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

ForensicSoft Announces Forensically Sound Windows Bootable Environment

ForensicSoft has announced the release of its newest computer forensic tool, SAFE. SAFE, which stands for System Acquisition Forensics Environment, is a new Windows-based computer forensic platform specifically designed to support the expanding needs of computer forensic, computer security, and

Harlan Carvey This Week’s Guest On Talk Forensics

Talk Forensics (www.blogtalkradio.com/TalkForensics), hosted by Larry Daniel of Guardian Digital Forensics, has announced that Harlan Carvey will be the guest on the show for the May 10th episode at 4pm Eastern.

Review – MacLockPick II

Austin Troxell’s review of MacLockPick II can be read here with follow up discussion here.

HBGary and BitSec Forensics Announce Strategic Partnership

HBGary yesterday announced a strategic partnership with BitSec Forensics, a computer forensics and information security consultancy with expertise in computer forensics, information security, electronic discovery, and cyber incident response. As part of this new partnership, BitSec Forensics will use HBGary’s

Police want new remote hard drive search powers

Cyber cops want new laws to allow remote searches of seized hard drives in the hope they will help reduce long digital forensics backlogs – of up to two years for some forces. It would mean specialised officers in London

XBox Forensics

A forensics toolkit for the Xbox gaming console is described by US researchers in the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics. The toolkit could allow law enforcement agencies to scour the inbuilt hard disk of such devices and

Computer forensics agent honored for meritorious service

Federal prosecutors call Jimmy Weg of Helena “The Legend.” A federal court judge calls him “Professor Weg.” And now, Montana Department of Justice Criminal Investigator Jimmy Weg can add “award winning computer forensic examiner” to his title. A surprised Weg

Solving Crimes With Computer Forensics

When detectives are called out to crime scenes, they are doing much more than studying fingerprints and talking to witnesses. More and more, their investigations are taking them to computer labs where incriminating evidence is often found on every day

Interview with Jan Collie

An interview with UK-based computer forensics investigator Jan Collie is now online at http://www.forensicfocus.com/jan-collie-interview-240409

Plan to monitor all UK internet use

Communications firms are being asked to record all internet contacts between people as part of a modernisation in UK police surveillance tactics. The home secretary scrapped plans for a database but wants details to be held and organised for security

Don’t Mess With System Metadata

Why do people who know better than to traipse through crime scenes blithely muck about with digital smoking guns? With computers, it seems we must trip over the corpus delecti and grab the knife before we realize we’re standing in

New generation of cyber-sleuths on the trail of electronic crime

Until recently, crime scene investigations typically involved searching for minute specs of blood, or threads of fabric linking a suspect to a victim. Or, detectives would wade through mountains of paperwork, trying to link evidence in bank statements, letters and

2009 Data Breach Investigations Report

The 2009 Data Breach Investigations Report by the Verizon Business RISK team has been released and is available as a PDF file here.