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

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

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

2010 report of digital forensic standards, processes and accuracy measurement

Joshua Isaac James, Pavel Gladyshev {Joshua.James, Pavel.Gladyshev}@UCD.ie Centre for Cybercrime Investigation University College Dublin Belfield, Dublin 4 Ireland 1. Introduction From December 7th 2010 to December 12th 2010 a survey on Digital Investigation Process and Accuracy was conducted in an

Four arrested in the Netherlands in FBI cyber attack probe

Four people have been arrested in the Netherlands as part of an FBI-led investigation into computer hacking, according to US media reports. Sixteen people have been picked up in the US and one, aged 16, in Britain, the reports say.

My cat did it – honest, Guv!

and he did it via remote access… by Sam Raincock, IT and telecommunications expert witness When evaluating computer forensics cases the tricky part is often not just evaluating what is found but determining how it came to reside there. “It

Side channel attacks

by Simon Biles Founder of Thinking Security Ltd., an Information Security and Risk Management consultancy firm based near Oxford in the UK Forensics is all about evidence, but the trick is knowing where to find it! Locard’s exchange principle effectively

Digital Forensics and ‘self-tracking’

by Dr Chris Hargreaves, lecturer at the Centre for Forensic Computing at Cranfield University in Shrivenham, UK This month’s article is based very loosely around a recent 5-minute talk from Gary Wolf (link here) which explores the concept of ‘self-tracking’

It’s not always what you find…

by Sam Raincock, IT and telecommunications expert witness In digital forensics we are often asked to determine the presence of evidence. However, what happens when we do not find anything? How do we prove something wasn’t there? Proving something is

A cloud by any other name…

by Simon Biles Founder of Thinking Security Ltd., an Information Security and Risk Management consultancy firm based near Oxford in the UK. “You have to know the past to understand the present” – Dr. Carl SaganIf you have been kind

How to seduce your (potential) computer forensics employer

by David Sullivan We all over-complicate things and this is certainly true when seeking a new job. Essentially, to be successful at a Computer Forensics interview you just need to demonstrate two things:1. You have the technical skills needed to

Windows Search forensics

Analyzing the Windows (Desktop) Search Extensible Storage Engine database by Joachim Metz jbmetz@users.sourceforge.net Summary While some may curse Windows Vista for all its changes, for us forensic investigators it also introduced new interesting ‘features’. One is the integration of Windows

Sometimes it’s all about timing

First published June 2010 by Sam Raincock, IT and telecommunications expert witness When a crime happens, the time of the events may be critical to the legal case. However, how are these times established? Is it the time alleged by

Publication: an ethical dilemma for digital forensics research?

First published June 2010 by Dr Chris Hargreaves, lecturer at the Centre for Forensic Computing at Cranfield University in Shrivenham, UK Ethical issues in science are commonplace; examples such as cloning, climate change and genetic engineering are all subject to

Flash drives and acquisition

First published June 2010 by Dominik Weber, Senior Software Architect for Guidance Software, Inc. “Take a look at this”. It started simply with that.A co-worker was looking into some strange issue with an acquisition of a flash drive. It seemed

Unusual devices

First published June 2010 by Sean McLinden In 2007, New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine made the news twice for a single event. The first time was the report of a car accident on the Garden State Parkway in which he

Digital forensic sampling

The application of statistical sampling in digital forensics Authors: Robert-Jan Mora and Bas Kloet Company: Hoffmann Investigations, Almere, The Netherlands URL: http://en.hoffmannbv.nl Date: 27th March 2010 Version:1.0 Table of contents 1 Introduction 2 Sampling basics 2.1 The necessity for sampling

EnCase file copying and Windows Short File Names

First published May 2010 By Lee Hui Jing, EnCe Edited by Sarah Khadijah Taylor ABSTRACT A couple of months ago, one of my clients, an Investigating Officer from a Law Enforcement Agency, had requested me to extract some of the