30th July 2025

Digital Forensics Round-Up, July 30 2025
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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....

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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

Transforming Mental Health And Organisational Culture In Digital Forensics

Transforming Mental Health And Organisational Culture In Digital Forensics

28th July 2025

Discover how Adapt & Evolve is helping transform digital forensic units through trauma-informed, evidence-based workshops on stress, psychological safety, and leadership....read more

Forensic Focus Digest, July 25 2025

Forensic Focus Digest, July 25 2025

25th July 2025

Discover what’s new on Forensic Focus – learn to recognise stress signals, see how MSAB and CRC are teaming up against online child abuse, help shape the future with Cellebrite’s 2026 industry trends survey, and more....read more

High-Tech Crimes Revealed: An Interview with Stephen Branigan

Stephen Branigan, one of the founders of the New York City task force on cybercrime and author of High-Tech Crimes Revealed: Cyberwar Stories from the Digital Front, talks to Seth Fogie about hacker motivations and how to solve cyber crimes.

Computer expert challenges barge defendant’s testimony

A computer forensics expert says a critical document presented to jurors was edited on one of the defendants’ work computers – contradicting the defendant’s testimony last week. That’s the latest in the fraud and conspiracy trial of four former Merrill

Sleuthing in the e-files

These days, the search for truth takes lawyers not into company file cabinets but into company computers. With 93 percent of business documents now “borne” electronically, the story of U.S. workplaces increasingly gets told on computer disks, spread sheets and

Forensic experts track printer fingerprints

Researchers at Purdue University have developed image analysis techniques that may one day help tie counterfeit money and forged documents to the printers that produced them. In lab experiments, the researchers examined documents that came from 12 different models of

Computer search hamstrung in Camden County, USA

Federal agents found CP links on a computer that had been sitting in the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office for seven months after it was seized from a Bellmawr man. But there was little authorities could have done to search the

UK IT security professionals offered fast-track computer crime course

IT professionals looking to gain computer forensic certification are being offered an accelerated six-day course by the Training Camp. The IT training provider said its course is aimed at e-security experts, police, military personnel, legal professionals and government agencies. It

Investigator serves search warrants to America Online

It takes a full-time Loudoun County deputy sheriff to handle all the search warrants served on America Online in Ashburn. The warrants are used to solve local, state and national crimes. More (The Connection Newspapers)

Technology helps police in CP operation

Australian Customs officials say the latest technologies are assisting them in detecting the importation of CP. A man will appear in court this morning after customs officers at Melbourne Airport seized computer disks from his luggage on his arrival from

Lab cleared to examine digital evidence

New Hampshire’s state forensic laboratory has become the third in the United States to receive national accreditation for examining digital evidence, including images stored on computer hard-drives. The accreditation was awarded by the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors, which

New downloads

The following files have been added to the downloads area: The Sleuth Kit Version 1.72 (source code)Autopsy Forensic Browser Version 2.03 (source code)PDA Forensic Tools:An Overview and AnalysisACPO Good Practice Guide for Computer based Electronic EvidenceHi-Tech Crime 2004 – the

Helping investigators gather crime evidence from PDAs

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology recently examined a number of software tools designed to acquire information from operating systems used in most PDAs: Palm OS, Microsoft Pocket PC and Linux. The researchers examined the tools in

Police get help to cope – horrific scenes make counseling necessary

Modern policing puts an emphasis on mental health, said J. Mark Hall, a psychologist with a private practice in Glastonbury. He works with troopers from the state police computer crimes unit. Those officers spend their days trying to lure pedophiles

Washington/Seattle University program trains cybercrime fighters

The UW, Highline Community College (HCC) and Seattle University are teaming up to offer a joint computer forensics program, aided by a $270,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. After completing the 12 to 18 month program, students will earn