14th August 2025

Enterprise Turns To AI For Speed And Accuracy In DFIR
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Magnet Forensics explores how AI is revolutionizing speed and accuracy in DFIR....

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Breaking Digital Barriers: Galaxy S25 & Z Flip Fully Supported

Breaking Digital Barriers: Galaxy S25 & Z Flip Fully Supported

14th August 2025

Gain full filesystem access to the latest Samsung Galaxy devices with MD-NEXT....read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 13 2025

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 13 2025

13th August 2025

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....read more

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

Digital Forensics Standard-Setting: Summer 2020 Round-Up

The summer has been a busy one for standards-setting organizations in the United States and European Union: In the U.S., the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published its final guidelines for cloud forensics, along with a document towards

Qualifying A Digital Forensic Expert In Court (Voir Dire)

Most digital forensic practitioners possess an analytical mind.  One of the reasons we become interested in the field is because we work to whittle down the digital elements of the case to try and present a clearer picture of the

XRY 9.1.2 – Checkm8 Extraction And BFU Acquisition For iOS

Today’s release of XRY 9.1.2 offers improved iOS support for data acquisition from iOS devices. The XRY integrated jailbreak tool, based on the checkm8 exploit, will now enable users to recover partial data even when in BFU mode. The new

Case Study: Digital Evidence Confirms Players In Major Bitcoin Heist

Traditional policework helped track down the thieves targeting cryptocurrency data centers in Iceland, but digital intelligence from one suspect’s mobile devices provided the proof of their involvement. Date: 2018Challenge: To connect six suspects to the theft of more than $2M

Digital Forensic Evidence And Artifacts: Recent News And Research

This month’s academic research reflects two aspects of the changing digital forensics industry: new ways to think not just about digital artifacts, but also about broader investigative processes — including interagency cooperation. This round-up article includes three open-access articles from

How To Bulk Tag Evidence With Nuix Investigate

Today I’m going to show you how to do a bulk tagging operation using Nuix Investigate 8.2.1. Here on the far left side – you can see we’re on our Cases landing page – we’re going to scroll down the

COVID Fraud Is A Crisis Within A Crisis

In times of distress, or hardship, we’re told to “look for the helpers.” As Fred Rogers once explained, in “scary” times we can feel calmed and reassured because there will always be “people who are helping.” These people are the

BYOB To A CTF To Improve Your DFIR Game

Even before COVID-19 drove homebound digital forensics examiners to seek out new modes of training and skill-building, Capture the Flag (CTF) challenges were a popular feature at numerous conferences. Now offered in virtual formats both during and outside of conferences,

Strengthen Your Cases with Webpage Data in Magnet AXIOM 4.4

Magnet AXIOM 4.4 and Magnet AXIOM Cyber 4.4 are now available with built-in artifact support for results captured with the free MAGNET Web Page Saver tool, the ability to choose the evidence summaries included in your exports, and several new

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this month’s round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Forum members discuss smart TV acquisition. How do you determine the age of a person in images seized from a computer? Can you help this user with

How To Review Text Chats With Nuix Investigate

Today we’re going to take a look at how to review chat messages in Nuix Investigate, and the different viewing options. We currently have all the items retrieved through the grid, and we’re going to utilise the search filters on

SANS DFIR Summit 2020 Recap

The SANS DFIR Summit, the largest ever SANS Institute event thanks to a record 20,000 registered individuals, took place July 16-17 this year. In a fully virtual format owing to COVID-19 precautions, the Summit, said SANS Institute Fellow Rob Lee

Live Webinar: Insider Threat Detection, Triage, and Investigation

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Many enterprises struggle with identifying, planning, and implementing the core capabilities needed to prevent insider threats within the organization. Executive-level questions and concerns about whether the investments required for enterprise-scale tools are justified by insider threat risk alone make it

Staying Ahead of Mac Investigations with Apple Forensic Training

BlackBag’s Apple® Forensic Investigations (AF1) class focuses on evidence artifacts rather than parsed data. The idea is that attendees learn how to verify data found during analysis. The course prepares examiners to understand what the data is saying; how the