14th August 2025

Enterprise Turns To AI For Speed And Accuracy In DFIR
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Magnet Forensics explores how AI is revolutionizing speed and accuracy in DFIR....

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Breaking Digital Barriers: Galaxy S25 & Z Flip Fully Supported

Breaking Digital Barriers: Galaxy S25 & Z Flip Fully Supported

14th August 2025

Gain full filesystem access to the latest Samsung Galaxy devices with MD-NEXT....read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 13 2025

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 13 2025

13th August 2025

Read the latest DFIR news – evidence of Kohberger’s detailed murder preparations, an alarming rise in child sextortion cases, Brian Carrier’s new mini-course on automation and AI in forensics, and more....read more

Well-Being In Digital Forensics And Policing: Insights From Hannah Bailey

Well-Being In Digital Forensics And Policing: Insights From Hannah Bailey

12th August 2025

Hannah Bailey shares her journey from frontline policing to founding Blue Light Wellbeing, explaining why culturally-aware mental health support is crucial for DFIs and frontline workers....read more

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

The profit motives of cyber criminals

Following the 2006 International Virus Bulletin Conference, Kelly Martin takes a look at the profit motives of the cyber criminals behind modern viruses, targeted trojans, phishing scams and botnet attacks that are stealing millions from organizations and individuals… More (SecurityFocus)

Digital Trail Helps Lead To Terror Hoax Suspect

A federal prosecutor says computer forensics played a “critical role” in the investigation that led to the arrest of a Wisconsin man in connection with the fake terrorist threat against football stadiums… More (InformationWeek)

Data recovery experts cleaning up

THE popularity of digital cameras and the growth in portable storage is driving demand for data recovery services, with firms charging up to $3500 to pull data from fried drives. The recovery sector – traditionally serving small businesses that lose

DOJ official: Cybercrime cooperation advances

Christopher Painter, principal deputy chief of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, attended the G8 24/7 High Tech Crime Network meeting last week in Rome. The network started in 1997 with the G8 countries, which

Fighting crime, byte by byte

Charleston’s digital detectives unearth fragile evidence, and they sift through mind-boggling amounts of data to get to it. Deleted cell phone text messages, photos hidden in strings of numeric code, logs of Web addresses. All could provide breakthroughs in a

Lenovo Equips ThinkPad Notebooks With Disk Encryption

Lenovo announced this week that it is arming its ThinkPad notebooks with the ability to fully encrypt the hard drive to bolster security. Lenovo’s latest technology move links fingerprint identity to the active directory. The fingerprint swipe recognizes 30 data

New center to help Kentucky police in crimes involving computers

A new digital forensics center opened Thursday in Louisville, a move Kentucky law enforcement said will help them catch and prosecute criminals. The Kentucky Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory will serve as a central place for law enforcement officers to seek

E-discovery Sanctions are Turning Unforgiving

As e-discovery becomes the most common method to collect evidence, court sanctions for evidence tampering get unforgiving. In a recent decision, a Massachusetts District court granted summary judgment for defendant and allowed defendant to recover costs and attorney fees when