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

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

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

Mobile Phone Forensic Challenges

Introduction A great number of the mobile phones used worldwide every second require special knowledge and skills from forensic experts.  More often it is not enough to be an experienced expert in computer forensics to understand all the peculiarities and

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