2nd September 2026

Semantics 21 Asks The Uncomfortable Question Every Review Team Should Be Asking
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If your forensic tool isn’t showing you every file in a case, how can you be sure you’re investigating the full picture? See how S21 VisionX keeps difficult, damaged and excluded material visible to investigators....

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Digital Forensics Round-Up, September 02 2026

Digital Forensics Round-Up, September 02 2026

2nd September 2026

Read the latest DFIR news - SANS AI frameworks for DFIR, AI hackathon tools, investigator well-being, macOS unlock artifacts, cross-platform log analysis, Apple Health forensics, and more....read more

Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference Returns To San Diego October 20–22, 2026

Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference Returns To San Diego October 20–22, 2026

1st September 2026

Join the DFIR community in San Diego, October 20–22, 2026, for the Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference - three days of expert-led education, emerging technologies, hands-on insights, and valuable industry networking....read more

Belkasoft X 2.12 Introduces Offline Translation For DFIR Investigations

Belkasoft X 2.12 Introduces Offline Translation For DFIR Investigations

31st August 2026

Belkasoft previews offline translation in Belkasoft X. BelkaGPT will translate chats, SMS, and artifact text in more than 100 languages, entirely on the examiner machine....read more

DFCB opens application process

The Digital Forensics Certification Board (www.dfcb.org) has re-opened the application process for the DFCP and DFCA certifications. Founded in 2004, the Digital Forensics Certification Board is a member-driven, non-profit, vendor independent organization of the National Center for Forensic Science, sponsored

Passware Partners with Guidance Software

Passware, Inc., has announced a partnership with Guidance Software, Inc. to expand encrypted evidence discovery and analysis in the upcoming release of EnCase v7. “As encrypted electronic evidence becomes more common in computer forensics, it is hard to overestimate the

Is Sony getting a bad rap on its data breach?

It’s common for companies to learn that breaches are more serious than first thought. That’s what happens as security experts are brought in and the forensic investigation progresses. Sony just had the misfortune of having its investigation scrutinized, said Rob

Standard Units in Digital Forensics

by Chris Hargreaves "One of the earliest lectures in the MIT Openware programme in Physics begins with the lecture “Units and Dimensional Analysis”. The notion of units of measurement in science is extremely important and it therefore seems sensible to

PitchLake – a tar pit for scanners

by Simon Biles"One of my first tasks in the office this morning, after a cup of coffee of course, was to review my server logs. As of yet I’ve not got enough staff to have a minion to do this

“Epilog” SQLite forensic tool now available

Researchers at CCL-Forensics have taken a significant step forward in their analysis of SQLite databases, which are extensively used by many computers, web browsers, mobile phones and SatNavs. The latest development within epilog allows investigators to reinstate these databases to

HBGary Unveils Responder™ Community Edition

HBGary, Inc., has introduced Responder™ Community Edition, a new, free version of its flagship Responder™ product for physical memory analysis. Limited copies of this new free tool are available on CD at HBGary booth #201 at the Computer and Enterprise

New Mike’s Forensic Tools releases

MFT Runtime – Following recent requests for CPS, this software quickly totals up the runtime of either individual video clips or a collection of video clips held in recursive folders. Exports to a detailed report. MFT PictureBox – Will recursively

BackTrack 5 Released

The BackTrack Dev team has worked in the past months on BackTrack 5, code name “revolution”. It was released to the public on May 10th. This new revision has been built from scratch, and boasts several major improvements over all

Met buy software to map suspects’ digital movements

Britain’s largest police force is using software that can map nearly every move suspects and their associates make in the digital world, prompting an outcry from civil liberties groups. The Metropolitan police has bought Geotime, a security programme used by

Belkasoft announces import of IM chats to Encase

Belkasoft has recently released a free Encase integration script which allows users to import Instant Messenger chats, extracted by Belkasoft Forensic IM Analyzer, directly to an Encase case. For further information see here.

Forensic 4cast Awards 2011

The nominees for the Forensic 4cast Awards are now online at http://www.forensic4cast.com/2011/05/forensic-4cast-awards-meet-the-nominees/ Please take some time to review the nominees and place your votes. The awards ceremony will be taking place during the SANS Forensic Summit in Austin, Texas on

Science advice ‘not sought’ on UK FSS closure

The Home Office’s chief scientific adviser was not consulted over the closure of the UK Forensic Science Service (FSS), it has emerged. Bernard Silverman said he was informed in advance but not consulted “as such”. Dr Silverman was speaking at

SC Suite v4.2 Released

A new version of SC Suite is available, version 4.2 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

Software as Evidence

Increasingly, chains of evidence include software steps. It’s not just the RIAA suing people – and getting it wrong – based on automatic systems to detect and identify file sharers. It’s forensic programs used to collect and analyze data from