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Digital Forensics Round-Up, July 30 2025

Digital Forensics Round-Up, July 30 2025

30th July 2025

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S21 Spotlight Transcriber – Slow, Manual Transcription Or Insecure Online Service? There’s A Better Way.

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30th July 2025

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Transforming Mental Health And Organisational Culture In Digital Forensics

Transforming Mental Health And Organisational Culture In Digital Forensics

28th July 2025

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LuciData Cracks Encrypted Laptop

LuciData Inc., a leading provider of internal threat management, e-discovery and computer forensic investigative services and solutions, today announced that it has successfully cracked a laptop encrypted with Pointsec Full Disk Encryption on behalf of a corporate client. While encryption

McMurdie steps down as head of e-crime in UK

Talks to discuss funding a national e-crime unit will open next week, but the Metropolitan Police Force is set to lose its second head of its e-crime unit in six months. Detective chief inspector Charlie McMurdie will meet Home Office

Centralised UK police unit to lead e-crime fight

A new centralised police unit tasked with tackling IT crime is set to get the official go-ahead, according to a leading computer crime officer. Speaking at the SecureLondon conference, hosted by security certification firm ISC2 last week, detective sergeant Clive

Linux tool speeds up computer forensics for cops

Australian university students have developed a Linux-based data forensics tool to help police churn through a growing backlog of computer-related criminal investigations. The tool was developed by students from Edith Cowan University’s School of Computing and Information Sciences and will

Nato says cyber warfare poses as great a threat as a missile attack

Nato is treating the threat of cyber warfare as seriously as the risk of a missile strike, according to a senior official. A London conference was told that online espionage and internet-based terrorism now represent some of the gravest threats

Devon and Cornwall Police’s Online Investigation team

An office block on a Devon industrial estate is not the most likely place to find detectives at the forefront of tackling internet-related paedophile crime. But this is the home of Devon and Cornwall Police’s Force Online Investigation team, which

Why no united front on cyber crime?

The growing influence of serious and organised crime in cyberspace is the focus of representatives from business, finance, government and law enforcement agencies at next week’s sixth international e-Crime Congress in London. This year even shadow home secretary David Davis

VMWare Vulnerability

Security researchers have discovered a bug in VMware desktop virtualization applications that allows attackers to take complete control of the underlying PC, including the execution or modification of files on the host operating system. The vulnerability, which was unearthed by

How a computer forensic investigation works

Many stories have come to light lately about people getting caught using their computer for nefarious purposes. Possession of confidential business secrets, CP or spreadsheets to track gambling activities have gotten a wide variety of folks in hot water. How

Philippine police say computer crimes on the rise

Computer crimes reported to police are on the rise, the Philippine National Police said Saturday. According to a briefing paper on cyber crimes prepared by the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, a total of 1,843 crimes involving computers were reported

Major Canadian hacker ring cracked

Canadian police have arrested 17 people suspected of running the country’s largest and most damaging hacker network. The Sûreté du Québec and Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested people in 12 locations in a co-ordinated series of dawn raids. The gang

Disk encryption may not be secure enough, new research finds

Computer scientists have discovered a novel way to bypass the encryption used in programs like Microsoft’s BitLocker and Apple’s FileVault and then view the contents of supposedly secure files. In a paper (PDF) published Thursday that could prompt a rethinking

Harbor Springs police go hi-tech

Early last year the Harbor Springs Police Department received grant money to purchase hardware and software to investigate digital crimes committed in Northern Michigan. Resident tech enthusiast at the department, officer Steve Timmons, was more than happy to take the

Searching Laptops at the US Border and In Airports

This month, the Asian Law Caucus (ALC) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), two civil liberties groups based in Northern California, filed a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to force the government to disclose its policies on

Secret printer ID codes may breach EU privacy laws

A little-noticed system that allows printed documents to be tracked by government agents has gotten the attention of the EU Commissioner for Justice Freedom and Security, who says the technology may violate EU human rights guarantees. The technology is baked