#digital-forensics — Public Fediverse posts

Discover what’s new on Forensic Focus – explore UK police well-being funding, BitLocker decryption, protecting investigators working on child safeguarding cases, and more. https://www.forensicfocus.com/news/forensic-focus-digest-august-21-2026/ #DigitalForensics #DFIR

What does repeated exposure to traumatic digital evidence really do to investigators? Phil Anderson returns to the Forensic Focus Podcast to unpack more findings from the international well-being study. https://www.forensicfocus.com/podcast/impact-coping-and-support-further-reflections-from-the-dfir-well-being-study/ #DigitalForensics #DFIRWellbeing

Cellebrite Genesis is expanding globally and is now generally available to enterprises, helping teams surface critical connections in minutes rather than weeks. https://www.forensicfocus.com/news/cellebrite-genesis-for-enterprise-now-generally-available-regional-availability-expands-to-more-global-markets/ #Cellebrite #CellebriteGenesis #DigitalForensics #DFIR

When every file is treated as equally urgent, critical intelligence can get lost in the backlog. See how S21 VisionX helps investigators prioritise what matters most. https://www.forensicfocus.com/news/unmasked-throughput-is-not-prioritisation/ #Semantics21 #DigitalForensics

Read the latest DFIR news - UK police investigator well-being, cloud search warrant strategy, Timestamped for macOS, iLEAPP and ALEAPP updates, and more. https://www.forensicfocus.com/news/digital-forensics-round-up-august-19-2026/ #DigitalForensics #DFIR

Join Rich Frawley of ADF Solutions as he shares practical strategies for managing complex ICAC scenes, prioritizing the devices most likely to contain probative evidence, and making faster, more informed decisions in the field. https://www.forensicfocus.com/news/upcoming-webinar-reducing-icac-backlogs-prioritizing-digital-evidence-for-faster-investigations/ #ADFSolutions #ICAC #DigitalForensics #DFIR

iLEAPP and ALEAPP are both at v2026.3.1.

Landed on both sides in the same release: Snapchat, Tinder, TikTok, Reddit, Proton Mail, WhatsApp, GroupMe, Chrome saved payments.

📱 iLEAPP also: OneDrive, Google Drive DriveKit, Onion Browser, Proton Mail conversation view with inline media

🤖 ALEAPP also: Instagram, Netflix, Amazon Shopping, Snapchat chat media, Wire recovery across encrypted app generations, LINE calls even with empty contact tables

Absence is not a negative finding. The tools should say so.

https://leapps.org/releases

#DFIR #DigitalForensics #OpenSource

Paul Gullon-Scott examines whether £2.4m for police well-being is enough to turn good national initiatives into meaningful support on the ground. https://www.forensicfocus.com/articles/2-4-million-for-uk-police-well-being-what-will-it-actually-buy/ #DigitalForensics #DFIR

From mobile extractions and emails to cloud data and video, see how Cellebrite Genesis brings diverse evidence sources together to help enterprise investigators reach faster, source-traceable and defensible findings. https://www.forensicfocus.com/news/investigations-dont-arrive-in-one-tidy-format/ #Cellebrite #DigitalForensics

bulk_extractor 2.2.0 is released.
Highlights: CVE-2026-24857 fix; standalone 64-bit Windows executable; Windows raw-device input; runtime scanner plug-ins; improved Wi-Fi PCAP preservation; and broad reliability and parser hardening.
Source, Windows, and tested Snap assets are available here:
https://github.com/simsong/bulk_extractor/releases/tag/v2.2.0
#DFIR #DigitalForensics #OpenSource #Cybersecurity

How far into the future is 'truth' when AI can generate hyper-realistic forgeries?

Read the full article here: https://techethics.co.uk/insights/from-hollywood-to-harm-the-democratisation-of-deepfake-technology-and-its-social-cost

#DeepfakeTechnology #AIEthics #DigitalForensics #techethics

New CPD-accredited training from our Well-Being Lead, Paul Gullon-Scott, is now available to help digital forensic investigators and their organisations better understand and manage the psychological demands of the role — book your place today. https://www.forensicfocus.com/news/new-dfir-mental-health-training-webinar-cpd-accredited/ #DigitalForensics #DFIR

The 14th annual Volatility Plugin Contest is now open! Entries are invited for new open source memory forensics plugins, with cash prizes on offer. The submission deadline is 31 December 2026. https://volatilityfoundation.org/the-14th-annual-volatility-plugin-contest-is-open/ #DigitalForensics

File Recovery in Process

https://gwolf.org/2026/08/file-recovery-in-process.html

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49291411

#HackerNews #FileRecovery #DataRecovery #TechNews #CyberSecurity #DigitalForensics

Sherlock is a powerful #OSINT tool that offers a fast and efficient way to search for #socialmedia profiles across multiple platforms.
It’s definitely one to add to your research toolbox!
#cybersecurity #infosec #digitalforensics

See how BelkaGPT turns image forensics from “scroll and squint” into “describe and detect” with offline AI image descriptions and instant custom classifiers - no training datasets required. https://www.forensicfocus.com/videos/ai-image-classification-for-forensics-build-custom-detectors-in-seconds-belkagpt/ #Belkasoft #DigitalForensics

Release day. All five LEAPPs are at v2026.3.0 and LAVA is at v0.15.0.

📱 iLEAPP: Apple Unified Logs bundled into every build, PowerLog with time-offset correction, Telegram, Wickr, Session 🤖 ALEAPP: Signal for Android with full SQLCipher decryption, attachments and all 🖥️ DLEAPP: Roblox, Telegram Desktop (tdata), Windows Photos and Clock 📨 RLEAPP: Fritz!Box Supportdata 🌋 LAVA: conversation analytics view

And the housekeeping that matters: databases open read-only so we never write to evidence, no network calls at parse time, report injection fixes, and unsourced claims removed from the docs with CI guarding them out.

https://leapps.org/releases

#DFIR #DigitalForensics #OpenSource

⏰ Don't Miss Your Chance to Speak at FIRST LAC 2026

Have a story, lesson learned, tool, or innovation to share with the incident response community?
Submit your proposal for the 2026 FIRST Regional Symposium Latin America & Caribbean and showcase your experience in areas such as:

🔹 Incident handling case studies
🔹 Threat intelligence
🔹 Cloud security
🔹 AI for incident response
🔹 Digital forensics
🔹 DNS, IPv6, and routing security

📅 Deadline: August 16, 2026

📧 https://www.first.org/events/symposium/latam2026/

No marketing presentations—technical and community-focused content only.

#CallForSpeakers #FIRST #CyberSecurity #ThreatIntelligence #DigitalForensics #LACNIC46

Join Rich Frawley of ADF Solutions as he shares practical strategies for managing complex ICAC scenes, prioritizing the devices most likely to contain probative evidence, and making faster, more informed decisions in the field. https://www.forensicfocus.com/news/upcoming-webinar-reducing-icac-backlogs-prioritizing-digital-evidence-for-faster-investigations/ #ADFSolutions #ICAC #DigitalForensics #DFIR

Turn partial school badges into actionable leads with S21 School Badge Lookup v2.0, fast offline image intelligence built for CSAM and ICAC investigations worldwide. https://www.forensicfocus.com/news/unmasked-early-intelligence-should-not-be-manual/ #DigitalForensics #DFIR #Semantics21 #CSAM #ICAC

Read the latest DFIR news - NIST’s new ArtCat digital forensics catalog, Kohberger case methodology, Android intrusion log analysis, offline AI with BelkaGPT, and more. https://www.forensicfocus.com/news/digital-forensics-round-up-august-12-2026/ #DigitalForensics #DFIR

Learn how to identify and decrypt BitLocker Clear Key–protected forensic images using dislocker and bdeinfo, from spotting the “-FVE-FS-” signature to mounting the recovered NTFS volume for analysis. https://www.forensicfocus.com/articles/how-to-process-a-clear-key-bitlocker-image-file-to-generate-a-decrypted-raw-image/ #DigitalForensics #DFIR

Explore a selection of the latest DFIR employment opportunities in this week’s Forensic Focus jobs round-up. https://www.forensicfocus.com/jobs/digital-forensics-jobs-round-up-august-10-2026/ #DigitalForensics #DFIR

Can trauma show up as misconduct? Paul Gullon-Scott explores how cumulative trauma and organisational stress can shape behaviour in policing and digital forensics and why earlier, trauma-informed support could make all the difference. https://www.forensicfocus.com/articles/misconduct-or-mental-injury-a-question-policing-can-no-longer-avoid/ #DigitalForensics #DFIR

New post: Using AI Effectively in Digital Forensics

A decent version of most DFIR software can now be made at home, in a few hours, by a user that does not code. The moat is gone. That is not the scary part.

The scary part is AI tooling sold to folks with no way to verify the output. So what makes someone an expert now? Five qualities, and none is owning a subscription.

https://leapps.org/blog-post?post=2026-08-07-using-ai-effectively-in-digital-forensics
#DFIR #DigitalForensics #AI

Discover what’s new on Forensic Focus – trace eight years of innovation with Atola TaskForce, explore how BelkaGPT brings offline AI to digital investigations, learn why the first 60 minutes with digital evidence matter, and more. https://www.forensicfocus.com/news/forensic-focus-digest-august-07-2026/ #DigitalForensics #DFIR