31st July 2025

Collaborative Forensics: Overcoming Challenges In Multi-Jurisdictional Investigations
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Digital Forensics Round-Up, July 30 2025

Digital Forensics Round-Up, July 30 2025

30th July 2025

Read the latest DFIR news – Epstein video analysis by ex-FBI experts, stress warning signs in forensics, Raspberry Pi toolkit “Toby,” PDF tampering risks, SWGDE timing advance guidance, and more....read more

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

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

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

Discover how Adapt & Evolve is helping transform digital forensic units through trauma-informed, evidence-based workshops on stress, psychological safety, and leadership....read more

New Master’s Degrees in Digital Forensics approved at UCF

The UCF Board of Trustees on Thursday approved the creation of new master’s degree programs in Digital Forensics. The master’s degree in Digital Forensics will prepare students to work in government or private forensics labs or as industry experts in

Snap-happy criminals and cellphone forensics

Cellphone forensics do present some challenges. Unlike personal computers, cellphones feature a multitude of proprietary operating systems, requiring investigators to use different methods for extracting data from different phones. By law, police making an arrest aren’t allowed to examine a

Kroll Ontrack Opens Singapore Office

Kroll Ontrack , a provider of data recovery products and services has extended its operations with the opening of a Singapore office this week. Headquartered in Minneapolis,Minnesota, Kroll Ontrack said its decision to open a Singapore branch was a direct

X-Ways Forensics, X-Ways Investigator 14.6 released

WHAT’S NEW? * Ability to completely access media, RAIDs and interpreted image files with more than 4.3 billion (2^32) sectors. Allows to read data from beyond the 2 TB barrier on media with a sector size of 512 bytes. *

UK’s Met Police push for new e-crime unit

A number of high profile incidents have led to a growing clamour of support from security industry experts and the public alike, which today was endorsed by the head of computer crime at the Metropolitan Police. Detective Superintendent Charlie McMurdie,

Deloitte doubles its computer forensic practice in Australia

Professional services firm Deloitte has doubled the size of its computer forensic and electronic discovery group following a merger with Forensic Data. The Australian firm, which specialises in data recovery, data conversion, electronic discovery and computer forensics, provides consulting services

Botnet sting nets U.S., New Zealand cyber-criminals

The FBI this week announced progress on a computer crime initiative aimed at thwarting the use of “botnets” to disrupt Internet communications. The investigation, dubbed Operation Bot Roast II, has netted eight arrests around the US, and, with the help

AFIT cyber warriors win digital forensics challenge

A team of four computer science and cyber operations graduate students from the Air Force Institute of Technology combined their cyber skills and interest in digital forensics to win the Grand Champion trophy at the annual DOD Cyber Crime Center

Up-to-speed on hi-tech crime in Fiji

Having first descended onto the shores of Fiji in 1996 as a British police officer researching global computer criminal activity, the response and capabilities by law enforcement agencies, I found myself a decade later returning as part of an international

Digital DNA: A Look Inside the FBI’s Computer Crime Lab

Buffalo is home to one of the FBI’s 14 Regional Computer Forensics Labs, or RCFLs. It’s here local, state and federal examiners team up to break down computers, cell phones, and iPods in search of evidence from a crime. Just

Tougher penalties for cyberterrorists

Officials at the United Arab Emirates information security conference are calling for tougher penalties against cyberterrorism and for better forensics…Kevin Mansell, managing director of the British-based digital forensics training and consultancy firm Control-F, urged UAE officials to utilize mobile-phone forensics

Computer Forensic ‘Expert’ Witnesses, Who is Representing You?

Computer forensic experts deal with some of the most grave and serious of criminal cases that involve digital evidence. However it may be surprising to hear that currently there is no regulatory body to ensure the quality of their work,

The computer detectives

Damon Hacker knows better than anyone else the kind of electronic fingerprints we leave behind on a daily basis. Did you use a computer today? A cell phone? A Blackberry? Swipe a card to enter your workplace? Drive a car?

Data Recovery Planning Being Neglected

According to a new survey by Kroll Ontrack, many companies are neglecting data recovery when formulating their compliance policies and opening themselves up to unnecessary risk. In an e-mail survey of 100 users, the company found that despite 78 percent