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

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,

Operation Ore was based on flawed evidence (The Register)

Britain’s biggest ever computer crime investigation, Operation Ore, was flawed by a catalogue of “discrepancies, errors and uncertainties”, disclosed reports of two national police conferences seen by The Register reveal. The police memoranda show that within months of the operation

Cyber-stalking should be a criminal offence, UK MPs say

Cyber-stalking should be made a criminal offence, says a group of MPs calling for an overhaul of the law. The charity Network for Surviving Stalking says the internet is “another weapon in the stalker’s armoury”. More than 80 MPs from

Everything you do online reveals your identity

Identity theft isn’t the biggest threat to your privacy online. According to one leading US lawyer, it’s the details you give away without realising – and even seemingly anonymous data can be used to piece together your identity. ‘Re-identification’ –

The End of Digital Forensics?

by Craig Ball "When Microsoft introduced its Encrypting File System (EFS) in Windows 2000, the Cassandras of computer forensics peppered the listserves with predictions that the days of digital forensics were numbered. Ten years on and hundreds of systems acquired,

Dell Ships New Ruggedized Notebook for Forensic Evidence Gathering

Dell on March 24 started shipping a new ruggedized laptop with special features designed specifically for forensic evidence collection by law enforcement or scientific specialists. The Mobile Digital Forensic package, based on the company’s location-based Digital Forensics product, is aimed

Fragmentation of the digital forensics community

"I started in the digital forensics community about five years ago, and I already feel old, and I am a Johnny-come-lately. This post may come off as a “Hey, you kids, get offa my lawn!” rant. Rather than a rant,

Evaluating Mobile Telephone Connection Behaviour – Part 2

by Sam Raincock "Within the UK, details of past telephone connections are stored by the network providers. The minimum storage is advised by the Data Retention (EC Directive) Regulations. However, each network provider is able to disclose different types of

Biles’ Hierarchy of Disaster Recovery Needs

"It doesn’t take long if you watch the IT News before you come across a good example of bad BCP/DRP – my favourite this month was Vodafone but this is just a retelling of an old story. The fact that

Solid-state drives and forensic data recovery

Computer crime investigations are facing a major upheaval as the shift towards a new type of hard drive technology allows criminals to cover their tracks and outsmart digital forensic specialists, Australian researchers have found. The new drives found in many

Mike’s Forensic Tools

A few new applications have recently been released as part of Mike’s Forensic Tools. As with all MFT Software these are free to use: MFT Hex ChomperA simple tool to parse a block of Hex and identify and flag any