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

Facebook used in hunt for Jo Yeates’ killer

Detectives have begun a Facebook campaign in a bid to catch the killer of Jo Yeates. Her body was found on Christmas Day, in Longwood Lane, Failand, eight days after she was reported missing from her home in Clifton, Bristol.

Hackers crack open mobile network

Mobile calls and texts made on any GSM network can be eavesdropped upon using four cheap phones and open source software, say security researchers. Karsten Nohl and Sylvain Munaut demonstrated their eavesdropping toolkit at the Chaos Computer Club Congress (CCC)

American charged with hacking after snooping on wife’s emails

A Michigan man has been charged under anti-hacking legislation designed to protect trade secrets after logging on to his wife’s email account and discovering she was having an affair. Leon Walker, 33, faces a trial lawyers say could have significant

Merry Christmas to all members!

Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you’re all having a good time and enjoying a well deserved rest! Best wishes, Jamie

Resurrecting Deadbeats

by Craig Ball "An op-ed piece in the New York Times called Begging for Your Pay describes the humiliating ordeal of freelancers forced to hound clients to recover thousands of dollars of compensation. It brings to mind the occasional posts

Pre-Emptive Digital Forensics Research

by Chris Hargreaves "In August 2010 it was announced that Google Wave would not be continuing as a stand-alone product, having been available to the general public for just 2-3 months. In that time period, it is unlikely that much

Students: How to secure a Computer Forensics work placement

by David Sullivan "Securing a work placement is a key part of most Computer Forensics (CF) degrees. In my experience recruiting in this area, successfully completing a placement greatly increases the chances of gaining a full time job in CF

Paraben Releases P2 Commander v1.7

Paraben has released a new version of P2 Commander. Version 1.7 now supports Mac file format as well as vmWare and VirtualPC images. Users will notice a huge increase in the speed of processing evidence in v1.7. Current subscriptions holders

FBI ‘planted backdoor’ in OpenBSD?

Allegations that the FBI may have smuggled back doors or weaknesses into openBSD’s cryptography have created uproar in the security community. Former government contractor Gregory Perry, who helped develop the OpenBSD crypto framework a decade ago, claims that contractors were

ChromeOS means losing control of data, warns GNU founder

Google’s new cloud computing ChromeOS looks like a plan “to push people into careless computing” by forcing them to store their data in the cloud rather than on machines directly under their control, warns Richard Stallman, founder of the Free

Forensic Science Service in England and Wales to be wound up

The Forensic Science Service is to be wound up, the UK Government said today. Crime Prevention Minister James Brokenshire said action needed to be taken as the service was making operational losses of £2 million per month and was likely

E-Discovery and Legal Frameworks Governing Privacy and Data Protection in Europe

FTI Technology LLC, the e-discovery business segment of global advisory firm FTI Consulting, Inc. has announced the availability of a RAND Europe report entitled “E-Discovery and Legal Frameworks Governing Privacy and Data Protection in European Countries.” The complimentary report, which

Goldman Sachs Programmer Found Guilty of Stealing Code

Sergey Aleynikov, 40, was found guilty in the Southern District of New York on one count of stealing trade secrets and one count of transporting stolen property. Authorities said Aleynikov stole “hundreds of thousands of lines” of source code from

SubRosaSoft.com Inc. announces MacForensicsLab Web Agent 1.0

SubRosaSoft.com Inc. announces the immediate availability of MacForensicsLab Web Agent 1.0, an automated website crawler designed to hunt CP, with a built-in skin tone analyzer to identify images of evidentiary value…MacForensicsLab Web Agent is designed for ease of use and