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

Magnet Forensics Expands Support in EMEA

Waterloo, ON., March 4, 2015 – Magnet Forensics is pleased to introduce Carl Tinker as the new Business Development & Channel Manager for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). Carl joins the Magnet team to provide focused support for

Secure View Mobile Forensics and Belkasoft Announce Partnership

Susteen Inc, and Belkasoft are happy to announce their new partnership. This partnership will allow respective users of both Susteen’s Secure View cell phone forensic software and Belkasoft's computer forensic software to receive discounts on each other’s offerings. Both companies

Oxygen Forensics turns 15!

We are celebrating our 15th anniversary and want to invite you to be a part of it!We would be more than happy if you share your story with us. We have written a rich history together, and we want to

Vladimir Katalov, CEO, Elcomsoft

Vladimir, please tell us about your role as CEO of ElcomSoft. What does your day-to-day work entail? To be honest, “CEO” does not actually reflect what I am doing. I’m taking care of quite a lot of things: strategic development,

Head replacement tools from HddSurgery

Introduction to head replacement process Head replacement process refers to the process of replacing defective HDD heads with the heads from identical and functional hard disk drive. This process must be performed in order to recover data from disks that

Exam Outline For CCFP Digital Forensics Certification Available for Download

The Certified Cyber Forensics Professional (CCFP) certification is the only global cyber forensics credential that provides a comprehensive validation of a candidate’s knowledge and skills as a digital forensics expert. Developed by (ISC)2, a leader in the information security certification

Forensic examination of SQLite Write Ahead Log (WAL) files

I am sure that you are aware that when an SQLite database is opened if there is an associated WAL (Write Ahead Log) file then the pages in this WAL are automatically written to the main database, thus overwriting records,

Belkasoft Adds Forensic Support for Windows Phone 8.1

Belkasoft updates its digital forensic solution, Belkasoft Evidence Center 2015, with the ability to perform forensic analysis of Windows Phone 8.1 images acquired via JTAG flashers and Cellebrite UFED hardware. The new release enables automated extraction, discovery and analysis of

IEF Artifact Updates Have Become a More Frequent Thing

To stay on top of the rapidly evolving app landscape (and ensure IEF users continue to find as much digital evidence as possible in their investigations), the Magnet Forensics team has started to release more frequent artifact updates, adding to

AccessData MPE+ 5.5.6 has been released

MPE+ 5.5.6 has been released featuring a new simpler installation process as well as new analysis and reporting capabilities. Some of the new features include: Analysis You can now select files in both the media and the carved view to

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Is there an MFT equivalent for EXT or HFS filesystems? Forum members discuss how to get started with Snapchat forensics. Which is the best programming language to learn

Forensic Analysis of SQLite Databases

SQLite is a widely popular database format that is used extensively pretty much everywhere. Both iOS and Android employ SQLite as a storage format of choice, with built-in and third-party applications relying on SQLite to keep their data. A wide

Job Vacancy: Snr. Computer Forensic Analyst, Oxfordshire, UK

This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Computer Forensic Analyst / Digital Forensic Analyst to join our fantastic new Digital Forensics Team. The successful candidate will report to the Digital Forensics Manager, and will be responsible for managing and