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

HBGary Unveils Responder™ Community Edition

HBGary, Inc., has introduced Responder™ Community Edition, a new, free version of its flagship Responder™ product for physical memory analysis. Limited copies of this new free tool are available on CD at HBGary booth #201 at the Computer and Enterprise

New Mike’s Forensic Tools releases

MFT Runtime – Following recent requests for CPS, this software quickly totals up the runtime of either individual video clips or a collection of video clips held in recursive folders. Exports to a detailed report. MFT PictureBox – Will recursively

BackTrack 5 Released

The BackTrack Dev team has worked in the past months on BackTrack 5, code name “revolution”. It was released to the public on May 10th. This new revision has been built from scratch, and boasts several major improvements over all

Met buy software to map suspects’ digital movements

Britain’s largest police force is using software that can map nearly every move suspects and their associates make in the digital world, prompting an outcry from civil liberties groups. The Metropolitan police has bought Geotime, a security programme used by

Belkasoft announces import of IM chats to Encase

Belkasoft has recently released a free Encase integration script which allows users to import Instant Messenger chats, extracted by Belkasoft Forensic IM Analyzer, directly to an Encase case. For further information see here.

Forensic 4cast Awards 2011

The nominees for the Forensic 4cast Awards are now online at http://www.forensic4cast.com/2011/05/forensic-4cast-awards-meet-the-nominees/ Please take some time to review the nominees and place your votes. The awards ceremony will be taking place during the SANS Forensic Summit in Austin, Texas on

Science advice ‘not sought’ on UK FSS closure

The Home Office’s chief scientific adviser was not consulted over the closure of the UK Forensic Science Service (FSS), it has emerged. Bernard Silverman said he was informed in advance but not consulted “as such”. Dr Silverman was speaking at

SC Suite v4.2 Released

A new version of SC Suite is available, version 4.2 now 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

Software as Evidence

Increasingly, chains of evidence include software steps. It’s not just the RIAA suing people – and getting it wrong – based on automatic systems to detect and identify file sharers. It’s forensic programs used to collect and analyze data from

WetStone Releases Tool to Law Enforcement

WetStone announces the release of T.A.P.S.™ (Trait Analytical Profiling Search). This technology was developed under an NIJ funded grant to support state and local law enforcement. WetStone and NIJ have been working on this research for over 2 years. The

New software to help police catch web paedophiles

New computer software set to be used by Notts police will boost efforts to catch internet paedophiles. The Triage Investigator will allow specialist officers to get hold of logs from online chat rooms quicker – and get e-mail contact details

Passware Takes Password Cracking Into the Cloud

Passware, Inc. has announced its Passware Kit Forensic is the first commercial software to harness the power of cloud computing to accelerate password recovery. “Some types of encryption are so secure that without expensive hardware accelerators, it becomes literally impossible

Google Analytics Cookies hold crucial digital forensic evidence

Research analysts at CCL-Forensics have forensically recovered vital internet history data from ‘cookies’ stored within a smartphone, which would not have been retrieved and interpreted using ‘standard’ forensic tools…In particular, cookies placed by the Google Analytics service yielded crucial evidence.

Internet probe can track you down to within 690 metres

Online adverts could soon start stalking you. A new way of working out where you are by looking at your internet connection could pin down your current location to within a few hundred metres. Similar techniques are already in use,