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

Forensic Explorer fast shadow copy access added

Australian software company GetData Forensics adds Volume Shadow Copy analysis to Forensic Explorer. “Volume Shadow Copies are a potential gold mine for the forensic investigator” said GetData Managing Director John Hunter. “Until recent times they have often been overlooked due

Investigating iOS Phone Images, File Dumps and Backups

As of January 2013, Apple announced it had sold over 500 million iOS devices. While iOS seems to be the leading operating system for tablets worldwide, Android continues to be the leading operating system for mobile phones worldwide. Regardless of

Interview with Jim Grady, President, Cellebrite USA

Jim, please tell us a bit about yourself and your background before joining Cellebrite. I´ve been involved in the wireless industry as an executive for over 20 years, both on the carrier side and the vendor side. Prior to Cellebrite,

UK ‘losing fight’ against internet crime, warn MPs

The UK must do more to stop online fraud and deter state-sponsored cyber-espionage or risk losing the fight against e-crime, MPs have warned. The Home Affairs Select Committee said much low-level internet-based financial crime was falling into a “black hole”

Jim Grady, President, Cellebrite USA

Jim, please tell us a bit about yourself and your background before joining Cellebrite. I´ve been involved in the wireless industry as an executive for over 20 years, both on the carrier side and the vendor side. Prior to Cellebrite,

Scientist banned from revealing codes used to start luxury cars

A British-based computer scientist has been banned from publishing an academic paper revealing the secret codes used to start luxury cars including Porsches, Audis, Bentleys and Lamborghinis as it could lead to the theft of millions of vehicles, a judge

UK government to ‘drain the market’ of online child sex abuse

The government plans to “drain the market” of child sexual abuse images online by launching a campaign with the police and internet companies to pursue both the publishers and those who access the material, David Cameron has said. The prime

“Oh no, the suspect ran CCleaner to get rid of the evidence!”

“I recently received a few questions about the effects of running Internet history sanitation tools such as CCleaner, when examining a computer looking for internet related artifacts. CCleaner is freely available online and commonly used to ‘sanitize’ user activity. From

How Important Are Facebook Artifacts?

In March 2013, Facebook reportedly had just over 1 billion users worldwide. Founded in February 2004, it can be considered one of the grandfathers of social networking. Nearly ten years later and even with hundreds of other social networking sites

Digital forensics professionals to get global certification

Non-profit certification body (ISC)² is preparing to launch what it believes is the world’s first qualification designed to assess the skill set of experienced digital forensics professionals. The Certified Cyber Forensics Professional (CCFP) will be launched in 25 September in

CSA to help plug gaps in standards on digital forensics in the cloud

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) announced the formation of a new working group that will closely examine incident handling and forensics in cloud environments. The CSA is a not-for-profit organisation tasked with promoting the use of best practices for providing