7th August 2025

More Than Software: Amped Training Teaches You The Science Of Forensic Video And Image Analysis
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The Balance Between Digital Forensic Examiners And Digital Evidence Technicians: Expertise Vs. Efficiency

The Balance Between Digital Forensic Examiners And Digital Evidence Technicians: Expertise Vs. Efficiency

7th August 2025

Can digital forensic labs cut backlogs without cutting corners? Debbie Garner explores how tiered workflows using both examiners and technicians can strike the right balance....read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 06 2025

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 06 2025

6th August 2025

Read the latest DFIR news – starting a digital forensic business, Hashcat v7.0.0, GenAI incident response guidance, cross-border investigation challenges, and more....read more

Halfway Through The S21 Transcriber Spotlight Session

Halfway Through The S21 Transcriber Spotlight Session

6th August 2025

We are halfway through the S21 Transcriber Spotlight — catch up on the latest demos and see how investigators are using the tool in real casework....read more

Deep inside the Serious Fraud Office’s digital forensics unit

Deep inside London’s legal quarter, a camera is fastened tightly over the latest mobile device, scrutinising every move the Serious Fraud Office is taking in its digital forensics unit. There is no room for error. If the unit’s forensic scientists

Guidance Software Launches Online Training Program

Guidance Software Inc. today announced the launch of its EnCase® On Demand training program which grants online access to the company’s courses in enterprise investigations (internal investigations, eDiscovery) and forensic investigations (law enforcement, fraud). The program’s inaugural offerings—EnCase Computer Forensics

F-Response to be bundled with X-Ways Software Technology AG’s X-Ways Forensics

Agile Risk Management LLC announces today that an agreement has been reached with X-Ways Software Technology AG to allow the reselling and bundling of Agile’s F-Response Remote Forensics software with X-Ways Forensics, X-Ways’s premier computer forensic application…X-Ways Forensics (www.x-ways.com) is

New versions of Oxygen Forensic programs

New versions of Oxygen Forensic programs have been released. Oxygen Forensic v2.17.5 for Nokia and Vertu phones: Licensing – Oxygen Forensic for Nokia and Vertu phones is now included in Oxygen Forensic Suite 2 package.Calendar – Added possibility of tasks

Vere Software Launches WebCase

WebCase(TM), the flagship product of Vere Software, enables law enforcement, corporations and government agencies to collect, preserve and present, from the Internet, evidentiary data including web captures, video recording, TCP/IP collection, image captures, keystroke logging and chat collection… More (VereSoftware)

Fresh New Face for Forensics Tool

A lot of IT professionals who get started with forensics see graphical forensic applications like Encase and Forensic Toolkit (FTK), and they get turned off when they see that the Sleuth Kit is a collection of command-line utilities. While there

Video of detective detailing Entwistle computer searches

A computer forensic expert continued testimony Wednesday in the Neil Entwistle murder trial. Police detective Lawrence James discussed with he found during a search of Entwistle’s laptop computer. Lawrence James told a Middlesex Superior Court jury yesterday that Entwistle did

Man Cleared of CP Charges After Hiring Computer Forensics Expert

[Here’s an article with more technical details on this earlier story – Jamie] Here’s a lesson for computer neophytes – when you get accused of having CP on your computer, subsequently get fired, lose your friends and family and face

How To Take Back Control Of The Discovery Process And Control Litigation Costs

For in-house attorneys, the costs of discovery rise when Electronically Stored Information (ESI) is uncontrolled. The objective of the litigation readiness process is to make sure that the IT professionals and the legal professionals, who certainly speak different languages, understand

Malware not man blamed in child abuse download case

A Department of Industrial Accidents investigator has been cleared of CP possession charges after a forensic investigation revealed that malware was to blame for depraved smut on his company laptop. Michael Fiola, 53, of Rhode Island, went through a massive

Internet companies to block CP sites

Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable have agreed to block Internet bulletin boards and websites nationwide that disseminate CP, New York’s attorney general announced on Tuesday. The ISPs also agreed with New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to contribute more

Weak Evidence Links Congressmen’s Cyber-attacks to China

U.S. House of Representatives members who worry that China may have been responsible for attacks on their computers have provided little evidence to back up their claims, according to computer security experts…”It’s so very hard to conclude that something came

Live Acquisition and Triage tool for Law Enforcement

WetStone Technologies, Inc. announces U3 Live Investigator, a live acquisition and triage tool using U3 technology that is being created under the USB Live Acquisition and Triage Tool (US-LATT) contract funded by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ). U3 Live

North Wales Police launch firm to crack e-crime

North Wales Police have launched a crime fighting business to step up their fight against computer and mobile phone crime. Police and BIC Innovation have joined forces to launch DATRIS – Data Recovery & Investigation Service – a private enterprise