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

Dealing with Data Encryption in Criminal Cases

Over the last several years, I’ve posted a handful of short blog entries about the topic of compelling a criminal defendant to surrender a passphrase to an encrypted volume or hard-drive. These entries concern the three cases of re Grand

BlackBag Technologies Announces BlackLight™ 2012 R1 Release

BlackBag Technologies, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of BlackLight 2012 R1, a comprehensive iPhone, iPad, and Mac OS X forensic analysis tool. This latest release gives examiners additional ways to identify and locate important forensic evidence within large data

Dealing with Data Encryption in Criminal Cases

Introduction Over the last several years, I’ve posted a handful of short blog entries about the topic of compelling a criminal defendant to surrender a passphrase to an encrypted volume or hard-drive.  These entries concern the three cases of re

X-Ways Forensics v16.4 released

What’s new in v16.4? Performance A 64-bit edition of X-Ways Forensics and of the special WinHex version for licensed users of X-Ways Forensics is now available. You can simply add it to an installation of the 32-bit edition of X-Ways

XRY v6.2 Physical Released

Micro Systemation has just released its latest XRY forensic pack v6.2. The release includes enhanced physical extraction support for iOS & Android Devices, plus China Clone phones. One of the key new features is up to 4x faster dumping and

Belkasoft extends free license offer by two weeks

Belkasoft is extending their free license offer for two more weeks, offering free 6-month licenses for Evidence Center 2012 to eligible forensic and educational organizations. You may now get this product absolutely free, according to the offer at http://forensic.belkasoft.com/en/bec/en/free_evidence_center_for_le.asp, which

AccessData FTK 4.0: initial impressions

In this post, I will provide some initial impressions and findings. I do not endeavor to write a white paper, or to employ an industry standard, scientific methodology to evaluating the tool (if for no other reason than because I

Firefox Cache Format and Extraction

In the forensic lab where I work, we frequently investigate malware-infected workstations. As our user population started shifting from Internet Explorer to Firefox, we observed that one of our favorite forensic tools, Kristinn Gudjonsson’s log2timeline, wasn’t able to provide as

Forensics PhD studentship at Glasgow Caledonian University

Glasgow Caledonian University Interactive and Trustworthy Technologies Research Group are looking for PhD students. Projects are eligible for funded Glasgow Caledonian University PhD Scholarships. The scholarship covers Home/EU tuition fees and a stipend of £14,600 per annum for three years.

AccessData FTK 4.0: initial impressions

Introduction In this post, I will provide some initial impressions and findings.  I do not  endeavor to write a white paper, or to employ an industry standard, scientific methodology to evaluating the tool (if for no other reason than because

Interview with Jad Saliba, Founder and CTO, JADsoftware

Jad, can you tell us something about your background and how you became involved in digital forensics? It all started when I was a teenager and first got exposed to computers and software. I immediately was drawn to understanding how

Jad Saliba, Founder and CTO, JADsoftware

Jad, can you tell us something about your background and how you became involved in digital forensics? It all started when I was a teenager and first got exposed to computers and software. I immediately was drawn to understanding how

IAAC: Digital Evidence, Digital Investigation and E-Disclosure

Organisations and individuals currently have little idea how to collect and preserve evidence from computers and the Internet. As a result criminal prosecutions become difficult, businesses fail to get redress in the civil courts or are unable to make proper

Firefox Cache Format and Extraction

Introduction In the forensic lab where I work, we frequently investigate malware-infected workstations.  As our user population started shifting from Internet Explorer to Firefox, we observed that one of our favorite forensic tools, Kristinn Gudjonsson’s log2timeline, wasn’t able to provide

Belkasoft Offers Free Licenses to Law Enforcement and Academia

Effective immediately, Belkasoft will be issuing free licenses to its flagship forensic product, Belkasoft Evidence Center 2012. Eligible government and law enforcement agencies worldwide will qualify for a one time free six-month license of its Evidence Center Pro edition. In

Italy police break up global online pedophile network

Italian police have broken up a pedophile network spanning at least 28 countries that used social media websites to swap pornographic images and videos of child abuse. Ten people have been arrested in Italy, the United States, France and Portugal,