19th August 2025

UPCOMING WEBINAR – Retail Under Siege: Fighting Back Against Ransomware With Next-Gen Forensics
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Retailers face rising cyber threats—join Exterro's Sept 4 webinar to learn fast, modern forensic response strategies and protect your brand....

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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

Enterprise Turns To AI For Speed And Accuracy In DFIR

Enterprise Turns To AI For Speed And Accuracy In DFIR

14th August 2025

Magnet Forensics explores how AI is revolutionizing speed and accuracy in DFIR....read more

Breaking Digital Barriers: Galaxy S25 & Z Flip Fully Supported

Breaking Digital Barriers: Galaxy S25 & Z Flip Fully Supported

14th August 2025

Gain full filesystem access to the latest Samsung Galaxy devices with MD-NEXT....read more

Cyber crime: First online murder will happen by end of year, warns US firm

Governments are ill-prepared to combat the looming threat of “online murder” as cyber criminals exploit internet technology to target victims, the European policing agency warned. In its most alarming assessment of the physical danger posed by online crime, Europol said

Inside the Homeland Security Investigations Computer Forensics Lab

Nearly every case Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) opens has some sort of digital evidence to be collected and analyzed. But the work can’t be done by just anyone. The data must be meticulously cared for by agents trained to preserve

Devices being remotely wiped in police custody

All the data on some of the tablets and phones seized as evidence is being wiped out, remotely, while they are in police custody, the BBC has learned. Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Durham police all told BBC News handsets had

Can You Get That License Plate?

We find ourselves analyzing new surveillance videos almost every day, and in most cases we can either solve the problem very quickly or understand (even quicker) that there is no information to recover in the video. In special cases though,

How to Recover Deleted Data with Oxygen Forensic SQLite Viewer

Oxygen Forensics has released a stand-alone Oxygen Forensic SQLite Viewer, enabling forensic experts to view and export information stored by system and third-party mobile applications. The tool enables access to deleted SQLite records, and lays out the content of SQLite

Can You Get That License Plate?

We find ourselves analyzing new surveillance videos almost every day, and in most cases we can either solve the problem very quickly or understand (even quicker) that there is no information to recover in the video. In special cases though,

Using Dynamic App Finder to Recover More Mobile Artifacts

Data recovered from mobile chat apps is critical to many forensic investigations. However, with thousands of mobile chat apps in use today and a steady stream of new apps emerging, identifying, recovering and analyzing mobile chat data has become a

Interview with Stuart Clarke, Director of Cybersecurity, Nuix

Stuart, please tell us more about your role as Director of Cybersecurity and Investigation Services at Nuix. My role covers three main areas: product development, support and training, and advisory to the United Nations’ International Telecommunications Unit (ITU). Having used

Stuart Clarke, Director of Cybersecurity and Investigation Services, Nuix

Stuart, please tell us more about your role as Director of Cybersecurity and Investigation Services at Nuix. My role covers three main areas: product development, support and training, and advisory to the United Nations’ International Telecommunications Unit (ITU). Having used

What cops need to know about Apple’s iOS 8 lockout

In mid-September, Apple rolled out iOS 8 for users of the more recent models of the iPhone, iPad, and Mac computers. Among many changes was a statement from Apple CEO Tim Cook that Apple would no longer assist law enforcement

How To Decrypt WeChat EnMicroMsg.db Database?

WeChat is a smartphone application where users can chat with their friends, share pictures, videos and audio chats. Users can also make free video calls and voice calls with their friends as long as they have Internet connection. Recently, we

Learn How To Recover Vital Artifacts from BlackBerry Messenger

BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) was the original mobile messaging application, geared towards business users and productive consumers. Originally available only on BlackBerry devices, BBM has since gone cross-platform and is now accessible to Android and iOS users. While consumer interest in

A guide to RegRipper and the art of timeline building

I have often heard RegRipper mentioned on forums and websites and how it was supposed to make examining event logs, registry files and other similar files a breeze. RegRipper is developed and maintained by Harlan Carvey, who is the author

A guide to RegRipper and the art of timeline building

Background I have often heard RegRipper mentioned on forums and websites and how it was supposed to make examining event logs, registry files and other similar files a breeze (the event logs and the other files isn’t per say examined