20th August 2025

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....

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

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

20th August 2025

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

19th August 2025

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

18th August 2025

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

Forensics Europe Expo 2015 – Recap

This article is a recap of some of the main highlights of the Forensics Europe Expo (FEE) held in Kensington Olympia, London, on the 21st and 22nd of April 2015. Expo Highlights As an event that focuses on all aspects

Forensics Europe Expo 2015 – Recap

This article is a recap of some of the main highlights of the Forensics Europe Expo (FEE) held in Kensington Olympia, London, on the 21st and 22nd of April 2015. Expo Highlights As an event that focuses on all aspects

Hex & Text Viewer Added to Magnet IEF

Every forensic examiner is familiar with hex and text viewers; they are the cornerstone of the most basic forensic examination. If all your tools and scripts fail or don’t support a given artifact, you can always fall back to a

Discover More Than 100 Mobile Artifacts with Evidence Center v.7.2

Belkasoft extends support for mobile applications in the new v.7.2 of its Belkasoft Evidence Center. In addition to more than half a thousand artifacts found inside desktop and laptop computers, which the software was able to analyze before, the new

Interview with Liwei Ren, Scientific Advisor, Trend Micro

Liwei, you're Scientific Advisor at Trend Micro. Could you tell our readers a bit about your role, and what an average day looks like? I have multiple responsibilities. Internally, I work with a few R&D teams as an adviser for

Liwei Ren, Scientific Advisor, Trend Micro

Liwei, you're Scientific Advisor at Trend Micro. Could you tell our readers a bit about your role, and what an average day looks like? I have multiple responsibilities. Internally, I work with a few R&D teams as an adviser for

Magnet Forensics Releases Magnet IEF v6.6

Magnet Forensics, the global leader in the development of digital forensics software that recovers evidence from computers, smartphones and tablets, announced today the release of Magnet IEF v6.6. This release adds a number of new and advanced analysis features to

Capturing RAM Dumps and Imaging eMMC Storage on Windows Tablets

While Windows desktops and laptops are relatively easy to acquire, the same cannot be said about portable Windows devices such as tablets and convertibles (devices with detachable keyboards). Having no FireWire ports and supplied with a limited set of external

Capturing RAM Dumps and Imaging eMMC Storage on Windows Tablets

Oleg Afonin, Danil Nikolaev, Yuri Gubanov © Belkasoft Research 2015 While Windows desktops and laptops are relatively easy to acquire, the same cannot be said about portable Windows devices such as tablets and convertibles (devices with detachable keyboards). Having no

BitLocker experience (forum discussion)

Thought I'd share a recent experience. I'm an internal corporate resource in a team of one (i.e. me). We had to get images of a number of Win7 Enterprise machines, some from "close by" and some from another continent. Corporate

Interview with Mary Aiken, Cyberpsychologist, RSCI

Mary, you're currently Professor and Director at the RCSI's CyberPsychology Research Centre. Tell us a bit about your role and what a typical day looks like. I am a CyberPsychologist and Director of the RCSI CyberPsychology Research Centre, I am

Mary Aiken, Cyberpsychologist, RSCI

Mary, you're currently Professor and Director at the RCSI's CyberPsychology Research Centre. Tell us a bit about your role and what a typical day looks like. I am a CyberPsychologist and Director of the RCSI CyberPsychology Research Centre, I am

TDFCon 2015 – Middlesbrough 15th May

On May 15th 2015, Forensic Focus will be attending TDFCon – the Teesside Digital Forensics Conference – at Teesside University, Middlesbrough. If there are any topics you would like us to cover in-depth, or if there are any speakers you

Nominate Your Peers! Secure View Gives Back

In honor of Thursday’s release of Secure View 4, Susteen will be donating Four free Secure View kits to Law Enforcement agencies in need. Secure View Advanced Mobile Forensic software can acquire data from thousands of phones with industry leading

TDFCon 2015 – Middlesbrough 15th May

On May 15th 2015, Forensic Focus will be attending TDFCon – the Teesside Digital Forensics Conference – at Teesside University, Middlesbrough. If there are any topics you would like us to cover in-depth, or if there are any speakers you