7th August 2025

The Balance Between Digital Forensic Examiners And Digital Evidence Technicians: Expertise Vs. Efficiency
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Can digital forensic labs cut backlogs without cutting corners? Debbie Garner explores how tiered workflows using both examiners and technicians can strike the right balance....

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Forensic Focus Digest, August 08 2025

Forensic Focus Digest, August 08 2025

8th August 2025

Discover what’s new on Forensic Focus – explore the balance between expertise and efficiency in digital forensics, tackle the challenges of multi-jurisdictional investigations, and learn how transforming organisational culture can improve mental health in the field....read more

More Than Software: Amped Training Teaches You The Science Of Forensic Video And Image Analysis

More Than Software: Amped Training Teaches You The Science Of Forensic Video And Image Analysis

7th August 2025

Push past button-clicking—Amped Software training teaches the science behind forensic video analysis....read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 06 2025

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 06 2025

6th August 2025

Read the latest DFIR news – starting a digital forensic business, Hashcat v7.0.0, GenAI incident response guidance, cross-border investigation challenges, and more....read more

Toward Exact And Inexact Approximate Matching Of Executable Binaries

Lorenz Liebler discusses his research at DFRWS EU 2019. The application of approximate matching (a.k.a. fuzzy hashing or similarity hashing) is often considered in the field of malware or binary analysis. Recent research showed major weaknesses of predominant fuzzy hashing

Interview With Joe Sylve, Director Of Research And Development, BlackBag

Joe, your BlackBag profile describes how you "drive innovation and pursue emerging areas of research" as Director of Research & Development. Can you describe for us what your day-to-day looks like? Usually I’m managing shifting priorities, so there’s not always

Get Audio Redaction In The Latest Amped FIVE Update 16112

Amped Software announced the release of another update to Amped FIVE, our one-stop toolkit for all your video and image enhancement needs. Update 16112 includes some exciting new features. Our users will be happy to know that Amped FIVE now

10 Quick Facts About Oxygen Forensic Cloud Extractor

In October 2014, Oxygen Forensics changed the DFIR landscape by bringing the first Cloud extraction tool to the forensic industry. This innovative, and included utility, was available within the powerful Oxygen Forensic® Detective software and allowed acquisition of data from

Sarah Edwards On iOS Forensics And APOLLO

Christa: Hello and welcome to the Forensic Focus podcast. Monthly we interview experts from the digital forensics and incident response community on a host of topics ranging from technical aspects to career soft skills. I’m your host, Christa Miller. Today

NIST Test Results For Mobile Device Acquisition Tools – MSAB XRY

The results are out. The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology has published its report on the performance of XRY 8.1.0 in recovering and analyzing mobile device data using JTAG and chip off methods. This is part of NIST’s

Toward Exact And Inexact Approximate Matching Of Executable Binaries

Lorenz Liebler discusses his research at DFRWS EU 2019.The application of approximate matching (a.k.a. fuzzy hashing or similarity hashing) is often considered in the field of malware or binary analysis. Recent research showed major weaknesses of predominant fuzzy hashing techniques

Joe Sylve, Director Of Research And Development, BlackBag Technologies

Joe, your BlackBag profile describes how you "drive innovation and pursue emerging areas of research" as Director of Research & Development. Can you describe for us what your day-to-day looks like? Usually I’m managing shifting priorities, so there’s not always

Sarah Edwards On iOS Forensics And APOLLO

Christa: Hello and welcome to the Forensic Focus podcast. Monthly we interview experts from the digital forensics and incident response community on a host of topics ranging from technical aspects to career soft skills. I’m your host, Christa Miller. Today

Francis De Giorgio, Director Of Product Development, Susteen

Francis, tell us about your product development role. Where did you work previously, and what drew you to Susteen? I always enjoy a good David versus Goliath challenge and have had the privilege over the last 25 years to work

Everything You Ever Wanted To Ask About Checkm8 And Checkra1n

by Oxygen Forensics What’s Checkm8? Checkm8 is an exploit (program exploiting OS or hardware vulnerabilities) aimed at obtaining access to the execution of its own software code at the earliest stage of iOS device loading. What makes it stand out?

Everything You Ever Wanted To Ask About Checkm8 And Checkra1n

by Oxygen Forensics  What’s Checkm8? Checkm8 is an exploit (program exploiting OS or hardware vulnerabilities) aimed at obtaining access to the execution of its own software code at the earliest stage of iOS device loading. What makes it stand out?

BlackLight R3 From BlackBag

by Jade James BlackLight is a simple but smart investigation tool which allows examiners to quickly analyse computer systems and mobile devices. Searching is made easy with advanced filtering to sift through large data sets. The tool is aimed at