20th August 2025

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 20 2025
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Read the latest digital forensics news – SANS releases DFIR Summit playlist, UAC launches v3.2.0, Neal Ysart discusses the Coalition of Cyber Investigators, and more....

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Wrapping Up The S21 Transcriber Spotlight Session – What We’ve Covered

Wrapping Up The S21 Transcriber Spotlight Session – What We’ve Covered

20th August 2025

Explore S21 Transcriber: a fully offline, court-ready tool with free 30-day access and training....read more

UPCOMING WEBINAR – Retail Under Siege: Fighting Back Against Ransomware With Next-Gen Forensics

UPCOMING WEBINAR – Retail Under Siege: Fighting Back Against Ransomware With Next-Gen Forensics

19th August 2025

Retailers face rising cyber threats—join Exterro's Sept 4 webinar to learn fast, modern forensic response strategies and protect your brand....read more

Digital Forensics Jobs Round-Up, August 18 2025

Digital Forensics Jobs Round-Up, August 18 2025

18th August 2025

Explore a selection of the latest DFIR employment opportunities in this week’s Forensic Focus jobs round-up....read more

A Data Discovery Department?

With the buzz surrounding electronic data discovery, which grows only louder as the need to find data stored electronically to support litigation increases, law firms and corporate clients are facing an important operational decision that might cause some friction in

TSK 2.09 Released

From Brian Carrier: Version 2.09 is now available. This release fixes some bugs for large files and hash databases on Windows, some stability bugs with corrupt file systems, some ‘ils’ flag bugs, and some updates to internal libraries. All users

ECS showcases its data recovery motherboard

Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) is showcasing its 945GCT-M motherboard which features data recovery technology built into the BIOS. The 945GCT-M has data recovery technology built in its BIOS, users do not need to rely on software or hard drive recovery

Amero supporters form The Julie Group

Supporters of Julie Amero, the former substitute teacher who was granted a new trial months after being convicted of exposing her students to pop-up porn, have formed an advocacy group to help people facing similar courtroom battles. Bearing Amero’s namesake,

Germany gets tough on computer crime

The German Parliament has ruled that many more categories of hacking are an illegal act and should be punishable like any other crime. It is now an offense to create, sell, distribute or even acquire so called Hacker Tools in

Schoolteacher granted new trial in spyware case

Connecticut schoolteacher Julie Amero, convicted in a classroom incident she says happened because spyware took over the computer at her desk, today was granted a new trial instead of a possible jail term. Amero, a substitute teacher, had faced a

Logicube Launches New Compact Forensic Data Capturing Solution

Logicube® Inc. will debut its newest addition to the company’s line of forensic data capturing solutions, the Forensic Quest®, at the TechnoSecurity 2007 Conference and Expo in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina this week. Quest’s design provides users with advanced features

AusCERT urges delegates to report computer crimes

On the final day of AusCERT 2007 on Queensland’s Gold Coast, the general manager of AusCERT, Graham Ingram, acknowledged that reporting computer crimes can be difficult but pleaded with delegates not to let these incidents go unreported. “I understand the

New Libewf, Expert Witness file format library, release

Ewfacquire acquires disk images faster than with EnCase LiNen. The ewftool ‘ewfacquire’ has been profiled and also been optimized. From test on the same hardware the ewfacquire tool was in most tests significantly faster than EnCase LiNen 5.04. Especially when

Courts Cast Wary Eye on Evidence Gleaned From Cell Phones

The afternoon of Sept. 18, 1993, someone set fire to a notorious Los Angeles drug house near the University of Southern California, killing an addict. Four years later, R&B singer Waymond Anderson was convicted of the murder, based on the

Filipino Cybersleuth Named World’s Best For 2007

A Filipino cybersleuth was awarded the world’s best computer investigator for 2007 by an international organization of computer forensics experts. Alexander Ramos, a computer forensics analyst with the Philippine National Police, was awarded the 2007 Timothy Fidel Memorial Award by

Computer Forensic Portable Lab for Field Applications

Intelligent Computer Solutions (ICS) has announced today the release of the latest version of its Portable Computer Forensic Lab: the Road MASSter 3. The unit has been used since it was first launched six years ago as a platform that

ESI Searches: Getting to the Drive

Sometimes, you’ve just got to “get to the drive.” That means securing forensically qualified duplicates of relevant computer disk drives used by the other side, and having them examined by a qualified expert. Often lumped together, it’s important to consider

AccessData launches Cyber Crime Investigation Boot Camps in India

AccessData Corporation and Foundation Futuristic Technologies P Ltd. (ForensicsGuru) today announced a joint partnership to launch a CyberCrime Investigation BootCamp Training Course in India. This instructor-lead course is intended for Forensic Investigators, Law Enforcement Personnel, and Security & Network Administrators

Boot EnCase and DD Images

GetData Software, authors of the computer forensic software Mount Image Pro, now offer VFC (Virtual Forensic Computing), British developed software that allows investigators to boot a forensic image of a suspect’s computer. With GetData’s Mount Image Pro v2 and MD5