13th August 2025

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 13 2025
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Read the latest DFIR news – evidence of Kohberger’s detailed murder preparations, an alarming rise in child sextortion cases, Brian Carrier’s new mini-course on automation and AI in forensics, and more....

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Well-Being In Digital Forensics And Policing: Insights From Hannah Bailey

Well-Being In Digital Forensics And Policing: Insights From Hannah Bailey

12th August 2025

Hannah Bailey shares her journey from frontline policing to founding Blue Light Wellbeing, explaining why culturally-aware mental health support is crucial for DFIs and frontline workers....read more

Oxygen Tech Bytes In July 2025

Oxygen Tech Bytes In July 2025

12th August 2025

Level up your DFIR skills in under 20 minutes with Oxygen Tech Bytes’ expert-led, on-demand webinars....read more

Neal Ysart, Co-Founder, The Coalition Of Cyber Investigators

Neal Ysart, Co-Founder, The Coalition Of Cyber Investigators

11th August 2025

Neal Ysart shares how The Coalition of Cyber Investigators tackles OSINT integrity, complex investment fraud, and the rise of AI-driven scams....read more

What’s New in XRY 9.6 and XAMN 6.2

Greg Masterson: Good afternoon, everybody. We’re going to get started here in a minute. We’re going to be introducing Kevin Kyono, a Technical Sales Engineer with MSAB to discuss the release of 9.6 of XRY and 6.2 of XAMN, and

Android File System Extraction With Oxygen Forensic Detective

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Hey everyone, Keith Lockhart here from Oxygen Forensics Training. This video is a short look at the Android file system extractor. This option here in our Android extraction section of our forensic extractor for our devices. So, I’ve got the

What Science Gives Us and What We Give to Science

In this “Enhanced Reflections” article, Martino Jerian, Amped Software‘s CEO, will talk about the relationship between Amped and science, the scientific method, and scientific research. Amped Software has its roots in academic research, and the first prototype of Amped FIVE actually started

Teaching the Next Generation of Cyber Sleuths

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Hello, I’m Darryl Pfeif and I’m going to talk to you about our research project — ‘Introducing Digital Forensics in Secondary School’. This project was recorded with funding from the national science foundation and wouldn’t have been possible without the

Forensic Analysis of ReFS Journaling

Hello, I am Seonho Lee from the Affiliated Institute of ETRI. Today, I talk about the forensic analysis of ReFS Journaling. Before everything, let me just briefly explain the two key topics of the presentation. I’m going to explain what

Capturing the Low Hanging Fruit: Analysis Phase

Holly: Hi everyone. My name is Holly Hagene, welcome to today’s webcast. We’ll get started in just a minute. First, a few reminders: all the lines have been muted to reduce background noise. We also encourage you to submit questions

APK Downgrade in Oxygen Forensic Detective

Hey everybody. This is Josh Smith with the Oxygen Forensics training team. And today I’m going to show you a new extraction method:  the Android APK Downgrade method. The Android ADB backup is, like I said, a very common method,

Enhanced support for Samsung Galaxy and iOS with XRY 9.6.1 from MSAB

Today’s release of XRY 9.6.1 offers improved support for the extraction and decoding of iOS 15 and Samsung Galaxy mobile device including the SM-A202K, A205G and M107F. Today’s digital forensic examiners are faced with an increasing volume of digital forensic

Wickr Me Extraction in Oxygen Forensic Detective

Wickr Me Messenger allows users to exchange end-to-end encrypted and content-expiring messages, as well as end-to-end encrypted video conference calls. Wickr Me was founded in 2012 by a group of security experts who wanted to implement new standards of data