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Digital Forensics Round-Up, December 14 2023

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

Digital Forensics Round-Up, December 07 2023

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

Digital Forensics Round-Up, November 30 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

Digital Forensics Round-Up, November 23 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,

Digital Forensics Round-Up, November 16 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

Digital Forensics Round-Up, November 09 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

Digital Forensics Round-Up, November 02 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

Digital Forensics Round-Up, October 26 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

Digital Forensics Round-Up, October 19 2023

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

Digital Forensics Round-Up, October 12 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

Digital Forensics Round-Up, October 05 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

Digital Forensics Round-Up, September 28 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

Digital Forensics Round-Up, September 21 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…