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

Spam trail uncovers junk empire

An investigation into a seemingly routine series of spam messages has revealed how sophisticated the business of online crime has become. The story begins with the junk mail messages themselves that were sent during April and May of 2006… More

Sheriff seeks task force to combat online crime

The Boone County Sheriff’s Department is seeking funding for a new interagency computer crimes task force to combat online CP, identity theft and fraud. “There’s just a huge gamut of offenses that are occurring on a daily basis,” said Boone

Ten Ways to Mow Down EDD Costs

Electronic data discovery costs less than paper discovery. Honest. In comparable volumes, it’s cheaper to collect, index, store, copy, transport, search and share electronically stored information. But we hoard data with an indiscriminate tenacity we’d label mental illness if we

Forensic Investigation To Be Done On Casino Machine!

After a closed-door meeting between a man who claims he won a $250,000 jackpot and the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, it is still a waiting game. On Aug. 29, Freddy Howard swiped his Players Club card in one of

Sri Lanka computer crime bill “celebrates” first anniversary

A bill to counter computer crimes is stuck in parliament for over a year, illustrating the daunting task facing those who try to modernise laws to take Sri Lanka towards a digital age, officials said Friday. The law was first

Forensics a ‘must’…

Businesses have been told they must gain an understanding of computer forensics if they are to keep pace with the growing level of threat from within the enterprise. Bruce Nikkel, head of the IT investigation and forensics department at UBS,

BDF steps up its game in the area of digital forensics

Members of the Barbados Defence Force have stepped up their game in the fight against computer related crime. Sixteen BDF officers of various ranking recently completed the Digital Forensics Course and they received their certificates at the Barbados Defence Force

Looking for foul play – digital forensics Part 2

What must be proven before charges can be brought against a suspected offender? What are the initial steps carried out when commencing a forensic examination? Ian Kennedy continues his look at computer forensics… More (BCS)

Guidance Software Files For IPO

Pasadena-based Guidance Software, a developer of software used for digital forensics, has filed for an IPO. Guidance, in an SEC filing Friday, said it is looking to raise up to $80M in an IPO on the Nasdaq under the symbol

Cyber crime becoming more organised

Cyber scams are increasingly being committed by organised crime syndicates out to profit from sophisticated ruses rather than hackers keen to make an online name for themselves, according to a top U.S. official. Christopher Painter, deputy chief of the computer

URI to receive nearly $600,000 to improve forensic research

In an effort to improve forensic research in Rhode Island, the U.S. Department of Justice has announced that the University of Rhode Island will receive $599,793 to purchase improved computer software technology. The money will be dispersed in two grants

What it’s like to be a computer forensics specialist

During his law enforcement days Harry Megerian got his hands on a lot of IT gear – by brute force. “We probably did a raid once a week or once every two weeks,” says Megerian, a former computer forensics specialist

Forensic toolkit harvests cellphone data

A new breed of forensic tools, designed with the help of Whangarei-based Thackray Forensics, can now access and clone the full contents of a mobile phone or PDA within seconds. Managing director John Thackray is one of a handful of

TSK 2.06 and Autopsy 2.08 released

From Brian Carrier: Major improvements for TSK are fixes for segfaults that were discussed on the mailing list, new versions of libewf and afflib that add support for the SMART format and that fix some compile bugs (respectively), and …

New Sleuthkit Windows Executables Release

From Brian Carrier: The Windows executables that were released last week did not run on everyone’s systems. A second release is out that uses different compileoptions. http://www.sleuthkit.org/sleuthkit/download.php

Computer Forensic Examiners Lead the Way on Assistance to Those in Need

As expert members of the international computer forensics community which provides unique and highly desirable services to the legal system, we assume a responsibility to provide services to those in need yet unable to pay. As a result, the Computer