21st August 2025

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Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 20 2025

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 20 2025

20th August 2025

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....read more

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

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

Magnet Forensics Adds Mobile Device Support with IEF Advanced v6.1

Building on our commitment to assist thousands of customers, in the world’s top law enforcement, military, government and corporate organizations, recover data from a broad range of Internet-related communications, Magnet Forensics has launched a new edition of its industry-leading forensic

Catching the ghost: how to discover ephemeral evidence with live RAM analysis

Until very recently, it was a standard practice for European law enforcement agencies to approach running computers with a “pull-the-plug” attitude without recognizing the amount of evidence lost with the content of the computer’s volatile memory. While certain information never

Nuix Appoints Paul Slater as Director of Forensic Solutions

Nuix has appointed Paul Slater as Director of Forensic Solutions. Slater brings to the role nearly 20 years’ experience in investigations, digital forensics and electronic disclosure as a police officer and consultant. Slater started his career in forensic technology as

Catching the ghost: how to discover ephemeral evidence with Live RAM analysis

Oleg Afonin and Yuri Gubanov, contact@belkasoft.com © Belkasoft Research, 2013 Belkador Dali. “Losing volatile Evidence”. All rights reserved.  Ephemeral Evidence Until very recently, it was a standard practice for European law enforcement agencies to approach running computers with a “pull-the-plug”

Webinar: Internet Evidence Finder (IEF) Advanced Edition v6.1

A new webinar recorded by Lance Mueller of Magnet Forensics introducing Internet Evidence Finder (IEF) Advanced Edition v6.1 can now be viewed here. Lance gives a hands-on demonstration of how to recover Internet evidence, including deleted data, from iOS &

Internet Evidence Finder (IEF) Advanced Edition v6.1

Presenter: Lance Mueller, Director of Forensics, Magnet Forensics Join the forum discussion here.View the webinar on YouTube here.Read a full transcript of the webinar here. Transcript Welcome everyone. This is Lance Mueller at Magnet Forensics. Today, I am very excited

AccessData Introduces Forensic Toolkit (FTK) 5

AccessData announces the release of Forensic Toolkit (FTK) 5. With this major release, AccessData brings an even faster and more comprehensive FTK capable of exposing more data in less time. FTK 5 includes data visualization and explicit image detection (EID)

David Cowen and Lance Mueller talk digital forensics and IEF

Lance Mueller (Magnet Forensics) recently attended CEIC in Orlando, Florida and had the opportunity to meet David Cowen from G-C Partners, LLC. It was great to finally put a face to a name that he has known for some time

NSA taps in to user data of Facebook, Apple, Google and others

The National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants, according to a top secret document obtained by the Guardian. The NSA access is part of a previously undisclosed program

Nuix and Cellebrite announce technology partnership

Nuix, a worldwide provider of information management technologies, and Cellebrite, a global provider of mobile data extraction, decoding and analysis solutions, announced they have formed a technology partnership to leverage their complementary strengths in mobile forensics, investigation and eDiscovery. The

Forensic Focus (Part Time) Editorial Assistant Vacancy

Forensic Focus is seeking a part-time editorial assistant to help with various aspects of running the site (with a particular focus on planning and adding new content). The role is likely to involve tasks such as identifying/contacting potential interviewees, writing