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

Find Evidence Faster With A New JSON Viewer In Magnet AXIOM 4.3

Magnet AXIOM 4.3 and Magnet AXIOM Cyber 4.3 are now available! AXIOM 4.3 introduces an all-new JSON viewer along with new & updated artifacts — including Microsoft Teams, Instagram, Chrome, and Uber. Within AXIOM Cyber 4.3, you can now also

How To Use Annotations In Amped Replay

Some of you may be aware of Amped Replay, but for those who are not, Replay can be considered the VLC (and much more!) for investigators. It was designed to make the life of investigators easier by providing them with

How To Perform An Android 10 Full File Extraction With MD-NEXT

New release: MD-NEXT v.1.89.5  Full filesystem extraction is available for Samsung Galaxy S10/Note10 Series (Exynos) with Android 10 (FBE enabled), and this will support the Samsung Secure Folder. Check out the video! If you have any questions, feel free to

Recent Research In Digital Forensics

Despite pandemic-related disruptions in both research and publishing as we head into the summer, there are still some posts and papers being published. In this round-up, we take a look at three recent articles in digital forensics. An Evaluation of

Virtualizing The Digital Forensics Lab

When the spread of COVID-19 spurred businesses and governments to close their doors and require employees to work from home, questions arose for those working in the criminal justice system. Operations couldn’t end, but to what extent would they be

6 Month Checkup at Oxygen Forensics

We’re halfway through the year, and it is time to recap what useful features we have introduced to the forensic community. Undoubtedly a challenging time; however, we released four significant updates with a tremendous amount of enhancements in all our

Get DVRConv 17521 with H.264 Quality Settings and New Formats

Did you know that Amped DVRConv is the easiest way to convert unplayable video files? Videos from proprietary CCTV/DVR systems, dashcams, body worn cameras, and any other video source can now be converted without effort. With Amped DVRConv, you just

Put Your Lab’s Existing Tools And Processes To Work — For Science

Digital forensic tools rely on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)’s National Software Reference Library (NSRL), the standard reference dataset, to filter out known software and images from unknown ones. Forensic examiners, judges, and attorneys rely on NIST’s

Get Amped FIVE Update 17338 With Three New Filters And Much More

Amped Software is happy to announce a very exciting update to Amped FIVE, the most complete image processing software specifically designed for forensic lab experts to manage the complete image and video analysis workflow, with advanced and fully customizable processes

MSAB New Release: XRY 9.1, XAMN 5.1 And XEC Export 6.0.1

Significantly increase the amount of location data, extract more refined data from more devices more securely and in less time, view content from warrant returns and more. Today’s release of new versions of XRY, XAMN and XEC Export represents a

Passware: Tips for Efficient TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt Decryption

VeraCrypt and the former TrueCrypt are two of the most challenging types of encryption to bypass with regard to their popularity as full disk encryption software. Unlike Bitlocker encryption, TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt may encrypt their containers and volumes with multiple encryption keys

Mitigating Risk Through Standardization

A recap of Dr Gillian Tully’s DFRWS EU keynote. By Christa Miller, Forensic Focus No one denies that digital forensics is becoming more complex. The range of devices to examine keeps increasing, as does the complexity of acquiring and analyzing