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A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views:  Inside the Met Police’s investigation into EncroChat crime gangs The Met’s senior investigating officer responsible for investigating criminals using the EncroChat encrypted phone network tells the inside story of the

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Police ‘investigate sexual abuse of young girl’s avatar in the metaverse’ – prompting NSPCC warning The NSPCC has said companies “must act now” as police reportedly investigate a case where

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Cars have become computers on wheels — and police have easy access to their data The crime was horrific: In 2019, an Ohio man was accused of shooting his wife,

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: The mental health of officials who regularly examine child sexual abuse material: strategies for harm mitigation The current study aims to better understand the mental health and subjective well-being of

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Meta Plans to Add Encryption to Messenger, Stoking a Privacy Debate The move is part of an effort to make the app more like WhatsApp and iMessage. Law enforcement authorities

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Dots do matter: Why dots in Gmail addresses impact Google Workspace investigations Dots don’t matter in Gmail addresses… if you’re sending or receiving emails to a Gmail address with a

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

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,

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

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

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