forensic Detective, is being used by professors teaching digital forensic classes within the BS

Webinar: Methods For Parsing New Applications

Tuesday, March 28 at 1:00PM EST / 10:00AM PST / 5:00PM GMT Wednesday, March 29 at 9:00AM EST / 6:00AM PST / 1:00PM GMT Every day new mobile applications are launched and made available. Often these new apps contain chat

Passware Kit 2017 v2: Supports iOS 10.2, iOS Keychain And iCloud Photo Library

The new version of Passware Kit Forensic recovers passwords for iOS 10.2 iTunes backups, WPA/WPA2 WiFi connections. Instantly extracts passwords stored in iOS Keychain. Acquires images (including deleted ones) from iCloud Photo Library. Improves performance while running on multi-GPU systems

Phill Moore’s Round-Up Of This Month In Forensics

James Habben at 4n6ir explores the SCCM database in two posts, and Mark Mckinnon wrote an Autopsy Plugin to extract the relevant data. Didier Stevens shows how to extract password history from the ntds.dit file. Roberto Rodriguez shows how to

Belkasoft Evidence Center 8.3 Is Out with New UX and 64-bit Edition

Belkasoft rolls out a major usability and performance update to Belkasoft Evidence Center 2017. The new release features brand new layout to simplify common tasks and speed up the routine, and comes with a 64-bit edition that significantly boosts performance

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this month’s round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Do you have any recommendations for image enhancement? Add your suggestions on the forum. Forum members discuss deleted files and allocated space in EnCase. Which job category

Interview With Devon Ackerman, Senior Director, Kroll

Devon, tell us a bit about yourself. What's your background, and what's your current role? My name is Devon Ackerman, and I am currently a Senior Director in Kroll’s Cyber Security and Investigations practice. In this role, I have leadership

Devon Ackerman, Senior Director, Kroll

Devon, tell us a bit about yourself. What's your background, and what's your current role? My name is Devon Ackerman, and I am currently a Senior Director in Kroll’s Cyber Security and Investigations practice. In this role, I have leadership

Unscrambling Pixels: Forensic Science Is Not Forensic Fiction

by Martino Jerian, CEO and Founder, Amped Software In every branch of forensic science, we have to fight with the falsehoods introduced by the popular series à la CSI (hence the properly called CSI effect), but probably this belief is

Magnet AXIOM Now Supports Signal Forensics

Encrypted chat apps can be some of the hardest nuts to crack — especially when someone is trying to cover their tracks in advance — but they can also be vitally important to an investigation. Signal is a popular chat

Unscrambling Pixels: Forensic Science Is Not Forensic Fiction

by Martino Jerian, CEO and Founder, Amped Software  In every branch of forensic science, we have to fight with the falsehoods introduced by the popular series à la CSI (hence the properly called CSI effect), but probably this belief is

Magnet Forensics Portable Case Part Two – How To

In part one of our Portable Case series, our Director of Forensics, Jessica Hyde, took a look at the features and benefits of Portable Case. She highlighted the power of real-time collaboration with multiple stakeholders and having all the feedback

Phill Moore’s Round-Up Of This Month In Forensics

The Forensic 4Cast nominations are open! Vote for your favourite hardware, software, blog, book and more. Mari DeGrazia discusses what happens when Windows lies. Oxygen Forensic Detective has been updated with even more features. Michael on the Digital Forensics Podcast

The Newest Version Of XAMN Spotlight From MSAB Is Coming Soon

Find your answers. Faster, easier and with greater precision. The enhanced XAMN Spotlight will help you attain the pivotal answers you need to make sense of your data – quick, precise, easy to use. This allows investigators, detectives and managers

Magnet AXIOM 1.0.10 Now Lets You Decrypt iOS 10.2 iTunes Backups

New version also includes faster PhotoDNA processing, and support for KakaoTalk and Zalo. Magnet AXIOM 1.0.10 is now available for download!AXIOM 1.0.10 will give users: – Decryption of iOS 10.2 iTunes Backups — We’re always working on giving investigators the