24th April 2025

Digital Forensics Round-Up, April 24 2025
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Read the latest DFIR news – Microsoft’s ReFS brings new forensic hurdles, a UK expert calls for digital evidence reform post-Horizon, SWGDE updates audio enhancement best practices, and more....

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The DFIR Investigative Mindset: Brett Shavers On Thinking Like A Detective

The DFIR Investigative Mindset: Brett Shavers On Thinking Like A Detective

23rd April 2025

Brett Shavers joins the Forensic Focus Podcast to discuss the critical "investigative mindset" needed for effective digital forensics....read more

2025 MD-Series Q1 Release Note Highlights

2025 MD-Series Q1 Release Note Highlights

23rd April 2025

GMDSOFT unveils major MD-Series upgrades—enhancing drone forensics and global number plate restoration....read more

AI And eDiscovery: A New Era In Legal Technology

AI And eDiscovery: A New Era In Legal Technology

22nd April 2025

Find out how AI is revolutionizing eDiscovery—streamlining legal review, cutting costs, and raising new ethical questions....read more

More investigators needed to handle computer crime in Maine (US)

When it comes to computer crimes, especially against children, those in law enforcement should not be trying to do more with less. But that is exactly what the Maine Computer Crimes Task Force is doing these days, according to Col.

Criminal IT: What you can do to help the fight against cybercrime

Neil Barrett gives some insight into how IT workers can help law enforcement and expert witnesses like himself when prosecuting cybercriminals. My day job is a rather unusual one; I’m a computer expert witness, principally in criminal prosecutions and primarily

Fraud Prevention on Top of Agenda for Corporate Boards in 2005

Computer forensics have played a lead role in fraud investigations for some time. In the coming year, look for the emergence of real-time, diagnostic software that will enable corporations to detect “red flags” of potential accounting fraud or other types

Feds square off with organized cyber crime

At the RSA Conference on Thursday Ronald Plesco, counsel to the National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance, a computer forensics organization established by the FBI and private industry, pointed to the trend in recent years of spammers building networks of compromised

Investigators uncover dismal data disposal

An investigation into the disposal of computer equipment has uncovered psychological reports on school-children, confidential company data and even details of an illicit affair on hard drives that should have been wiped clean. Universities, schools and global businesses are routinely

USA’s Sixth Cyber Lab Opened in Silicon Valley

The FBI calls them Regional Computer Forensics Laboratories, or RCFLs. Their specialty? The cyber equivalent of dusting for fingerprints: finding evidence of criminal and terrorist activity on PCs, laptops, cell phones, digital cameras, MP3 players, PDAs, DVD recorders, and other

Book review of Windows Forensics and Incident Recovery

Harlan Carvey is a Windows security instructor who created his own 2-day, hands-on course in Windows incident response and forensic investigations. This book shares some of Carvey’s extensive knowledge and expertise in recognizing and responding to attacks on Windows systems

ProDiscover 4.0 Adds Perl Scripting and Expanded Volatile Data Capability

Technology Pathways, LLC has announced ProDiscover Incident Response 4.0, with support for Perl scripting and expanded capabilities for volatile data capture and analysis. With support for Perl version 5, information security and cyber-crime investigators can develop scripts to search and

Taking a bite out of cybercrime

The call sounded like an advertisement for a credit card security plan. Someone in London had purchased a piece of Americana, a toy tractor from Ohio, with the credit card number of an Old Colony Road resident. Capital One credit

Piracy case: log files ‘don’t show downloads’

An expert witness in the MP3s4free.net music piracy case has conceded to the Federal Court in Sydney that log files seized in a 2003 raid did not show music actually being downloaded. During cross-examination and after long arguments about the

Teachers cleared in school probe

Forensic computing techniques proved decisive in proving staff at a Buckinghamshire primary school had not been surfing for porn at work. The head of the school called in Disklabs, a computer forensics and data firm, last year when he discovered

Phishing suspect arrested in the UK

UK Police have arrested a 21-year-old man they suspect of running a phishing scam that targeted customers of online bank Smile. The unnamed man has been released on bail while a specialist data forensics team examines computer equipment that was

The secret war against hackers

Gavin Hyde-Blake, the manager of IT forensics at Carratu International, the corporate investigation company, offers a crumb of comfort to besieged corporates. “Most hackers are lazy,” he says. “Make their life difficult and most will walk away.” More (Telegraph)

Seize the data

You can dust for fingerprints after a robbery, but you wouldn’t dust a hard drive after a cybercrime. That’s where computer forensics comes in. It helps law enforcement agents copy and analyze information stored on hard drives and devices such

Real-life CSI vastly different than what’s on TV

Crime scene investigators for the Warner Robins Police Department (US) have a lot of the crime-fighting gadgets that actors do on the popular CSI television shows. And there are other similarities between what real-life CSI investigators do and what’s portrayed