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

Unlocking the power of computer crime evidence

Though computer evidence now appears in many cases, UK law is not clear on how to handle all this data. Neil Barrett discusses the measures being considered – and the effect they’ll have on computer crime prosecution… More (silicon.com)

IT Security Breach? Don’t just step in CSI Style

In every company in the UK there is likely to be a PC, and therefore an IT security breach is almost inevitable. These are the findings of the 2005 National High Tech Crime Unit report into the effect of computer

Seminar addresses digital forensics issues

Dr. Victor Fay-Wolfe, a computer science and statistics professor at the University of Rhode Island, spoke Friday in Pastore Chemical Laboratory concerning the field of digital forensics. Digital forensics, which Fay-Wolfe defined as “the application of forensic science technology to

Cyber crime business booming

Television crime shows such as “CSI” have brought the science of computer forensics to the forefront of public awareness. But just like about everything coveted by Hollywood, there exists a significant gap between art and reality. No one knows that

Version 3.0 EMail Detective released by Hot Pepper Technology, Inc.

Hot Pepper Technology, Inc. (http://www.hotpepperinc.com) has announced the release of version 3.0 of its E-Mail Detective – Forensic Software Tool. E-Mail Detective (EMD) provides investigators with a rapid and comprehensive method of retrieving all America Online E-mail messages and photos

Computer forensics making a difference

For the last four years, David Usery, 47, has been a man the public doesn’t see — a pivotal person behind thousands of criminal case investigations from the 9th judicial District Attorney’s Office and New Mexico State Police as well

Fighting cybercrime on a shoestring budget

In cramped, dingy offices near New York’s East River, a couple dozen detectives and analysts hunch over computers, plowing their way through hundreds of criminal cases. This is the home of the New York Police Department Computer Crime Squad. The

Digital fingerprint cracks the case

Last month, when Australian Federal Court Judge Murray Wilcox ruled that Kazaa is illegally authorising copyright infringement, he put Australia on the world map of landmark intellectual property cases – related cases against Kazaa in the US had previously failed.

Microsoft, Nigeria Join Forces Against Cybercrime

Microsoft Latest News about Microsoft is lending its I.T. expertise to the government of Nigeria in a joint effort to combat e-mail fraud and other cybercrimes in the African nation… More (Top Tech News)

Computer Evidence: Collection & Preservation

Computer Evidence: Collection and Preservation teaches law enforcement and computer forensics investigators how to identify, collect, and maintain digital artifacts to preserve their reliability for admission as evidence. The book focuses on collection and preservation because these two phases of

Secret tracking codes in laser printers cracked

The pages that are printed by your colour laser printer may include tiny dots, almost invisible to the naked eye. The dots form a code that can be read by the US Secret Service, ostensibly to track down counterfeiters. Now,

Cybercrooks lure citizens into international crime

Consumer-level financial fraud has been around since thieves first thought to filch blank checks from mailboxes. The Internet has taken it to a new level, not yet fully understood by the general public. By many measures, 2005 is shaping up

Cyber crime and the Indian Police force

I am often quizzed by friends on how savvy the Indian Police are in handling cyber crime. Although it is a few years since I left the force, I have been closely following trends of cyber investigation and Court decisions.

Computer forensics rises up the legal agenda

The legal profession is responding to the increasing importance of digital evidence in legal cases by extending its professional development training to include computer forensics. In the first of a series of presentations to 23 Essex Street, information forensics specialists

Specialist police units tackle computer crime

In April 2001, the government established a National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) to combat the growth of computer crime and solve serious crime. Some 43 local Hi-Tech Crime Units (HTCUs) were also set up to tackle similar offences at a

TSK 2.03 and Autopsy 2.06 now available

From the TSK/Autopsy announcement list: TSK 2.03 and Autopsy 2.06 are now available. They are mostly feature upgrades (there is 1 important bug fix in TSK for AMD64 users though!). The biggest new feature is Unicode support (which was kindly