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

Radio Tactics Launches Aceso v5 Mobile Phone Forensic Equipment

Radio Tactics Ltd – www.radio-tactics.com – a provider of mobile phone forensics equipment today announces the launch of Aceso v5. The Aceso v5 is an upgrade to the existing Radio Tactics Aceso device, which enables users from government and law

EnCase file copying and Windows Short File Names

By Lee Hui Jing, EnCe "A couple of months ago, one of my clients, an Investigating Officer from a Law Enforcement Agency, had requested me to extract some of the files from an image copy of a hard disk. The

To Avoid ‘Plain View,’ Investigators Need Blinders

The 1st, 4th, and 7th U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal have applied the plain view doctrine to computer searches. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the doctrine in United States v. Comprehensive Drug Testing. This article looks at

Types of Digital Forensics Research

by Chris Hargreaves "Browsing through the forums on Forensic Focus, on numerous occasions I have come across requests for MSc project ideas. An MSc project is a research project, and that requires the identification of an area of research in

Digital forensic sampling

"In this paper we would like to address a few problems that we encounter in the digital forensic field, in general, which probably will get worse if our methods do not get smarter soon. A few problems that the digital

AccessData CEO Tim LeeHealey interview

Tim LeeHealey is CEO of pioneering US forensic firm AccessData, which creates solutions that address criminal and internal investigations, ediscovery and information assurance. On a visit to Sydney to attend a seminar for forensic investigators, LeeHealy took some time out

Big jump predicted in use of e-discovery

Organizations will increase their use of electronic discovery, according to new research from IT trade association CompTIA, which will open up opportunities for IT solution providers with the right skills and expertise. E-discovery conventionally refers to the discovery process in

Positive predictive value and digital forensics

by Sean McLinden "In my last column, I discussed the concept of prior probability, that is to say, the likelihood that that conclusion A can be derived from fact B with no additional data. In medical diagnosis, prior probability is

Child Abuse ‘Big Business Online’

There are around 450 criminal gangs around the world making money from images of child sex abuse, the UK’s Internet Watch Foundation has said. The watchdog’s annual report says that the 10 most prolific of these account for more than

Verizon partners with U.S. Secret Service on data breach report

Verizon’s invaluable Data Breach Investigations Report will now include data from hundreds of computer crime cases investigated by the U.S. Secret Service, the company announced this week. The report, which is among the best at tracking data loss incidents, is

UK launches competition to find cyber security experts

A national public competition has begun to find people with a talent for keeping computers and networks secure. The competition aims to find those with relevant analytical, forensic and programming skills using web-based games and challenges. Without more computer security

Raid in iPhone case shines spotlight on REACT team

The Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team operated out of publicity’s glare until last month, when armed with a search warrant, its investigators broke into the Fremont home of a blogger-editor for the website Gizmodo. The Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team,

Guidance Software Acquires Assets of Tableau LLC

Guidance Software, Inc. today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Tableau, LLC, a privately-held developer and manufacturer of computer forensic hardware. This acquisition extends Guidance Software’s existing leadership in computer forensics