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

New attack bypasses virtually all AV protection

Researchers say they’ve devised a way to bypass protections built in to dozens of the most popular desktop anti-virus products, including those offered by McAfee, Trend Micro, AVG, and BitDefender… More (The Register)

How encryption affected my life

by Dominik Weber "When the large forensic company I am currently working for decided to create an Enterprise-Level product, I worked on cryptographic protocol, the Authentication and Encryption Algorithms, their FIPS 140-2 validation and implementation. This took a long time,

Presenting electronic and computer forensics evidence in court

In this video, State Bar Practice Management Advisor Nerino Petro discusses way to effectively present electronic and computer forensics evidence with Bruce Olson, president of ONLAW Trial Technologies LLC. Olson outlines how to keep the jury engaged. Watch the video

Peer review in computer forensics: pros and cons

by Dr Chris Hargreaves "Traditional academic publications are peer reviewed, e.g. journal papers and conference proceedings, and there are now many examples of these that specifically cover digital forensics (e.g. Digital Investigation, Journal of Digital Forensic Practice). However, a considerable

Digital Forensics Magazine Offers Group Discount on Subscriptions

Companies or educational bodies can now take a group subscription to Digital Forensics Magazine and gain access for 6 or more people for 15% discount. If more than 20 logins are required for the magazine, customers are requested to email

Mac OS X Forensics becomes The Apple Examiner

Mac OS X Forensics (MacOSXForensics.com) has updated its name and URL to now become The Apple Examiner (AppleExaminer.com). The Apple Examiner now offers categories for Macs, the operating system, iPhones, iPods, iPads, other technologies, forums, resources and reviews.

Backbone Security Releases New Version of Popular StegAlyzer Tools

Backbone Security is pleased to announce the release of V3.2 of their popular StegAlyzerAS and StegAlyzerSS digital forensics tools. Developed in Backbone’s Steganography Analysis and Research Center (SARC), the tools are widely used by US and international law enforcement agencies;

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reviewed by Jonathan Krause:Here’s two things you can be sure of; hard drives will constantly increase in capacity and the requirement to finish the job as soon as possible at minimum cost will be an ever present. So any device

FBI: Finding criminal data on cell phones and game consoles is tough

Non-traditional communications devices such as smartphones and game consoles pose a particular problem to law enforcement agencies trying to milk them for forensic data that reveals criminal activity, attendees were told at the 2010 Computer Forensics Show in New York

BlackBag Technologies Releases Mobilyze for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad Data

BlackBag Technologies, Inc. has announced the release and general availability of Mobilyze, a new generation of forensic analysis software specifically designed to analyze iPhone, iPod touch and iPad data…A veteran in Mac forensic analysis solutions, BlackBag now offers the industry’s

SC Suite v4.1 Released

A new version of SC Suite is available, version 4.1 now includes more tools to analyse and extract information from a variety of file types and utilities to assist in every day tasks. Continuing user feedback has resulted in the

PeerLab released – software for scanning and analyzing P2P-Software

PeerLab is a scanner for P2P-programs, WebDisks and Usenet-Clients and can also evaluate important P2P-databases. One of the main advantages is that it does not need any special requirements and is portable (e.g. runs from a USB-stick). The software comes

Advanced StegAnalysis: Demystifying Steganography Investigation

WetStone is offering Advanced StegAnalyis at Techno Security 2010. During this is a two-day advanced training class, detailed analytical and jamming methods will be utilized to both discover and disrupt Steganographic operations. Analysis of Steganographic file systems, streaming steganography and

MSAB Announces Hawaii Five-O Competition for customers

Micro Systemation (MSAB) will release v5.0 of its XRY mobile forensic software pack to all existing customers on Friday 23rd April this week. To celebrate this new release; existing customers are being offered the opportunity to enter a competition to

Flashback Data recieves ASCLD/LAB International Accreditation

Flashback Data is the first ever non-governmental lab accredited for computer forensics under the ASCLD/LAB International Accreditation Program. The company joins a short list of digital evidence laboratories accredited under the program, including those owned by the F.B.I. and state