13th August 2026

Protecting Those Who Protect Children: Inspection Findings And The Evidence Base For Investigator Well-Being
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A major new HMICFRS report exposes the urgent need for proactive, mandatory mental health support for digital forensic investigators and others working daily with online child sexual abuse material....

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UPCOMING WEBINAR – Reducing ICAC Backlogs: Prioritizing Digital Evidence For Faster Investigations

UPCOMING WEBINAR – Reducing ICAC Backlogs: Prioritizing Digital Evidence For Faster Investigations

13th August 2026

Join Rich Frawley of ADF Solutions as he shares practical strategies for managing complex ICAC scenes, prioritizing the devices most likely to contain probative evidence, and making faster, more informed decisions in the field....read more

Unmasked: Early Intelligence Should Not Be Manual

Unmasked: Early Intelligence Should Not Be Manual

12th August 2026

Turn partial school badges into actionable leads with S21 School Badge Lookup v2.0, fast offline image intelligence built for CSAM and ICAC investigations worldwide....read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 12 2026

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 12 2026

12th August 2026

Read the latest DFIR news - NIST’s new ArtCat digital forensics catalog, Kohberger case methodology, Android intrusion log analysis, offline AI with BelkaGPT, and more....read more

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

Mobile spy software use almost always illegal, says expert

A piece of software which allows a user to track another person’s mobile phone use would be almost impossible to use in the UK without breaking the law, according to a surveillance law expert. Flexispy is the controversial software which

Acquire ewf images with ewfacquire on MacOSX/Freebsd/OpenBSD/Linux

Besides reading and writing (EnCase) EWF files with the libewf library, it’s now possible to read and write SMART images as well. With the ewfacquire tool you now can create a bit-copy image from devices in the SMART image format

High-tech lab fights crime of digital age

Imagine a laboratory filled with equipment advanced enough to locate deleted CP on a hard drive, recover old e-mails sent on a cell phone and trace the owner of a camera used to download photographs onto a laptop. Welcome to

ITNG 2007 Conference

In 2007, I will be chairing a conference session on Cyber/Digital forensics for ITNG in Las Vegas, NV. The International Conference on Information Technology- New Generations (ITNG) is an annual event focusing on state of the art technologies pertaining to

Computer forensics major introduced at Bloomsburg University

Bloomsburg University has introduced a new major that will train students to investigate the improper or illegal use of computers and digital devices, a field known as computer forensics. Computer forensics focuses on collecting, examining and presenting digitally stored evidence

CyberSpeak September 3, 2006

Two Former Federal Agents Talk About Computer Forensics, Network Security and Computer Crime… "This episode we have Keith Jones, Director of Computer Forensics, Incident Response, and Litigation Support for MANDIANT who recently testified as an expert witness in the UBS

Digital forensic tool to curb web abuse

An Information technology expert has designed a digital forensic tool that can home in on workplace computers used for criminal activity or deliberate misuse of the Internet. Bennie Fei, a masters student at the University of Pretoria, warned that there

Net browser promises private surf

A web browser has been released that promises total privacy for its users. Browzar, as it is known, automatically deletes all traces of the pages a person has visited, and the terms that they have searched for on the web…

Books give in-depth look into cybercrime

From M. E. Kabay’s newsletter at Network World… The fall 2006 semester has begun at Norwich University and I’ll be teaching “Cybercrime and Cyberlaw” with my colleague Adjunct Professor Julie Tower-Pierce. Readers of this column may be interested in two

Cyber Crime: The Wild West, Online

Forget about breaking and entering, aggravated assault and armed robbery. Cyber crime is taking over. While most of us use computers to work, shop, play games, book vacations, or do banking transactions, a new breed of criminal uses the same