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

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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

Brazilian Digital Forensics Lab Fights Faked Evidence

The question whether a photo showing you pulling off a mask after robbing a bank is real or fake may decide if you go to jail or not. For his research on digital video and image forensics, Anderson de Rezende

Careers in Digital Forensics

Getting into digital forensics today requires a jack-of-all-trades to be able to work with emerging technology, such as the cloud, says Rob Lee of SANS Institute. “The more that you could focus in on computer science topics, to understand programming,

Forensic Technology Preview Day 2011 – Germany

On the 11th and 12th October the mh Service GmbH organizes their annual FT-Day – this year at the Schlosshotel Karlsruhe in Germany. See equipment, software, exhibitors and speakers. This year for the first time – workshops offered by the

Met police quadruples size of cybercrime unit

The Metropolitan police has quadrupled its cybercrime unit to 85 officers in just two months as the investigation into so-called “hacktivist” groups, LulzSec and Anonymous, gathers pace. Scotland Yard issued a fresh warning to computer hackers following the high-profile arrests

Consortium of Digital Forensic Specialists – www.cdfs.org

The Consortium of Digital Forensic Specialists (CDFS), a global non-profit industry group that aims to improve the digital forensic profession through unity, advocacy and standardization, announced today that it is now accepting membership applications from interested organizations and individuals. CDFS

Advance in data manipulation streamlines presentation of digital evidence

A development in complex data interpretation is set to significantly speed up digital forensic investigations – by enhancing the presentation of evidence from a range of commonly used devices. Researchers at CCL-Forensics have developed an innovative application for presenting the

SQLite Forensic Reporter v1.1 Released

A new version of SQLite Forensic Reporter, Universal SQLite database examination tool, is now available. Version 1.1 now includes more features to analyse, extract and report on information from any SQLite database (not corrupted or encrypted). Useful for Computer &

Important Changes to “Articles & Papers” Section

From today, the section where we display user submitted articles and research papers is changing significantly. Users will now be able to upload, edit and publish their own articles. The URL for the new section is http://articles.forensicfocus.com/ If you would

Web History Visualisation for Forensic Investigations

Web History Visualisation for Forensic Investigations Sarah Lowman (1) and Ian Ferguson (2) (1) – sarah@lowmanio.co.uk (2) – University of Abertay I.Ferguson@abertay.ac.uk Abstract. Current tools for analysing web history often produce large amounts of data. This data is usually presented

SC Suite v4.3 Released

A new version of SC Suite is now available. Version 4.3 includes more tools to analyse and extract information from a variety of file types and utilities to assist in every day tasks. Continuing user feedback has resulted in the

UK police forces come together to create new regional surveillance units

Britain’s police forces are forming regional surveillance units with the power to carry out covert and intrusive investigations. Detectives believe the groups will make it easier for the authorities to bug computers, break into properties and interfere with wireless internet

Cyber Security Challenge competitions begin this week

Cyber security professionals will compete over the next few days to prove their capabilities in the QinetiQ Network Defence competition, as the Cyber Security Challenge gets into full swing. The virtual stage of the QinetiQ Network Defence competition and the

Bahamas police receive digital forensics equipment from US Dept of State

The US Embassy’s acting deputy chief of Mission Bradley Lynn and regional security officer Derrick Boyd presented a Mac Book Pro computer forensics laptop package valued at more than $14,000 to the Royal Bahamas Police Force’s Central Detective Unit. The

Studying the web’s impact on sex offenders

Law enforcement agencies and psychologists are debating the relationship between the availability of the material online and those who are interested in it. Dr Ethel Quayle, a lecturer in clinical psychology at the University of Edinburgh said that studies have