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

U.S. Leads World in Computer Crime

The United States generates more malicious computer activity than any other country, and sophisticated hackers worldwide are banding together in highly efficient crime rings, according to a new report. Researchers at Cupertino-based Symantec Corp. also found that fierce competition in

LTU and Microsoft Join Forces to Catch Cyber-Criminals

To turbo-charge child-abuse investigations, LTU Technologies has combined two investigative tools that will provide enhanced resources for victim identification and rescue. In response to a request by the Italian Police, the Child Exploitation Tracking System (CETS) and LTU’s Image-Seeker have

WinHex, X-Ways Forensics, X-Ways Investigator 13.9 released

WHAT’S NEW? * Forensic licenses only: Ability to open remote network drives at a logical level, if a drive letter has been assigned locally. The directory browser, File mode, Preview mode, Gallery mode, and Calendar mode are all available. A

Tracking terrorists with click of a mouse

Tucked away in a squat, 1980s-era office park halfway between Washington and Baltimore, 200 digital detectives are scouring the hard drives, MP3 players and compact discs seized from terrorist hide-outs in search of links and clues to their next plans

Military computer probe may have altered evidence

The ability of investigators to track some of Joe Grozelle’s last actions before he disappeared may have been hampered by a military investigator who accessed the cadet’s computer before it was handed over to police experts, an inquest heard yesterday.

Black Hat DC: Feds seek new digital forensic tools

Jim Christy has spent most of his adult life chasing computer criminals and in his 30 years on the job, he has seen suspects try every conceivable trick to hide their digital tracks, including cutting floppies in half with pinking

SubRosaSoft offers free digital forensics training CD

SubRosaSoft has released a free training CD for its MacForensicsLab digital forensics application. The CD looks at forensic investigation and walks the user through an investigation step-by-step using MacForensicsLab, which is designed for law enforcement professionals and investigators… More (Macworld)

Computer crime expert testifies at McGuire trial

Shortly before William McGuire was shot and dismembered, his home computer was used to research such Internet topics as: ”How to purchase guns in Pennsylvania,” ”instant poisons,” and ”how to commit murder,” a computer crime analyst told a jury in

Technology helping investigators

In some aspects, changing technology may be making the job tougher for computer forensics investigators, but it also has proven to be a valuable tool. In the past three or four years, detectives have found that computer forensics investigations can

National Computer Forensic Institute Unveiled

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Alabama state officials unveiled today the National Computer Forensic Institute in Hoover, Ala., that will assist in the field of computer forensics and digital evidence analysis. The institute will be developed by the

World’s Largest Steganography Application Hash Set – Free for LE

Backbone Security’s Steganography Analysis and Research Center (SARC) is pleased to announce the release of version 3.0 of SAFDB. With the fingerprints, or hash values, of every file artifact associated with 625 steganography applications, SAFDB is the world’s largest commercially

Digging for dirt in our computers

Welcome to the world of computer forensic investigation and the life of Allan Watt. A leading computer forensics investigator in New Zealand, Mr Watt now heads the newly formed Paragon Forensics in Albany. The company has the largest civilian forensic

Submissions Now Being Accepted for Timothy Fidel Award

Guidance Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:GUID), the world leader in digital investigationsâ„¢, today announced the Timothy Fidel Memorial Award Committee, whose judges act as the decision-making body for the award given in memoriam of Special Agent Tim Fidel, a pioneer and tireless

‘The Eight E’s’: Ascending the Computer Forensics Ladder

Though computer forensics is a young discipline, it’s not the exclusive province of new graduates of computer forensics degree programs. It’s a natural career extension for IT and law enforcement professionals and peripatetic lawyers with a dominant geek gene. Expertise