13th August 2025

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 13 2025
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Read the latest DFIR news – evidence of Kohberger’s detailed murder preparations, an alarming rise in child sextortion cases, Brian Carrier’s new mini-course on automation and AI in forensics, and more....

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Well-Being In Digital Forensics And Policing: Insights From Hannah Bailey

Well-Being In Digital Forensics And Policing: Insights From Hannah Bailey

12th August 2025

Hannah Bailey shares her journey from frontline policing to founding Blue Light Wellbeing, explaining why culturally-aware mental health support is crucial for DFIs and frontline workers....read more

Oxygen Tech Bytes In July 2025

Oxygen Tech Bytes In July 2025

12th August 2025

Level up your DFIR skills in under 20 minutes with Oxygen Tech Bytes’ expert-led, on-demand webinars....read more

Neal Ysart, Co-Founder, The Coalition Of Cyber Investigators

Neal Ysart, Co-Founder, The Coalition Of Cyber Investigators

11th August 2025

Neal Ysart shares how The Coalition of Cyber Investigators tackles OSINT integrity, complex investment fraud, and the rise of AI-driven scams....read more

EuroForensics 2013: 4th International Forensic Sciences Conference & Exhibition

Euroforensics 2013: 4th International Forensic Sciences, Cyber Security and Surveillance Technologies Conference & Exhibition takes place in Harbiye Military Museum Istanbul, Turkey 27-29 March 2013. The 4th Euroforensics has been designed as the primary international conference and exhibition for sourcing

BlackBag Technologies Announces BlackLight(R) 2013 R1 Forensic Software Release

BlackBag Technologies, Inc. has announced the immediate availability of BlackLight 2013 R1, a comprehensive iPhone, iPad, and Mac OS X forensic analysis tool. This latest release includes a timeline feature that displays device usage and communications chronologically, and adds Windows

Nuix 4.2 upgrade delivers toolset for large-scale digital investigations

Nuix has released version 4.2 of its investigation software. New digital forensics capabilities in this release round out Nuix’s investigative feature set, making it an essential tool for any government or private-sector organization needing to complete large-scale investigations efficiently and

Phones Can Be Searched If No Password Lock: Ontario Court

Ontario’s highest court has signalled that the right of police officers to look through someone’s phone depends on whether there’s a password. The Court of Appeal for Ontario says it’s all right for police to have a cursory look through

Reconnoitre from Sanderson Forensics updated

Sanderson Forensics are pleased to announce an update to our most recent software tool Reconnoitre. Reconnoitre allows the forensic investigator to quickly and easily investigate images containing volume shadow copies, without the need to run VSSAdmin. This latest version adds

New Free Tool: Decrypting the Dropbox filecache.dbx file

Republished from the MagnetForensics.com blog by Jad Saliba, Founder & CTO of Magnet Forensics (formerly JADsoftware) I would like to introduce a new free tool we’ve just released to the forensics community called Dropbox® Decryptor. But first, some background. Dropbox

Belkasoft Offers Free and Easy Way to Save Facebook Information

Belkasoft has released Facebook Profile Saver, a free tool to capture information publicly available in Facebook profiles. This tiny tool is aimed at computer forensic and security specialists who need to automate the downloading of Facebook pages for offline analysis.

EuroForensics 2013: 4th International Forensic Conference & Exhibition

Euroforensics 2013: 4th International Forensic Sciences, Cyber Security and Surveillance Technologies Conference & Exhibition takes place in Harbiye Military Museum Istanbul, Turkey 27-29 March 2013. The 4th Euroforensics has been designed as the primary international conference and exhibition for sourcing

Empower Frontline Personnel & Combat Forensic Backlogs With IEF FRONTLINE

With a strong commitment to helping 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 (formerly JADsoftware) has launched a new forensic software tool:

University of Illinois shaping curriculum to train digital sleuths

As the field of cybersecurity, which can include police officers, private investigators and government officials, is expected to grow in the coming years, a diverse team at the University of Illinois has begun to shape a curriculum to train future

New committee formed to develop eDiscovery process standards

A 66-year-old governing body with 162 member nations that deal with a wide range of issues has announced that they are forming a new committee who will have the task of developing standards for eDiscovery processes. The International Standards Organisation

Interview with Robert Bond, Product Marketing Manager, Guidance Software

Robert, please tell us a little about yourself and your role at Guidance Software I’m the new Product Marketing Manager of Forensic Solutions which includes EnCase Forensic, Encase Portable and Tableau products. I have been in marketing for over 15