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

To GUI or not to GUI?

by Chris Hargreaves "During the last two weeks I have spent a disproportionate amount of time staring at a command prompt. This has been for a couple of reasons, which will be mentioned later in this article. What was interesting

PeerLab review

A review of PeerLab by Jonathan Krause is now online here. Please use this thread for discussion of the review.

Forensic Focus prize awarded at Cranfield University

An annual award sponsored by Forensic Focus available to those studying at the Centre for Forensic Computing at Cranfield University was recently awarded for the first time. The prize, consisting of a trophy and cash sum, is awarded to the

PFIC 2010 registration now open

Paraben has announced that full conference registration, including labs, is open for PFIC 2010, November 7-10 in Park City, Utah. PFIC 2010 will feature new lab tracks, an added a vendor showcase room for live demonstrations, and more opportunities for

Katana Forensics Releases Lantern 1.0.6

Katana Forensics has announced the release of Lantern 1.0.6. This version delivers support for iOS4 and the iPhone 4 device. Lantern 1.0.6 also fixes extracting images from iPads, GUI and Logging enhancements. Lantern is available at www.katanaforensics.com or Teel Technologies.

Android support added to F-Response

F-Response http://www.f-response.com has added support for the Android OS to its arsenal of forensic tools. This provides examiners with the possibility of examining embedded devices such as tablets, media players, and mobile phones that use this OS. More info here

UK seeks next generation of cyber security specialists

A national competition has been launched to find the next generation of UK cyber security specialists. The Cyber Security Challenge will put entrants through a series of online and face-to-face competitions to assess their abilities. The prizes on offer include

Violating Web Site Rules Not A Crime

A U.S. District Court judge on Tuesday ruled that it’s not a criminal act to violate the Terms of Service of a Web site, a decision hailed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The case, Facebook v. Power Ventures, arose because

Skills, secrecy the hallmark of officers who pursue sex criminals

Lt. Jeff Weible and his staff are fond of secrecy. Their job requires intense secrecy and special skills, mostly with computers, sometimes with acting, always with the pursuit of sex criminals in mind. His most experienced detective, Jennifer Wright, is

Micro Systemation AB Releases XRY v5.1 with iPad Support

Micro Systemation AB has announced the release of version 5.1 of its XRY Complete mobile device forensics software. This new version includes full support for the Apple iPad, along with the following devices…– Logical acquisitions from 107 new devices, including

Teel Tech Announces Advanced Mobile Device and iPhone Forensic Training

Teel Technologies has announced its Fall and Winter schedule of Advanced Mobile Device Forensic classes and iPhone Bootcamp courses, as well as introducing tool-specific and online training. Complete scheduling information can be found at www.TeelTechTraining.com.Teel Tech’s Advanced Class educates students

Resolving MSN Messenger User IDs to email addresses

"A while ago I developed a small piece of software to resolve an MSN Messenger User ID to the email address used to create it and this has been used internally at Kent Police for quite a while. After we

Deleted Data Forensics for Mobiles Phones Wins UK Accreditation

The UK-based digital forensics company, Forensic Telecommunications Services (FTS) has been awarded accreditation to ISO 17025:2005 and, in a UK first, the laboratory has been assessed and granted accreditation for its specialist techniques used in physically recovering deleted data from