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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Head Calls for Hacking Law Updates A British cyber law that criminalizes hacking and other intrusion activities is outdated, often hindering law enforcement action against cyber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

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: 2023 SC Awards Finalists: Best Computer Forensic Solution Effective incident response necessitates the use of investigation and analysis techniques with devices for evidence gathering… Read More (SC Media) Why are

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Law enforcement crackdowns and new techniques are forcing cybercriminals to pivot Researchers say that law enforcement crackdowns and new investigative tools are putting pressure on cybercriminals, but challenges for defenders

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Ransomware payments nearly double in one year Ransomware payments have nearly doubled to $1.5m (£1.2m) over the past year, with the highest-earning organisations the most likely to pay attackers, according

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: High-tech toolkit to analyze digital evidence made more efficient and budget-friendly for law enforcement agencies Purdue University researchers simplify FileTSAR+ functionality and packaging to improve setup, use and maintenance… Read

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Hunted, UK Reality TV Show, Uses Oxygen Forensic® Detective To Hunt Contestants Hunted and Celebrity Hunted is a reality TV show where 14 individuals attempt to evade capture by a

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: March 2023 broke ransomware attack records with 459 incidents March 2023 was the most prolific month recorded by cybersecurity analysts in recent years, measuring 459 attacks, an increase of 91%

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Importing NSRL V3 hashsets into legacy tools NSRLConvert can change the new SQLite NSRL hashsets into a plain list of MD5 hashes. The program is available here and can be

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Having Fun doing Mobile Forensics When working on our Capstone Project, “Apple AirTag Forensics; The Phantom Menace,” we had to jailbreak the phone that we are using so that we

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Memory Forensics R&D Illustrated: Detecting Hidden Windows Services To begin the series, this post discusses a new detection technique for hidden services on Windows 7 through 11. Since not all

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: One of the darkweb’s largest cryptocurrency laundromats washed out German and US authorities, supported by Europol, have targeted ChipMixer, a cryptocurrency mixer well-known in the cybercriminal underworld… Read More (Europol)