14th August 2025

Enterprise Turns To AI For Speed And Accuracy In DFIR
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Magnet Forensics explores how AI is revolutionizing speed and accuracy in DFIR....

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Breaking Digital Barriers: Galaxy S25 & Z Flip Fully Supported

Breaking Digital Barriers: Galaxy S25 & Z Flip Fully Supported

14th August 2025

Gain full filesystem access to the latest Samsung Galaxy devices with MD-NEXT....read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 13 2025

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 13 2025

13th August 2025

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....read more

Well-Being In Digital Forensics And Policing: Insights From Hannah Bailey

Well-Being In Digital Forensics And Policing: Insights From Hannah Bailey

12th August 2025

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

Fake email easily detected

The email at the heart of the Utegate scandal would have been found easily by the Australian Federal Police and could have been fabricated in a number of ways, according to a computer forensics expert. Proof that an email sent

Luring law adds cellular technology

BOULDER, Colo. — A new law that took effect this week makes it illegal to lure children under age 15 through sexually-explicit text messages or cell-phone pictures, signifying a shift in popular technology and giving prosecutors another tool to catch

Legal challenge to web child abuse inquiry

One of Britain’s biggest online paedophile inquiries is to be challenged in the court of appeal amid allegations from campaigners that hundreds of men have been wrongly convicted in a mass miscarriage of justice. For more than two years a

How To Seize a Laptop And Make It Stick

On May 21, Justice Margot Botsford of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ordered police to return computer equipment that they had seized from Boston College student Riccardo Calixte in March. Police had obtained a warrant and seized the computer

SANS Forensics Blog has moved

The SANS Forensics blog has moved to its new permanent home https://blogs.sans.org/computer-forensics. Update your feeds too, the new address is https://blogs.sans.org/computer-forensics/feed/

Don’t Let Legacy Media Foil Your Forensic Investigation

When performing incident response and forensics on a compromised system, the focus of analysis is on the most immediately available and relevant sources of evidence. Volatile data collected from a running system, the hard drive, network flow data, and logs

UK members – Can you HACK it?

Forensic Focus is pleased to support The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), a charity which will be familiar to many UK members, especially those involved with child protection issues. The NSPCC’s annual HACK (Hike Against

Swiss bust CP ring

Swiss police say they have uncovered an internet CP network spanning 78 countries and involving at least 2,000 IP internet addresses. An inquiry was launched after a tip-off from Interpol about a website based in Switzerland being used as a

E-fense Announces Newest Version of Helix3 Pro

E-fense has released the next version of Helix3 Pro 2009R2. The new version contains many new features including the ability to image RAM on Linux and the ability to send multiple forensic images over the network using the new Helix3

Evidence of Thriving Forensic Business

Two police officers resigned from the force after they spotted a gap in the market to supply high-quality forensic examination of mobile phones and computer records. They set up Bolton-based Zentek Forensics in 2004 using their extensive knowledge of police

LinkAlyzer released

Sanderson Forensics has announced the release of LinkAlyzer. LinkAlyzer is a forensic tool that decodes and displays the content of multiple link files (Windows Shortcuts) at the same time. LinkAlyzer Loads multiple (tested on 40,000+) link files into a grid

New UK cyber chief to protect against computer attacks

Britain is to appoint its first national cyber security chief to protect the country from terrorist computer hackers and electronic espionage, Gordon Brown will announce tomorrow. The Prime Minister’s move comes amid fears that the computer systems of government and

Review: Digital Safety Conference, London

Cyberstalking is the new urban terror – the message rang home loud and clear at the Digital Safety Conference in London last week (Friday). For although, in Cyberspace, no-one hears you scream, increasing numbers of people are getting off on

LIMA from IntaForensics

Unveiled at ACPO 2009, IntaForensics (http://www.intaforensics.com) has announced the launch of new case management software LIMA™. Available to both service providers and Police High Tech crime units, LIMA™ streamlines case and resource management and gives authorised personnel the ability to

More on EnCase Portable

More details on EnCase Portable have been released on both the Guidance Software website and YouTube… More (Forensic4Cast)

Cash machines hacked to spew out card details

“Skulduggery,” says Andrew Henwood, “is a very good word to describe what this extremely advanced, cleverly written malware gets up to. We’ve never seen anything like it.” What he has discovered is a devious piece of criminal coding that has