Digital Forensics Round-Up, January 11 2024

A round-up of this weekโ€™s digital forensics news and views:ย  Inside the Met Policeโ€™s investigation into EncroChat crime gangs The Metโ€™s senior investigating officer responsible for investigating criminals using the EncroChat encrypted phone network tells the inside story of the

Digital Forensics Round-Up, January 04 2024

A round-up of this weekโ€™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

Digital Forensics Round-Up, December 28 2023

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

Digital Forensics Round-Up, December 21 2023

A round-up of this weekโ€™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

Digital Forensics Round-Up, December 14 2023

A round-up of this weekโ€™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 weekโ€™s digital forensics news and views: Dots do matter: Why dots in Gmail addresses impact Google Workspace investigations Dots donโ€™t matter in Gmail addressesโ€ฆ if youโ€™re sending or receiving emails to a Gmail address with a

Digital Forensics Round-Up, November 30 2023

A round-up of this weekโ€™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 weekโ€™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 09 2023

A round-up of this weekโ€™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 weekโ€™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 weekโ€™s digital forensics news and views: AI-created child sexual abuse images โ€˜threaten to overwhelm internetโ€™ The โ€œworst nightmaresโ€ 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 weekโ€™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