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Digital Forensics Round-Up, November 30 2023

30th November 2023

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: File Timestamps for NTFS on macOS using Mountly This blog post will examine the NTFS file system being used on macOS with the Mounty driver, and the conditions that cause… Read more

Forensic Focus Digest, November 24 2023

24th November 2023

Read our digest of the latest content on the Forensic Focus website, including news, podcasts, articles, how-to videos and more.… Read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, November 23 2023

23rd November 2023

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Europol and Eurojust support Czech and Ukrainian police in taking down multi-million euro voice phishing gang The Czech and Ukrainian police have disrupted, with the support of Europol and Eurojust,… Read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, November 16 2023

16th November 2023

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Leveraging SRUM for Incident Response In this blog post, I’ll take you through an IR case that presented a unique set of hurdles and how the unexpected hero, the SRUM… Read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, November 09 2023

9th November 2023

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: How the UK crime agency repurposed Amazon cloud platform to analyse EncroChat cryptophone data UK crime agency repurposed AWS-based analytics platform to triage EncroChat data and identify threats to life… Read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, November 02 2023

2nd November 2023

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Digital Forensics vs. the Invisible Internet Project In the decade since the darknet underground site Silk Road was seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), the number of Dark… Read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, October 26 2023

26th October 2023

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: AI-created child sexual abuse images ‘threaten to overwhelm internet’ The “worst nightmares” about artificial intelligence-generated child sexual abuse images are coming true and threaten to overwhelm the internet, a safety… Read more

Decrypt WD My Passport Disks and Macs with T2 Chip With the New Passware Device Decryption Add-on

20th October 2023

Securing digital content through built-in hardware encryption in hard drives has become increasingly popular. This convenience, however, creates a unique challenge for forensic examiners. To address this, Passware introduces Device Decryption Add-on — a specialized solution designed for decrypting Western… Read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, October 19 2023

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A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: The State Of Digital Forensics And Incident Response 2023 The State of Digital Forensics and Incident Response 2023 survey from Binalyze and IDC is based on a survey conducted in… Read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, October 12 2023

12th October 2023

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Unraveling Digital Mysteries: How AI Copilots can Revolutionize Digital Forensic Investigations* In hindsight, 2021 was a significant inflection point in the world of artificial intelligence, characterized by remarkable developments in… Read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, October 05 2023

5th October 2023

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: The Multifaceted Role of Digital Forensics in Cybersecurity and Law Enforcement Every now and then I run into a discussion on the position of digital forensics in the realm of… Read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, September 28 2023

28th September 2023

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: The Emergence of Artificial Intelligence in Digital Forensics As the digital landscape continually evolves, so do the criminal activities within it. Today the cybercrime sector grandly expands its arm, necessitating… Read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, September 21 2023

21st September 2023

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Android Now Harder To Crack Than IPhones: Forensics Detectives A recent breakthrough in forensic technology has brought about a major shift in the constant battle between Android and iPhone security…… Read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, September 14 2023

14th September 2023

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Paedophiles using open source AI to create child sexual abuse content, says watchdog Freely available artificial intelligence software is being used by paedophiles to create child sexual abuse material (CSAM),… Read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, September 07 2023

7th September 2023

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Linux Web Server Forensics: Dr. Ali Hadi’s Web Server Case Most of the millions of web servers that make up the Internet run Linux as their operating system. This means… Read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 31 2023

31st August 2023

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Seven Use Cases Where AI can be a Hero to Digital Forensics AI is capable of doing so many things in the legal tech world, not least of which are… Read more