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

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Forensic acquisition of a secure boot enabled Fujitsu laptop – what is the best method? Forum members discuss why a Windows 7 MBR system may be unable to

Windows Forensics and Security

By Adrian Leon Mare www.ExpertDataForensics.com The world we live in today is a technologically advanced world. While on one hand, commercialization of IT (Information technology) revolutionized our modern day lifestyle, it has raised a big question mark about the confidentiality

HMIC report highlights concern over cybercrime plans

Three out of 43 police forces in England and Wales have a comprehensive plan to deal with a large-scale cyber-attack, a report has found. Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) warned only Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and West Midlands had sufficient plans

CSI IT: Forensic security skills for IT professionals

TV shows such as CSI have popularised the world of digital forensics, glamorising the field and piquing the interest of a generation of graduates and career-movers, writes Kevin Waugh. Because of this, it would be natural to assume that most

Real-Time Data Acquisition with Oxygen Forensic Extractor

Oxygen Forensics releases Oxygen Forensic Extractor enabling data acquisition from several thousand mobile devices. The new toolkit enables OEM manufacturers to build real-time data acquisition systems for law enforcement and forensic customers. The new toolkit implements Oxygen’s know-how on extracting

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Forum members discuss OSINT training and their experiences with the courses. Is it possible to extract a single video file from a cell phone? Chime in on the

Accelerating Investigations Using Advanced eDiscovery Techniques

Presenters: Paul Slater, Director of Forensic Solutions EMEA, Nuix and Ady Cassidy, Director of Investigation Solution Consultancy – Global, Nuix Join the forum discussion here.View the webinar on YouTube here.Read a full transcript of the webinar here. Transcript Paul Slater:

Michael Kohn, Computer Science Graduate, University of Pretoria

Michael, you’ve recently completed an MSc in Computer Science at the University of Pretoria. What made you choose this as a field of study? I have been interested in Information Technology and Law for quite some time. I know that

Armstrong and digital forensics: Right under our noses

Yesterday, the entire Chatham County Commission visited Armstrong Atlantic State University’s Cyber Forensics Labs, a unit in the campus police department. I too have had the opportunity to tour this unique facility as part of a broader introduction to the

Has the NSA’s mass spying made life easier for digital criminals?

Thousands of the world’s security professionals, mostly of them middle-aged white males, gathered in San Francisco last week for the annual RSA Conference. Traditionally, it’s the time of year vendors hawk their gear in halls containing a perturbing whiff of