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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),

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

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

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Digital Forensic Survival Podcast # 391 – Investigation Lifecycle The NIST investigation lifecycle encompasses a series of well-defined steps, starting from problem identification and scoping, through data collection and analysis,

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: UK MPs warn against growing use of smart tech in domestic abuse MPs have called on the UK government to tackle “tech abuse”, as they warned devices including smart home

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Unlocking digital potential Digital forensics units (DFUs) play a crucial role in nearly every criminal investigation today by extracting data from various electronic devices and transforming it into evidence of

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: DOJ merges cyber, cryptocurrency units to go after ransomware attacks The U.S. Department of Justice is merging its cryptocurrency and computer crimes investigation units, reflecting the vital role digital assets

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Who are the ransomware gangs wreaking havoc on the world’s biggest companies? It’s the defining cyber crime of the 2020s, and hackers are only just beginning to exploit its potential

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: The importance of closing the knowledge gap between software and law enforcement Having recently retired from 35 years of government/law enforcement experience, I have spent a considerable amount of my

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: FBI digital sting against Hive cybercrime group shows the promise — and limits — of hacking hackers When the FBI took down a notorious cybercrime gang known as Hive earlier

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: ‘The audio gets to you’: What it takes for Singapore police to investigate child sexual abuse material For a few hours every day, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Jane Chen

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: UK National Crime Agency Head Calls for Hacking Law Updates A British cyber law that criminalizes hacking and other intrusion activities is outdated, often hindering law enforcement action against cyber

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Digital Forensics Training Strengthens Ukrainian Investigative Capabilities Last week, EU Advisory Mission (EUAM) Ukraine and the Austrian National Criminal Intelligence Service organized an intensive training in Vienna on digital forensics…

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Data Does Not Slow Down For Justice The case for smarter data processing for Digital Forensic Units (DFU’s) around the country is a powerful one. DFUs extract data from all