13th August 2025

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 13 2025
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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....

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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

Oxygen Tech Bytes In July 2025

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Level up your DFIR skills in under 20 minutes with Oxygen Tech Bytes’ expert-led, on-demand webinars....read more

Neal Ysart, Co-Founder, The Coalition Of Cyber Investigators

Neal Ysart, Co-Founder, The Coalition Of Cyber Investigators

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Neal Ysart shares how The Coalition of Cyber Investigators tackles OSINT integrity, complex investment fraud, and the rise of AI-driven scams....read more

Copyright contravention and the modification of games consoles

by Dan Gaskell "The Copyright Design and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA) was amended by Statutory Instrument on 31 October 2003 through the introduction of the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003. The driving force behind this was an EC Directive

How to Handle Hard Drives in Government Probe

Although there is plenty of ­guidance in case law and in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure regarding court-supervised electronic discovery, companies responding to government requests find themselves on a journey without a road map. In the absence of court

Logicube Announces Networkable Digital Forensic Storage Solution

Logicube® Inc. has announced a new addition to its line of forensic data capture solutions. The MPFS™ (Massive Portable Forensic Storage) solution is the first storage device designed specifically for the digital forensic market. The MPFS provides up to 8TB

Applying medical diagnostic principles to digital forensics

by Sean McLinden "Traditionally, computer forensics begins with the seizure of all possible evidence then test, test, test until either you find something or you decide that there is nothing to be found. To paraphrase an example attributed to Rob

What is this field called anyway?

by Chris Hargreaves "In this series of articles I hope to explore some of the issues in forensic computing from an academic perspective, which will hopefully complement the perspectives from other columnists in the corporate, legal and software development fields.

Computer forensics tool for banks aims to trace Trojans

Transaction security firm Trusteer has launched a remote forensics service designed to allow banks to diagnose if a client’s PC has been infected with malware following incidents of suspected fraud. The Flashlight service is designed to allow strains of malware

Dominik Weber: Thoughts on forensic software development

"Working late on a Thursday night in an otherwise pretty empty building, I pause for a moment while the debugger is stopped at a breakpoint. I am thinking of the big difference between doing it right and just making it

New Feature: Forensic Focus Columnists

Forensic Focus is delighted to announce that this month sees the start of regular columns written by some of the most knowledgeable and experienced professionals in the computer forensics industry and related fields. Aiming to cover a broad range of

Cyber crime losses in US almost ‘double’ during 2009

US losses to online crime almost doubled during 2009, reveals a report. Losses totalled $560m (£371m) in 2009, up from $265m (£176m) in 2008, showed the annual report by the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)… More (BBC)

Police launch new high-tech mobile phone unit in Kent, UK

Sim card specialists will aid the technological tussle with crime following the formation of a new mobile phone unit at Kent Police. Officers throughout the county can now access deleted text messages, photographs and more in-house, saving the force an

SSD tools crack passwords 100 times faster

Password-cracking tools optimised to work with SSDs have achieved speeds up to 100 times quicker than previously possible… More (The Register)

UAB’s Warner Voted “Most Popular Security Blogger”

Gary Warner, the director of research in computer forensics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), has been named the country’s “Most Popular Security Blogger” after a vote of information-security peers and blog readers.The popular blogger vote was hosted

Companies urged to share data breach information

Sharing information with law enforcement after a breach is critical to successfully battling increasingly sophisticated and organized cybercriminals, security experts said during a panel discussion at the RSA Conference 2010. The biggest challenge for law enforcement is trying to work

Forensic 4cast: Conversation with Rob Lee

"Last Friday I had a conversation with Rob Lee of Mandiant and SANS. We talked about a few things but mostly about the upcoming SANS EU Forensic Summit. Even if you’re not planning on attending it's worth listening to find