20th August 2025

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 20 2025
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Read the latest digital forensics news – SANS releases DFIR Summit playlist, UAC launches v3.2.0, Neal Ysart discusses the Coalition of Cyber Investigators, and more....

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Wrapping Up The S21 Transcriber Spotlight Session – What We’ve Covered

Wrapping Up The S21 Transcriber Spotlight Session – What We’ve Covered

20th August 2025

Explore S21 Transcriber: a fully offline, court-ready tool with free 30-day access and training....read more

UPCOMING WEBINAR – Retail Under Siege: Fighting Back Against Ransomware With Next-Gen Forensics

UPCOMING WEBINAR – Retail Under Siege: Fighting Back Against Ransomware With Next-Gen Forensics

19th August 2025

Retailers face rising cyber threats—join Exterro's Sept 4 webinar to learn fast, modern forensic response strategies and protect your brand....read more

Digital Forensics Jobs Round-Up, August 18 2025

Digital Forensics Jobs Round-Up, August 18 2025

18th August 2025

Explore a selection of the latest DFIR employment opportunities in this week’s Forensic Focus jobs round-up....read more

The cold boot attack: Can it be used for forensic memory acquisition?

by Richard Carbone "The purpose of this technical memorandum is to examine the technical characteristics behind the cold boot attack technique and to understand when and how this technique should be applied to the field of computer forensic investigations. Upon

DFCB Announces September 2nd Application Deadline for DFCP Designation

The Digital Forensics Certification Board (DFCB), an independent certifications organization for digital evidence examiners, today announced that its next application deadline for its Digital Forensics Certified Practitioner (DFCP) designation is September 2, 2011. The DFCB currently accepts applications four times

Mobile Forensics Training Session by viaForensics

viaForensics will hold five mobile forensics training sessions covering Linux use in forensics, iPhone forensics, Android forensics, advanced mobile forensics, and advanced file carving. The sessions will be held at the Peel Police Department in Mississauga, Ontario, October 3-7, 2011.

Jeffrey “Skunk” Baxter Announced as PFIC 2011 Keynote Speaker

PFIC – Paraben’s Forensic Innovation Conference – is pleased to have Jeffrey “Skunk” Baxter as our keynote this year. Not only is he one of the world’s leading guitarists, but he is one of the top innovators in the world

Google History Forensics

by Craig Ball "In my last Forensic Focus column, I touched on migration to handhelds and the cloud, mushrooming drive capacities and encryption-by-default as just some of the factors auguring the eventual extinction of conventional digital forensics. But an end

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