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Peter, tell us a bit about yourself. What is your background and your current role? I read law at Oxford and had a first career in book publishing. At that time although we all knew what a computer was most

On Thursday the 16th of March 2017, Forensic Focus sponsored a golf day for Childline, who provide a free, confidential service to young people who need to talk. About Childline Childline’s goal is to help people up to the age

More power, ease of use and scalability Mobile phones contain more data and information than ever. This has greatly increased the demands placed on the tools used to solve crimes. XAMN Spotlight 2.0 is the next level of mobile forensics;

BlackBag Technologies is pleased to announce the release of the latest version of our mobile device triage tool, Mobilyze 2017 R1. New features added to this version of Mobilyze are designed to enhance the overall Mobilyze user experience and increase

From the 4th to the 7th of June 2017, Forensic Focus will be attending the Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA. If there are any topics you’d particularly like us to cover, or any

Oxygen Forensics, a worldwide developer and provider of advanced forensic data examination tools for mobile devices and cloud services, announced today that its flagship product, Oxygen Forensic Detective, is being used by professors teaching digital forensic classes within the BS

MOBILedit Forensic Express enters a new era by adding physical extraction and analysis, and it is now a native 64-bit application providing more power and stability for processing huge data. Version 4.0 brings in total 359 improvements making MOBILedit Forensic

Tuesday, March 28 at 1:00PM EST / 10:00AM PST / 5:00PM GMT Wednesday, March 29 at 9:00AM EST / 6:00AM PST / 1:00PM GMT Every day new mobile applications are launched and made available. Often these new apps contain chat

The new version of Passware Kit Forensic recovers passwords for iOS 10.2 iTunes backups, WPA/WPA2 WiFi connections. Instantly extracts passwords stored in iOS Keychain. Acquires images (including deleted ones) from iCloud Photo Library. Improves performance while running on multi-GPU systems

James Habben at 4n6ir explores the SCCM database in two posts, and Mark Mckinnon wrote an Autopsy Plugin to extract the relevant data. Didier Stevens shows how to extract password history from the ntds.dit file. Roberto Rodriguez shows how to

Belkasoft rolls out a major usability and performance update to Belkasoft Evidence Center 2017. The new release features brand new layout to simplify common tasks and speed up the routine, and comes with a 64-bit edition that significantly boosts performance

Welcome to this month’s round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Do you have any recommendations for image enhancement? Add your suggestions on the forum. Forum members discuss deleted files and allocated space in EnCase. Which job category

Devon, tell us a bit about yourself. What's your background, and what's your current role? My name is Devon Ackerman, and I am currently a Senior Director in Kroll’s Cyber Security and Investigations practice. In this role, I have leadership

by Martino Jerian, CEO and Founder, Amped Software In every branch of forensic science, we have to fight with the falsehoods introduced by the popular series à la CSI (hence the properly called CSI effect), but probably this belief is

Encrypted chat apps can be some of the hardest nuts to crack — especially when someone is trying to cover their tracks in advance — but they can also be vitally important to an investigation. Signal is a popular chat

In part one of our Portable Case series, our Director of Forensics, Jessica Hyde, took a look at the features and benefits of Portable Case. She highlighted the power of real-time collaboration with multiple stakeholders and having all the feedback