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

Nigeria Hosts Sub-Regional Conference On Digital, Computer Forensics

The first digital and computer forensics conference in West Africa is to hold from April 18 – 20, 2012 in Abuja, says the Computer Forensics Institute Nigeria (CFIN). President of the council, Dr. Peter Olu Olayiwola, who announced this in

How Forensics Claims Facebook Ownership Contract Is ‘Forged’

Hoping to blast away a lawsuit with digital science, Facebook asked a federal judge Monday to dismiss a long-running case brought by New York resident Paul Ceglia who claims he owns half of the social networking site. Ever since Ceglia

One in three lawyers plan increased e-discovery spending

Spending by organizations on electronic discovery-related services grew in 2011 and should continue to increase through 2013, new research from Robert Half Legal eDiscovery Services indicates. Nearly one-quarter (23 percent) of lawyers interviewed said their law firms and corporate legal

Vault Brings eDiscovery Tools to Google Apps

Businesses generate and consume massive amounts of email and instant messaging communications. For many businesses, all of that data has to be preserved, and produced on demand in the event of litigation. Google has introduced Google Apps Vault–a new service

BlackBag Technologies, Inc. Opens East Coast Office

BlackBag Technologies, Inc., a leading developer of Mac OS X, iPhone, and iPad forensics software and training solutions, today announced the opening of its second U.S. office in Herndon, Virginia. The new office allows BlackBag to efficiently extend its reach

Exploded Car for Digital Forensics Students Tutorial

University forensics students sift through exploded car to find digital data for use in mock trial (YouTube Video) <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/x4oRotwAukY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Forensic snoops: It doesn’t take a Genius to break into an iPhone

Forensic tools against smartphones allow basic 4-digit phone passcodes to be bypassed in minutes. However, more complex passcodes are far more difficult to defeat and might even leave some information of seized Androids or iPhones outside the range of many

CCL-Forensics upgrades epilog

The research and development team at CCL-Forensics have upgraded the digital forensic software tool, epilog. Following comments and suggestions from epilog users, the team has made a number of changes, as well as adding new features. The upgrade improves the

EnCase® Forensic version 7.03 Now Available

Guidance Software Inc. has announced the availability of EnCase® Forensic version 7.03. The new software now includes a stand-alone evidence processor that increases forensic processing capacity because it doesn’t tie up an EnCase Forensic license. With the separate EnCase processor,

2012 Forensic 4cast Awards

Voting for the 2012 Forensic 4cast Awards is now open. Each year the Forensic 4cast Awards aim to celebrate and recognize those in the field of digital forensics who dedicate themselves to making our lives a little easier. The whole

Belkasoft integrates with Encase v.7

Belkasoft has released v.3.8 of their flagship product, Evidence Center 2012, featuring Encase v.7 integration. The integration module is free for existing customers. More details on v.3.8 here.

SubRosaSoft.com Inc. Releases MacLockPick 3.0

SubRosaSoft.com Inc. announces the newest version of their cross-platform live digital forensic field tool, MacLockPick 3.0. The new version offers improvements in iOS support, the addition of file and meta tag filters, upgraded application support, and more. MacLockPick 3.0 exploits

Logicube Integrates EDEC’s Tarantula; Targets Chinese Chipsets

Logicube® Inc. and EDEC™ Digital Forensics have announced a technology partnership to integrate EDEC’s Tarantula™ into Logicube’s CellXtract® cell phone forensic platform. “We are very excited about our partnership with EDEC,” commented Farid Emrani, Executive Vice President and COO of

Overcoming Legal Challenges to the Authentication of Social Media Evidence

Social media evidence is highly relevant to most legal disputes and broadly discoverable, but challenges lie in evidentiary authentication without best practices technology and processes. This whitepaper examines these challenges faced by eDiscovery practitioners and investigators and illustrates best practices

Overcoming Potential Legal Challenges to the Authentication of Social Media Evidence

By John Patzakis1 Summary: Social media evidence is highly relevant to most legal disputes and broadly discoverable, but challenges lie in evidentiary authentication without best practices technology and processes. This whitepaper examines these challenges faced by eDiscovery practitioners and investigators