18th August 2025

Digital Forensics Jobs Round-Up, August 18 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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Enterprise Turns To AI For Speed And Accuracy In DFIR

Enterprise Turns To AI For Speed And Accuracy In DFIR

14th August 2025

Magnet Forensics explores how AI is revolutionizing speed and accuracy in DFIR....read more

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

HGBary Releases Windows Memory Investigation/Malware Analysis Platform

HBGary Responder Professional 1.3 allows security professionals, malware analysts and forensic investigators to more effectively and efficiently detect, diagnose and investigate computer crimes on live Windows computer systems…HBGary Responder Professional 1.3 fulfills many of the rigorous requirements that top computer

Crime lab backlog ‘too long’ for crimes against children

Hundreds of investigations of online child sexual exploitation and CP have been significantly delayed by backlogs at FBI cybercrime labs, according to a Justice Department report released Friday. An audit conducted more than a year ago by the department’s inspector

The future of Forensic Focus – have your say!

A very short survey (10 questions) has been created in an attempt to clarify what aspects of the Forensic Focus site visitors find important, what areas they feel are less useful and what they would like to see added in

Data Wiping Myth Put to Rest

Several computer forensic experts have tackled the legend that, in order to properly protect it from recovery, data stored on an HDD needs to be overwritten multiple times. According to their scientific study, doing it a single time is enough,

UK police ‘encouraged’ to hack more

The Home Office has signed up to an EU strategy against cybercrime that “encourages” police across Europe to remotely access personal computers. The plan has sparked fears that the government is looking to increase police powers to hack into people’s

Computer forensics helped solve Craigslist robberies

Durham County prosecutors who wrapped up two robbery cases last week involving the online classifieds site Craigslist say computer forensics played a key role in the case…Durham County Assistant District Attorney Stormy Ellis said Durham police were able to trace

Computer forensics – a subject every executive should understand

One of the least researched, but most important subject areas for the future of business is the field of computer forensics. It’s a huge area and a massive challenge for all organisations that rely on digital transactions. In the past,

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Compiling evidence boils down to a matter of time

IT needs a consistent approach to creating timestamps for forensic computing. Whenever evidence about what is found on a hard drive is put before courts, the lawyers usually fail to ask the right question. They want to know whether certain

MacOSXForensics.com and Purdue University Partnership

MacOSXForensics.com has announced that their team and the Cyber Forensics Lab of Purdue University are going to partner on forensic tool development. Dr. Marc Rogers and his team will be reviewing the source code of the tools in question.. More

SIM PIN Challenge

Our resident mobile forensics expert, Greg Smith, has posted a SIM PIN Challenge in the new Mobile Forensics forum. Full details can be found here. Good luck, everyone!

So You Want to Be a Cybersleuth?

Rick Ayers doesn’t look much like the geek he says he has always been. A former golfer and rock guitarist, six feet tall, with a weight lifter’s build, long hair and a soul patch, Mr. Ayers, 37, stands out in

Gujarat DFS now able to access damaged SIM cards

A gangster senses that the police are behind him and he could be caught any time. To save his established network of goons and even high-profile people, he extracts the Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) of his mobile phone and chews

Damaged DVD Recovery and Forensics

“My friend, Xenon, recently pointed me to an article on digitial forensics. According to the report, the conviction of the accused was dependent on the recorded testimony of one of the victims. Unfortunately, the recording was saved on a DVD,

BKForensics reveals the secrets of the cell phone

True story: The Orlando (Fla.) Police Department is taking a homicide suspect to trial. The bad guy’s cell phone is being held as evidence. Apply sophisticated software to reconstruct deleted files and — what have we here? We see the

Voom Technologies Releases HardCopy 3

Voom Technologies (www.voomtech.com) has released HardCopy 3 (HC3), a faster, upgraded and enriched version of their renowned HardCopy 2 computer forensics hard-drive duplicator. HC3 offers data transfer speeds of up to 7.5 GB/min., eclipsing Voom’s own HardCopy 2. The HC3