11th June 2026

Amped Podcast Episode 1 – CCTV Nightmares: Chain Of Custody Secrets From Scene To Courtroom
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Lucy Carey-Shields and Blake Sawyer from Amped Software sit down to talk about CCTV nightmares and protecting the chain of custody from scene to courtroom....

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What’s Really Slowing Your Extractions? (Hint: Not Your Tools)

What’s Really Slowing Your Extractions? (Hint: Not Your Tools)

11th June 2026

In digital forensics, the wrong cable can turn a phone extraction from minutes into hours — Alex Coley explains why bandwidth labels are only part of the story in MSAB’s latest blog....read more

Present At Magnet User Summit & Magnet Virtual Summit 2027!

Present At Magnet User Summit & Magnet Virtual Summit 2027!

11th June 2026

Share your digital investigation insights at Magnet Virtual Summit or Magnet User Summit 2027 — submit your proposal by August 28, 2026....read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, June 10 2026

Digital Forensics Round-Up, June 10 2026

10th June 2026

Read the latest DFIR news – SANS’ AI framework for DFIR, psychological risks for analysts, AI-generated CSAM in U.S. courts, Perceptor’s open-source investigation platform, and more....read more

Hague issues warning about global cybercrime danger

It has never been easier to become a cybercriminal, Foreign Secretary William Hague is to warn an international conference in Budapest. He will tell delegates that cybercrime is “one of the greatest global and strategic challenges of our time.” The

5 Steps to Ensure Your Cloud Provider Is Ready for Ediscovery

Identifying, retrieving, and producing electronically stored information (ESI) in response to a subpoena can be a time-consuming and costly business. Processing just one gigabyte of data in response to an electronic discovery (ediscovery) request can cost at least $30,000, according

Cyber forensics to the fore

The goal of computer forensics is to examine digital media in a forensically sound manner with the aim of identifying, preserving, recovering, analysing and presenting facts and opinions about the information. Most often associated with the investigation of a wide

Fighting crime in the computer age

Technology is changing at a dizzying pace, and law enforcement officers are having trouble keeping up. New smartphones are being released constantly. Tablets like the iPad are replacing laptop computers. Almost everybody – including those who break the law –

XRY v6.3.2 released

Micro Systemation just released XRY v6.3.2 This version includes: – The ability to bypass a complex passcode on some iOS devices– Full support for the new Apple operating system iOS6– A new RAM disk extraction method for iOS devices– Logical

Philip Anderson, Northumbria University

Philip, can you tell us something about your background and why you decided to teach digital forensics? I graduated from Northumbria University with a BSc (Hons) in Business Information Technology in 1997 and gained an MSc in Distance Education with

Android Forensics

Smartphones are changing the IT and Communication landscape vastly.  A Smartphone can do almost every good thing a computer can do. Today most of the corporate employee access and manage their official emails through the e-mail client installed on their

Collecting and Processing Bloomberg Data

A few years ago, Bloomberg data may have been relatively unusual, however today we see Bloomberg chat and email data being collected quite frequently. Not a surprise really considering some of the headlines relating to certain Banks and Financial institutions

IEF Adds Webpage Re-building and Support for iOS Backups in Latest Upgrade

With a strong commitment to helping thousands of its customers in the world’s top law enforcement, military, government and corporate organizations retrieve Internet-related communications from a broad range of artifacts, Magnet Forensics (formerly JADsoftware) has unveiled v5.6 of its industry-leading

Digital forensics: proactive or reactive?

For a number of years digital forensics has referred to ‘the application of computer investigation and analysis techniques to gather evidence suitable for presentation in a court of law’. While collecting this digital evidence, to be used retrospectively in subsequent

IPOD – Timestamps secrets

ABSTRACT This is a description how the Apple Ipod/Iphone stores the timestamps into their plist files. After an experiment we tried to order the various ways that Apple Idevices manage and store these data. We found the timestamps into PlayCounts.plist