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

25 Days, 25 Questions: Part 1 – Process And Practice

Digital forensic analysts are self-made through years of dedication to their area of specialization. Passion and patience are the key ingredients that make them good professionals. After successfully completing the 100 days of digital forensics quiz I thought that there

Success Or Failure In A Murder Case Can Depend On Deleted Text Messages

If you have been obsessed with true crime TV series or have watched police procedural shows, there’s a good chance you’ve seen dramatic depictions of a mobile forensic investigation. Usually we see an investigator examining the phone then clicking some

Nuix Investigate Power User Webinar

Charles: Hello everyone. Thank you for joining us for the Nuix Investigate power user webinar. My name is Charles Klein. I am product manager for Nuix Investigate, and I am joined today with my colleague Gareth Bernard, who is one

How To Expose Evidence Of Timestomping In Magnet AXIOM 4.4

Hey everyone, Tarah Melton here, and today I’m going to show you a new artifact that you can enable in AXIOM 4.4 when processing a Windows evidence item, called NTFS Timestamp Mismatch. This artifact is looking for a couple of

Samsung Exynos Support In Oxygen Forensic Detective

Oxygen Forensic® Detective 13.0 has introduced the ability to bypass screen locks, perform physical acquisitions, and decrypt data from Samsung devices based on Exynos chipsets. The main obstacle to the data extraction from Samsung devices is that the user data

How To Use And Export Cloud Tokens With XRY

In this video, I’m going to show you how to download cloud tokens with XRY. This does require the XRY Cloud license to download them. You don’t get them without that license – as you can see here, I did

DFRWS Virtual USA 2020: Recap

In July, digital forensics professionals from the public, private, and academic sectors came together to hear about some of the latest research in the industry. In his opening remarks, DFRWS USA Conference Chair Josiah Dykstra, a Technical Fellow with the

How To Use The Magnet Web Page Saver

Hey everyone, Tarah Melton here, and today we’re going to walk through a workflow that you can use alongside a new artifact in AXIOM 4.4 that will help you present data output from Magnet’s free too, the Magnet Web Page

How To Find Location Data From Pictures In XAMN

Welcome to this XAMN feature demonstration video. In this video I will show the use of XAMN filters to find images containing location information, this being longitude, latitude or even both. I will also demonstrate how to create a pivot

Podcast: Lodrina Cherne On Diversity In Digital Forensics

Christa: When we talk about diversity in DFIR, are we referring to hiring people who look different from us, or do we also mean people who think differently? Welcome to the Forensic Focus podcast, where monthly we interview experts from