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20th August 2025

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 20 2025

Read the latest digital forensics news – SANS releases DFIR Summit playlist, UAC launches v3.2.0, Neal Ysart discusses the Coalition of Cyber Investigators, and more....

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Wrapping Up The S21 Transcriber Spotlight Session – What We’ve Covered

20th August 2025

Explore S21 Transcriber: a fully offline, court-ready tool with free 30-day access and training....read more

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UPCOMING WEBINAR – Retail Under Siege: Fighting Back Against Ransomware With Next-Gen Forensics

19th August 2025

Retailers face rising cyber threats—join Exterro's Sept 4 webinar to learn fast, modern forensic response strategies and protect your brand....read more

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Digital Forensics Jobs Round-Up, August 18 2025

18th August 2025

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

Coffee Forensics: Reconstructing Data in IoT Devices Running Contiki OS

21st January 2022

Hi, my name is Jens-Petter Sandvik and I’m a PhD student at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU for short). In addition to trying to finish a PhD, I’m working for the Norwegian police in the national cyber crime

How Detego Helped Airport-Based Counterterrorism Units Speed Up Investigations With Rapid Data Extraction and Triage Tools

7th October 202220th January 2022

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The Background Detego’s client* is one of the busiest airports in London and handles close to 30 million passengers each year. Used by a large number of the region’s budget airlines, the airport facilitates travel to over 200 destinations in

NICE and Magnet Forensics Partner to Digitally Transform Police Case Building and Investigations

20th January 2022

Integration of companies’ technologies will enable police agencies to automatically merge digital forensic evidence from Magnet REVIEW with other digital evidence in NICE Investigate to streamline case building NICE and Magnet Forensics today announced a partnership to digitally transform police

John Graham, Director of Sales and Business Development, Atola Technology

19th January 2022

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John, you will soon be celebrating your 10-year anniversary of working for Atola Technology. Tell us how the company has changed since you joined. Atola has grown incredibly since I started, from just a few people to now teams in

Time Well Spent: Precision Timing, Monotonic Clocks, and the PowerLogs Database for iOS

18th January 2022

Hello, and welcome to our talk on Time Well-Spent: Precision Timing, Monotonic Clocks, and the PowerLogs Database for iOS. As you might’ve guessed, we both work for Magnet Forensics, and this is the story of our research journey through PowerLogs

Passware Kit 2022 v1: Full Support for Windows 11, macOS Monterey, and Acronis Backup Passwords

18th January 2022

Passware Kit 2022 v1 fully supports the latest OS releases: Windows 11 and macOS Monterey, including BitLocker and APFS decryption, extraction of SAM passwords, and password recovery for Keychain files. We are continually expanding the range of file types and

How Human Factors Confound and Enrich Digital Forensics: The November-December Research Roundup

17th January 2022

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Human complexity lies at the heart of so much of digital forensics – both the artifacts that offer insights into people’s motives, means, and opportunity to commit wrongdoing, and the investigations that reveal them. Our research roundup for the end

Amped Software Interviews Dr. Cecilia Pasquini (University of Trento) About Deepfakes

18th January 202217th January 2022

Deepfakes and computer-generated images have been around for a few years now, and they’ve become quite popular. Amped Software has recently authored an article in the Evidence Technology Magazine about the challenging task of dealing with deepfakes. Much like it happens for cryptography-vs-cryptanalysis,

Major Features of MD-Series Released in 2021 4Q

17th January 2022

Check the major features of MD-Series released in 2021 4Q. Visit our blog to check the full paragraph with product images. MD-NEXT v1.90.12 ~ v1.90.17 Bootloader supports extraction of feature phone which based Spreadtrum Chipset.Android Full Filesystem extraction supports 21 models (Exynos)

Launching the Binalyze Forensic Investigation Suite

13th January 2022

Steve: Good afternoon, good morning, good evening, depending on where you are in the world. Thank you for joining us again on this webinar. It’s to review our release version 2.1 and also to launch a new solution that we

Passware Kit Mobile – Now with iOS 15.2 Support

12th January 2022

Passware forensic products are used by the world’s top law enforcement agencies to crack cases where decryption is required. Now, the range of decryption solutions is topped up by Passware Kit Mobile – a forensic tool that extracts and decrypts

Be That Trusted Advisor

12th January 2022

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By Robert B. Fried, Senior Vice President, Sandline Global, Forensics & Investigations As forensic practitioners, we must do our best to stay ahead of ever-changing technology but sometimes we are thrown curve balls. For example, taking a trip down memory

The Potential of Digital Traces in Providing Evidence at Activity Level

11th January 2022

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Hello. My name is Hans Henseler from the University of Applied Sciences Leiden. I’m going to present about ‘The Potential of Digital Traces in Providing Evidence at Activity Level’. This presentation is based by work together with professional report. So

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11th January 2022

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Magnet Forensics’ Stephen Boyce on Collaboration, Automation, and Developing DFIR Skills

10th January 2022

Christa Miller: As digital technology becomes more embedded into humans’ everyday lives, enhancing our efficiency at work, our social lives, even our health and movements, it likewise facilitates criminal activity. Growing in volume and complexity, technology thus ends up both

Who’s Using Amped Software Products?

10th January 2022

In this “Enhanced Reflections” article, Martino Jerian, Amped Software‘s CEO, will share some aggregated data related to the company, its products and services, and other information you may find interesting. It is being published in December 2021, so if you are