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

New Linux Distro for Mobile Security, Malware Analysis, and Forensics

by Jay Turla, a contributor to InfoSec Resources. A new GNU/Linux distribution or distro designed for helping you in every aspect of your mobile forensics, mobile malware analysis, reverse engineering and security testing needs and experience has just been released

Computer Analysts and Experts – Making the Most of GPS Evidence

The many companies that sell software for computer forensics have developed products for analysing satellite navigators. Police high tech crime units and independent laboratories now use this software on an industrial scale. Computer technicians conduct the analyses. This is home

Computer Analysts and Experts – Making the Most of GPS Evidence

by Professor David Last www.professordavidlast.co.uk The many companies that sell software for computer forensics have developed products for analysing satellite navigators. Police high tech crime units and independent laboratories now use this software on an industrial scale. Computer technicians conduct

Will Digital Forensics Crack SSD’s?

by Mike Sheward, a contributor to InfoSec Resources. Digital forensics is one of the most interesting and exciting fields of information security that you can ever be fortunate enough to work in, but not for the reasons you might expect.

Generating computer forensic supertimelines under Linux

When the authors first published this paper, their intentions were to develop a comprehensive guide to digital forensic timelines in order to consolidate the many fragmented sources of information concerning this topic. What they discovered, however, was that quality references

Evernote from a Forensic Investigation Perspective

by Stuart Clarke, Millnet Recently we have been looking at Evernote from a forensic investigation perspective, as we feel it is a great product which will grow in popularity therefore wanted to share some initial findings. While at the 2012

Webinar: Windows 8 Forensics – A First Look

Take a first look at Windows 8 forensics in a webinar presented by Josh Brunty, Assistant Professor of Digital Forensics at Marshall University. Learn about the changes in Windows 8 which forensic examiners should be aware of before this new

Edinburgh Napier University launches cybercrime degree

Edinburgh Napier University is launching a new part-time MSc in Advanced Security and Cybercrime. Aimed at professionals already working in computer security, the master’s course will arm students with the skills to combat a wide range of threats including phishing

Apple phones are AES-tough, says forensics expert

Monday’s Technology Review carries a glowing tribute to Apple iPhone security according to its author, Simson Garfinkel, a contributing editor who works in computer forensics and is highly regarded as a leader in digital forensics. He says Apple has passed

Researchers Show How to Crack Android Encryption

As forensic examiners, some of the last things we want to hear are “encryption” and “enabled” in the same sentence, however that’s what has been happening with the current line of Android devices. Starting with Android 3.0, devices have been

BlackBag and Bright Forensics offer Mac Forensics Training in the UK

Bright Forensics, the UK based company best known for Live Forensics Courses (delivered by Nick Furneaux), is delighted to announce a new partnership with BlackBag Technologies of San Jose, CA. Bright will carry the full range of Mac Forensics solutions

ATC-NY Announces New Computer Forensics Tool – Mem Marshal

ATC-NY’s new forensics tool – Mem Marshal™ 1.0 – is a user-friendly, automated memory analysis system that assists and automates computer forensic investigations of volatile memory (RAM) images. Mem Marshal enables computer forensic investigators to analyze and effectively make use

Forensic Examination of FrostWire version 5

As digital forensic practitioners, we are faced regularly with users utilizing the internet to swop and download copyrighted and contraband material. Peer to peer (P2P) applications are commonly used for this purpose, and like any software application, they are ever

Forensics in a Digital Age – Tool Helps Police Track Tech Trails

Computer forensic analysts worldwide use the Internet Evidence Finder tool to find Internet-related evidence on computers. In today’s digital world, we sometimes forget that the things we type online are never truly erased. And even though this information is buried