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

Forensic Tools For Investigating Child Sexual Abuse Material

Laura Sanchez discusses her research at DFRWS US 2019. Hello, I’m Laura Sanchez and I’m a graduate researcher at the University of New Haven. And I’ll be presenting the results of our survey that was conducted by my colleagues. Our

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

What’s Happening In Forensics – Mar 03, 2020

13Cubed share a memory forensics challenge. Petr Stuchlík discusses SMB endpoint fingerprinting. DFRWS share presentations from last year’s US conference. Ryan Benson shares some digital forensics writing tips.

Chromium-Based Microsoft Edge From A Forensic Point Of View

by Oleg Skulkin & Svetlana Ostrovskaya Recently Microsoft finally released the Chromium-based version of Edge Browser, so it seems we’ll miss ESE databases soon (not). Of course, it may have a similar set of forensic artifacts to Chromium or Chrome,

Chromium-Based Microsoft Edge From A Forensic Point Of View

by Oleg Skulkin & Svetlana Ostrovskaya Recently Microsoft finally released the Chromium-based version of Edge Browser, so it seems we’ll miss ESE databases soon (not). Of course, it may have a similar set of forensic artifacts to Chromium or Chrome,

Forensic Pattern Of Life Analysis

by Christa Miller, Forensic Focus Pattern of life analysis isn’t a new concept to anyone who’s ever been involved with intelligence, in particular surveillance. It’s all about the habits that people — suspects, persons of interest, crime victims, or those

Forensic Pattern Of Life Analysis

by Christa Miller, Forensic Focus Pattern of life analysis isn’t a new concept to anyone who’s ever been involved with intelligence, in particular surveillance.  It’s all about the habits that people — suspects, persons of interest, crime victims, or those

BlackBag Announces Release of MacQuisition 2020 R1

MacQuisition brings together the most comprehensive Apple imaging with new live and booted triaging of Apple devices, in industry-leading release.BlackBag Technologies, a Cellebrite company, announces the release of MacQuisition 2020 R1, adding triage capabilities to their industry-leading acquisition and forensic

FORMOBILE Survey: Law Enforcement Officers’ Requirements For Training

For a project that promises great leaps in the development of mobile forensic related technologies, and a complete guide to the practices and standards that professionals in Europe should follow, the necessary training to support these initiatives is critical! That

Australian Police: XAMN Helped Solve Armed Robbery

By: Jeremy Byers, a police investigator in Australia This post was originally written and published on the MSAB blog I have been employed as a member of the Australian Federal Police and the South Australian Police since 2008. Most of

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this month’s round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Can you tell whether files have been copied from one USB to another? What temperature should your forensic lab be? How do you process large amounts of

What’s Happening In Forensics – Feb 20, 2020

Nominations are open for the 2020 Forensic 4:Cast awards. FireEye discuss how to correlate user search LNK files. Group IB share a forensic view of Chromium-based Microsoft Edge. ElcomSoft release iOS Forensic Toolkit 5.30, including jailbreak-free extraction for multiple Apple