14th August 2025

Enterprise Turns To AI For Speed And Accuracy In DFIR
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Magnet Forensics explores how AI is revolutionizing speed and accuracy in DFIR....

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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

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 13 2025

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 13 2025

13th August 2025

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....read more

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

Epiq Systems Releases Research on US, European eDiscovery Readiness

Epiq Systems, Inc. has released a new research report focused on eDiscovery readiness of U.S. and European companies. The report, entitled “When the Regulator Calls,” is based on a survey of more than 2,000 corporations across sectors including aerospace, banking

Flame malware makers send ‘suicide’ code

The creators of the Flame malware have sent a “suicide” command that removes it from some infected computers. Security firm Symantec caught the command using booby-trapped computers set up to watch Flame’s actions. The “suicide” command was “designed to completely

Facebook forced into revealing identities of cyberbullies

A mother has won court backing to force Facebook to reveal the identities of cyberbullies who targeted her with a string of abusive messages on the website. Nicola Brookes, 45, was granted a high court order after receiving “vicious and

Michigan Supreme Court won’t intervene in email case, urges review

The Michigan Supreme Court won’t intervene in an Oakland County case of a man charged with getting access to his estranged wife’s email but conservative and liberal justices believe lawmakers should consider fine-tuning the law. Leon Walker was charged with

The Role of Cyber Terrorism in the Future

By Michael Chance University of New Haven M.S. National Security ABSTRACT Since the events of September 11, 2001 terrorism has been an issue at the forefront of National Security.  This paper will explore the more specific threat of cyberterrorism that

DFCB Announces Q2 Deadline for Applications

The Digital Forensics Certification Board (DFCB) has announced that its next application deadline for its Digital Forensics Certified Practitioner (DFCP) designation is June 1, 2012. The DFCB currently accepts applications four times a year. To obtain detailed certification information and

SANS announces digital forensics training event in Europe

SANS is launching its first dedicated digital forensics training event in Prague in October offering a full immersion experience over a 7 day event combining leading experts’ presentations and four in-depth IT forensics courses. The new format will kick-off 7

Bredolab Bot Herder Gets 4 Years for 30 Million Infections

Armenia handed down its first computer crime sentence on Tuesday with punishment of the mastermind behind the Bredolab botnet. A district court sentenced 27-year-old Georgy Avanesov, a Russian citizen of Armenian descent, to four years in prison on charges of

Cutting eDiscovery Costs with Smarter Tools and Smart Scope

Mention eDiscovery (or electronic discovery) in the litigation marketplace and you will hear a lot of oaning and groaning from judges and attorneys alike; the process has, without doubt, significantly added to the cost of litigation, as well as being

Fergus Ewing named ‘cyber minister’ to tackle Scottish computer crime

Enterprise Minister Fergus Ewing is to be responsible for the Scottish Government’s new plan to improve cyber security. The announcement came at the eCrime Scotland summit in Edinburgh. Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill told delegates it was vital to tackle the

Recovering Cloud-Based Evidence with Internet Evidence Finder

Internet Evidence Finder (IEF) from JADsoftware now supports the recovery of evidence from Cloud services. IEF v5.5 supports the recovery of cloud-based evidence from computer hard drives and live memory. Initial support includes popular cloud storage services Dropbox, Google Docs,

Mike’s Forensic Tools Updates

Updates to MFT Stampede and MFT Hex Chomper to include more available time and date types, and a re-write of MFT Salt in Python. MFT Stampede is a time stamp conversion tool, which will try and convert the entered value

Met Police to extract suspects’ mobile phone data

The Metropolitan Police has implemented a system to extract mobile phone data from suspects held in custody. The data includes call history, texts and contacts, and the BBC has learned that it will be retained regardless of whether any charges

Lima Forensic Case Management new release – CEIC 2012

IntaForensics are attending CEIC 2012 Nevada, showcasing the newest release of the most advanced and configurable Digital Forensic management solution, Lima Forensic Case Management v1.3.9. The new version due for release July 2012 has many new exciting features, such as

Interview with John Patzakis, Founder and CEO of X1 Discovery

John, the last time you were interviewed at Forensic Focus you were the Vice Chairman and Chief Legal Officer at Guidance Software. Now you’re the founder and CEO of X1 Discovery – tell us about that move. I am proud