7th August 2025

More Than Software: Amped Training Teaches You The Science Of Forensic Video And Image Analysis
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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

Safeguarding ICAC Investigators: Detego Global’s Commitment To Mental Well-Being

Safeguarding ICAC Investigators: Detego Global’s Commitment To Mental Well-Being

5th August 2025

Protecting children online shouldn't come at the cost of investigators' mental health—see how Detego Global is changing the game....read more

UK Computer Misuse Act could ban security tools

The new Police and Justice Act, published today, could criminalise legitimate IT security activity. There are fears amongst security experts that changes it makes to the Computer Misuse Act will make it illegal to distribute some vital tools. The new

Cyber sleuths

Computer forensic analysts – the consulting detectives of the digital world – are in big demand as computer-related evidence proves increasingly critical in solving crimes. In the days of Raymond Chandler’s wise-cracking sleuth Philip Marlowe, the proverbial “smoking gun” was

GetData Releases Mount Image Pro Version 2

GetData Software has released Version 2 of its forensic software, Mount Image Pro, already in use by the FBI, US Secret Service and some of the world’s major police forces. Mount Image Pro™ Version 2 (MIP v2), a forensic investigation

LTU Technologies Releases Image-Seeker for Encase

LTU Technologies announced today the release of LTU Image-Seeker for Encase® (ISE), an integration enhancing image analysis capabilities for the computer forensics tool used by law enforcement and government investigators. Delivered as a plug-in for the industry-standard Encase® platform, ISE

Trends in Digital Forensics

Digital forensics has been forced to change. In the past, when someone was suspected of a crime or behavior that was in violation of corporate policy, the typical process would be to seize the hard drive after hours, take a

Policing Employees’ Online Access at Work

Once an employee is suspected of abusing workplace technology and an investigation begins, the question becomes: How does the company ensure that it has a solid case and can withstand assertions of liability against the company by the employee or

Digital Evidencing In India: A Techno-Legal Perspective

The aim of this article is to analyse the existing legal position regarding collection, analysis and use of cyber evidence in India. The same is an essential part of cyber law in India as computer forensics and cyber law in

SDFOST – Call for Papers

The First International Workshop on Spoofing, Digital Forensics and Open Source Tools (SDFOST), in conjunction with ARES-2007 – The Second International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security The conference will be held at the Vienna University of Technology (TU) in

Technology experts call new US law burdensome

Three technology experts testified Monday that a new federal law’s restrictions on access to evidence in CP cases would discourage them from working for defendants in such cases… More (dailypress.com)

APWG & NCFS Establish First Electronic Crime Research Conference

The eCrime Researchers Summit in Orlando sponsored by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) and the National Center for Forensic Science (NCFS) next month will feature some of the most advanced applied research into electronic crime technology ever assembled in a

Making e-crime mainstream

In the words of the Metropolitan Police, computer crime needs to be ‘mainstreamed’ – brought into the law enforcement fold instead of being seen as something different. It would be a fair analogy to say that the situation is similar

Northumbria University starts work on Computer Forensics

Northumbria University has joined forces with IT security firm Sapphire in a collaboration to share knowledge and expertise and develop the North East UK as a hub for computer forensic specialists. Sapphire provides clients with a range of computer forensics

WinHex & X-Ways Forensics 13.5 released

WHAT’S NEW IN V13.5? When searching for keywords and you are not interested in each and every search hit, but merely in a list of files that contain at least one the specified keywords, the logical search now allows you

Ireland to host Europe-wide cyber crime police training

Ireland will play host to international cyber crime training events for European law enforcement officers at the Garda College in Templemore, siliconrepublic.com has learned. According to Detective Inspector Paul Gillen, who is project manager of the programme, the training courses