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4th August 2025

Digital Forensics Jobs Round-Up, August 04 2025

Explore a selection of the latest DFIR employment opportunities in this week’s Forensic Focus jobs round-up....

Webinars

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

News

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

News

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

Frontline Managed Services’ Kyle Campbell on DFIR & E-Discovery Skills & Pathways

18th July 2022

Christa: Electronic discovery, or e-discovery, has always required some digital forensic skills as litigators prepare to present electronic data at trial. However, as technology evolves, likewise, the skills needed to identify, collect and analyze the data that’s most relevant to

MSAB – a Major Player in IDC report on Digital Forensics

15th July 2022

MSAB, a global leader in digital forensic technology for mobile device examination and analysis, announced it has been named as a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Digital Forensics in Public Safety 2022 Vendor Assessment. The report noted that

PEM: Remote Forensic Acquisition of PLC Memory in Industrial Control Systems

14th July 202214th July 2022

Winner of the Best Paper Award at DFRWS-EU 2022, Nauman Zubair proposes a new memory acquisition framework to remotely acquire a programmable logic controller (PLC)’s volatile memory while the PLC is controlling a physical process. Session Chair: Welcome Nauman, happy

When Did It Happen? Dealing With Timestamps in Amped FIVE

13th July 2022

By David Spreadborough – Forensic Video Analyst at Amped Software There are several common components within a CCTV Video file. This article from Amped Software is going to dive into the data that links the image to the time when

Passware Kit Mobile 2022 v3 – GPU-Accelerated Password Recovery for MediaTek-Based LG Smartphones

13th July 2022

What’s new in Passware Kit Mobile 2022 v3: GPU-accelerated password recovery for MediaTek-based LG devices Data extraction from applications on LG: Signal, Wickr, 1Password iOS 15.5 support Support for Apple devices with A9X chip Support for HFS+ (iOS prior to

Defining Atomicity (and Integrity) for Snapshots of Storage in Forensic Computing

12th July 2022

In this video from DFRWS-EU 2022, Jenny Ottmann revisits the discussion on quality criteria for “forensically sound” acquisition of such storage and proposes a new way to capture the intent to acquire an instantaneous snapshot from a single target system;

Introducing 2 Forensic Focus Podcast Co-Hosts: Simon Biles and Alex Desmond

11th July 202211th July 2022

Christa: Welcome to the Forensic Focus podcast. I’m your host, Christa Miller. And this week we’re switching it up a little bit. We’re introducing some new co-hosts: Simon Biles and Alex Desmond. Simon’s an IT and digital forensics expert witness

Extraction and Analysis of Retrievable Memory Artifacts From Windows Telegram Desktop Application

8th July 2022

In this video from DFRWS-EU 2022, Pedro Fernandez-Alvarez describes research focused on the Telegram Desktop client, in particular the client process contents in a Windows system’s RAM. Session Chair: We are now in the topic of memory forensics, and we

The Best Forensic Tool to Extract and Analyze Data of Drone/UAVs

8th July 2022

We are happy to release a demo video of MD-DRONE! Drone and UAVs are commonly used for public service purposes or terror and crimes are often involved with this remotely controlled mobility tool. The need for the investigation of drones

Why a UK Police Force Adopted Frontline Solutions From MSAB

7th July 2022

A woman wearing a dark shirt works on a computer at a desk, processing mobile devices

Operator: Calling all units. A2 11, 675 Main. Backup needed. Speaker 1: So we had two police forces combining their digital forensics to save money and increase efficiency. However, we soon realized we had a situation that we weren’t prepared

Bridging the Gap: Standardizing Representation of Inferences in Diverse Digital Forensic Contexts

6th July 2022

Session Chair: So the next speaker is Timothy. It’s going to be online, so Timothy, are you ready? Timothy: Hi, everyone. So I’m Timothy Bollé, I’m a PhD student at the University of Lausanne. And today I will give a

Digital Intelligence Joins Forces with Detego for a Global Webinar Series

6th July 2022

Detego Global, creators of the award-winning Unified Investigations Platform that enables investigators to rapidly extract, analyze and report on critical data from 1,000s of devices and Digital Intelligence® Inc, a leader in the delivery of digital forensics and eDiscovery technologies,

MSAB Announces Its Second Major Release for 2022: XRY 10.2, XAMN 7.2 and XEC 7.2

6th July 2022

The new releases of XRY, XAMN and XEC come with full support for more devices, more apps, Coinbase Warrant Returns, plus an early access to new features. Release Highlights XRY 10.2 XRY 10.2 brings significant extraction and decoding capabilities to

Cellebrite’s Monica Harris on Achieving Balance in Corporate Investigations and E-Discovery

5th July 2022

Christa: Digital forensics in enterprises increasingly overlaps corporate investigations, e-discovery and incident response, with the result that enterprises themselves must balance data acquisition and retention with employee privacy and cyber security. This week on the Forensic Focus podcast we’re joined

What Can You Tell Us About Your Password? A Contextual Approach

30th June 2022

Aikaterini: I’m Aikaterini Kanta. I’m a PhD candidate with University College Dublin, and I’m really glad to be here today. I’m going to talk to you about my PhD research. So, about contextual based decryption. So, the average number of

Uncovering Windows Registry Data and the Latest Mac Artifacts

29th June 2022

Julie O’Shea: Hi, everyone. Thanks for joining today’s webinar: Uncovering Windows Registry Data and the Latest Mac Artifacts. I’m Julie O’Shea and I’m the Product Marketing Manager here at Cellebrite Enterprise Solutions. Before we get started, there are a few