4th August 2025

Digital Forensics Jobs Round-Up, August 04 2025
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Explore a selection of the latest DFIR employment opportunities in this week’s Forensic Focus jobs round-up....

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Collaborative Forensics: Overcoming Challenges In Multi-Jurisdictional Investigations

Collaborative Forensics: Overcoming Challenges In Multi-Jurisdictional Investigations

31st July 2025

Discover expert strategies for cross-border investigations in Exterro’s on-demand webinar....read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, July 30 2025

Digital Forensics Round-Up, July 30 2025

30th July 2025

Read the latest DFIR news – Epstein video analysis by ex-FBI experts, stress warning signs in forensics, Raspberry Pi toolkit “Toby,” PDF tampering risks, SWGDE timing advance guidance, and more....read more

S21 Spotlight Transcriber – Slow, Manual Transcription Or Insecure Online Service? There’s A Better Way.

S21 Spotlight Transcriber – Slow, Manual Transcription Or Insecure Online Service? There’s A Better Way.

30th July 2025

Tired of risky online transcription tools? Discover a faster, fully offline alternative built for secure investigations....read more

Court helps Ryanair trace staff pilots who criticised on-line

An Irish judge has awarded Ryanair an injunction to prevent the destruction of web site user data in a court battle over the identities of its pilots who criticised the airline’s working practices in an on-line forum for Ryanair pilots,

Microsoft fighting cybercrime

Microsoft is developing analytical tools to help international law enforcement agencies track and fight cybercrime. Microsoft unveiled the tools development program at the kickoff on Wednesday of three days of technical training for Australian law enforcement agencies. The Forensic Computing

Aussie Feds target computer forensics

Australia’s hi-tech crime squad has vowed to change the perception of the internet as an anonymous haven to one where users are not as nameless as they might think. At a three-day computer forensics workshop in Canberra Federal Police Australian

Net fingerprints combat attacks

Eighty large net service firms have switched on software to spot and stop net attacks automatically. The system creates digital fingerprints of ongoing incidents that are sent to every network affected. Firms involved in the smart sensing system believe it

Jeff Weise’s e-mail trail led authorities to Jourdain

It’s hard to cover your tracks on your computer. Deleted files aren’t immediately deleted. And software programs on most PCs keep all sorts of data trails, recording the Web sites you visit, the pictures you look at, the e-mails you

Online CP investigation costs UK police £15m

The cost of forensically examining the computers seized during the UK police’s Operation Ore investigation into online CP will total £15m, according to the National Crime Squad (NCS). Operation Ore was launched after the FBI smashed an illegal CP ring

Expert rejects Lundy evidence

A computer forensics expert who has spent up to 400 hours examining evidence in the Mark Lundy murder case says he has ruled out police claims that Lundy manipulated a computer clock to give himself an alibi. The Crown at

Can computers survive cross-examination?

Between my fingers typing these words and the Word application which records them there is a huge range of different programs, not all of which I know intimately. If even a simple document such as this is potentially affected by

UK MP to raise bill to boost computer crime laws

Derek Wyatt, chairman of the All Party Internet Group, is to raise a 10 minute rule bill in the Commons next month calling for the Computer Misuse Act to be strengthened. The move follows a campaign by Computer Weekly, businesses

Super Resolution: Making the invisible visible

Intel is developing a technology that promises to uncover hidden information in digital images and videos and create output files of significantly higher resolution and quality. “Super Resolution” (SR) consumes enormous computing resources, but is on track to reduce the

Judge in Jackson trial: Computer images inadmissible

Computers seized from Michael Jackson’s bedroom and containing stored images of naked women from adult Web sites are not admissible at the singer’s child-molestation trial, Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville ruled Wednesday. Melville said he barred the materials because it

Kroll Ontrack Honors “Thought Leaders” in Electronic Discovery

Kroll Ontrack(R) has honored top legal professionals with its third annual Electronic Evidence Thought Leadership Awards. Award recipients include law firms, litigators, practice support professionals and scholars who have shown excellence and leadership in the field of electronic discovery. More

Crime fighters solve crimes by examining cell phones

Modern detectives are now using cell phone forensics to capture more and more criminals. Forensics, the science of preserving, extracting and examining data, has long been confined to computers. Now, with the help of cell phone seizure kits like the

Speak up to beat cybercriminals

The police have long complained that organisations that are the victims of computer crime are reluctant to come forward for fear an investigation will cripple their business as the police seize servers and PCs as evidence. On the other hand,

New paper: Computer Forensics – A Business Tool

A new paper, “Computer Forensics – A Business Tool”, by Andy Fox of Audax Digital Forensics is now online and can be read at http://www.forensicfocus.com/computer-forensics-business-tool