4th August 2025

Digital Forensics Jobs Round-Up, August 04 2025
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Explore a selection of the latest DFIR employment opportunities in this week’s Forensic Focus jobs round-up....

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Collaborative Forensics: Overcoming Challenges In Multi-Jurisdictional Investigations

Collaborative Forensics: Overcoming Challenges In Multi-Jurisdictional Investigations

31st July 2025

Discover expert strategies for cross-border investigations in Exterro’s on-demand webinar....read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, July 30 2025

Digital Forensics Round-Up, July 30 2025

30th July 2025

Read the latest DFIR news – Epstein video analysis by ex-FBI experts, stress warning signs in forensics, Raspberry Pi toolkit “Toby,” PDF tampering risks, SWGDE timing advance guidance, and more....read more

S21 Spotlight Transcriber – Slow, Manual Transcription Or Insecure Online Service? There’s A Better Way.

S21 Spotlight Transcriber – Slow, Manual Transcription Or Insecure Online Service? There’s A Better Way.

30th July 2025

Tired of risky online transcription tools? Discover a faster, fully offline alternative built for secure investigations....read more

Stroz Friedberg Promotes Seth Berman and Erin Nealy Cox

Stroz Friedberg has announced the promotions of Seth P. Berman and Erin Nealy Cox to the position of Executive Managing Director and their appointment to the firm’s Executive Management Group, which sets strategy and policy for the firm…”Our Executive Management

Forensic Focus 2010 survey

The Forensic Focus 2010 survey is now online at http://feedbackfarm.com/surveyengine/s.php?i=477 The survey should take no more than 2 or 3 minutes to complete and does not require any personal or contact information. This year the survey has been expanded to

ElcomSoft Update Recovers Encrypted Backups to iPhone and iPod Touch Devices

ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. has updated Elcomsoft iPhone Password Breaker, a GPU-accelerated password recovery tool to unlock encrypted iPhone and iPod Touch backups, with iOS 4 Software support. The support of the latest iOS enables ElcomSoft’s forensic customers to access information

Digital Assembly, NYU-Poly Help Speed Forensic Digital Photo Recovery for Gov/LE

Digital Assembly, a leading photo forensics software company with roots at Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly), will collaborate with the U.S. Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3) to improve DC3’s internally developed forensics carving tools. Digital Assembly

New Trainer, Continued Training Mark Second Half for MSAB Inc.

MSAB Inc. has announced the addition of Jansen Cohoon, an educator and digital forensic practitioner, to its training division. Cohoon will design and teach curriculum that advances both MSAB’s XRY Complete product line, and mobile device forensics overall. As Technical

Man charged with malware ‘sextortion’ plot

Federal prosecutors have accused a man of hacking into scores of computers and using the personal information he found to extort sexually explicit videos from female victims, many of whom were juveniles. Luis Mijangos, 31, of Santa Ana, California, was

Oxygen Forensic Suite 2010 updated to support iTunes 9.2 and iPad

Oxygen Forensic Suite 2010 has been updated to version 2.7 build 456. This update includes support for iPad, iTunes 9.2 and fixes several issues for Blackberry, Motorola and Sony Ericsson devices….The complete list of changes since v2.7 release: – Added

Australian ediscovery industry grows up

OK, so you’ve heard about the term ediscovery, and possibly know of Australia’s federal court ruling last year that meant all matters above a certain size must be dealt with 100% digitally. It’s all very well to dip into the

Unusual devices

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 was seriously injured. The

Cellebrite launches the Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED) V1.1.3.8

Cellebrite has announced the launch of its Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED) version 1.1.3.8. Cellebrite’s UFED System is an all-in-one mobile forensic solution with logical and physical extraction capabilities, and advanced analysis tools…Supporting over 2,500 mobile devices, the UFED family

Flash drives and acquisition

by Dominik Weber “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 that the acquisition hash changed every time the drive was

Paraben Corporation releases DS Box; a mobile device acquisition kiosk

Paraben Corporation has announced the release of the DS Box, a self-contained cellular phone and PDA data acquisition unit built into a stationary kiosk system. Designed DS Box for locations such as prisons, military bases, and regional labs, the DS

Publication: an ethical dilemma for DF research?

by Chris Hargreaves "Ethical issues in science are commonplace; examples such as cloning, climate change and genetic engineering are all subject to different ethical debates. Some subjects have clearly defined areas of potential ethical problems, for example in Psychology much

Cybercrime on the increase in the Netherlands

The number of instances of serious cyber crime in the Netherlands has reached 170 so far this year, compared with 150 cases in 2009 as a whole, internet security watchdog Govcert says in Tuesday’s Financieele Dagblad. Organised cyber crime is

Paraben Corporation offers free version of P2 Shuttle

Paraben Corporation has announced the release of P2 Shuttle FREE as the latest addition to their lineup of Enterprise-level digital forensic technology. P2 Shuttle FREE is a specialized tool that can perform a live forensic exam over a network or