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Should digital forensics be standardized? Can it be standardized successfully? These questions have been hotly debated for a number of years, perhaps never more so than in recent years as digital forensics has become increasingly important in both crim… Continue reading Lessons Learned In Digital Forensics Standardization: United Kingdom
Privacy is a major theme in this quarter’s legal update, which covers the latest developments with the European Union’s ePrivacy Initiative, some new laws in the United States, recent court decisions, and law enforcement access to third-party data. We … Continue reading Forensic Focus Legal Update April 2021: Balancing Privacy And Investigation
In 2020, as workplaces and schools worldwide shut down to help control the spread of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, many professional conferences followed suit. Some promoted professional development via webinars; others kept a three- to five-day form… Continue reading What’s Happening at Techno Security Myrtle Beach: June 6th-9th, 2021
February’s research in digital forensics isn’t just about the papers presented at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS)’ annual meeting, or those published in the various journals. Last month also saw new research opportunities, either for a… Continue reading Research Roundup: New Digital Forensic Insights And Opportunities
The ability to collect digital evidence in the field — away from a forensic laboratory — has long been a need in corporate, private, and law enforcement investigations.
That’s only accelerated over the past decade, as more people’s mobil… Continue reading Industry Roundup: Mobile Field Triage Solutions
January was a somewhat light month in the way of digital forensics research publication, though the introduction of an Asia-Pacific (APAC) installment of the Digital Forensics Research Workshop (DFRWS) conference more than made up for it. This month we… Continue reading Digital Forensics Research Looks To The Future
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, are as fraught as they are fascinating. For every hobbyist flying a drone around the neighborhood on a sunny weekend, there is a neighbor concerned with whether a system’s onboard camera is spying on …… Continue reading A Comprehensive Walkthrough Of Counter UAV Analysis
Digital forensics research often depends on casework: specific problems with a device, operating system, app, or artifact that a forensic examiner needs to solve.
That isn’t always the case, though. Sometimes the problem has a broader scope, or the … Continue reading Cooperation Between Academia And Law Enforcement: Challenges And Opportunities
The end of 2020 could not come fast enough for most of us, and yet, as the year wound down, some things — such as the digital forensics research recapped in this article — were worth slowing down for. This … Read more The post A Spri… Continue reading A Springboard To Digital Forensics Research In 2021
Few digital forensics practitioners would dispute that their job is largely sedentary: there’s a lot of sitting, be it in labs, vehicles (including aircraft), meeting rooms, and conference lecture rooms, among others.
That only became more true in 2… Continue reading Are You Looking To Get #DFIRfit In 2021?