20th August 2025

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 20 2025
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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

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

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

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

Digital Forensics Jobs Round-Up, August 18 2025

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

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

HTCIA Conference: September 28 – October 2

From the 28th of September to the 2nd of October 2020, the HTCIA conference will be running online. If there are any topics you’d particularly like us to cover, or any speakers you think we should interview, please let us

AccessData Announces Release of Latest Version of Forensic Software Solution

The Newest Version of AccessData’s Forensic Software Enables Investigations Whenever and Wherever You Are Company announces the integration of QView® and the addition of similar face and object detection AccessData Group, a leading provider of integrated digital forensics and e-discovery

Remote Working Capabilities For Mobile Computers And Cloud Collections

Colleen: Hello and welcome to today’s webinar, Remote Working Capabilities For Mobile Computers And Cloud Collections. My name is Colleen Nugent and I’m part of the marketing team here at Cellebrite. And I’ll be facilitating today’s webinar.  Before we get

Live Webinar: Controlled Collaboration Using Group Permissions

Nuix Investigate Power User webinar series Digital investigations are often massive in scale and evidence volume, requiring the collaborative work of multiple investigators and analysts. Nuix Investigate contains robust user management and role-based settings so that case contributors can access

Somebody Else’s Hero: Mental Health In Digital Forensics

Impostor syndrome is a common topic on LinkedIn and other professional online career communities, but it seems especially poignant among digital forensics analysts, who frequently work 9-5 Monday to Friday viewing things that no human eye should ever have to

DFIRforGood Is A Great Start: Let’s Use It To Ask Tougher Questions

In recent weeks the DFIR community has increasingly begun to speak out under the hashtag #DFIRforGood following conference presentations by leaders in digital forensics and information security. In a keynote delivered at the SANS DFIR Summit in July 2020, Matt

Support For Android Mediatek Devices In Oxygen Forensic® Detective

MediaTek Inc. is one of the largest smartphone chipmakers in the world. Recognizing this, Oxygen Forensic Detective offers data extraction for Android devices based on MTK chipsets. The extraction method is based on a low-level proprietary protocol designed for firmware

White Paper – How MD-RED Recovers And Decrypts WhatsApp Data

Check out our research on the major features of WhatsApp and how MD-RED recovers and decrypts WhatsApp data. If you want to get the full version of the white paper send us your inquiry! http://www.hancomgmd.com/blog/whatsappwhitepaper/