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Forensic Focus Digest, 16 Oct 2026

Forensic Focus Digest, 16 Oct 2026

16th October 2026

Discover what’s new on Forensic Focus: explore how the City of Johannesburg uses Detego Global to accelerate investigations, see how MD-LIVE takes investigators from first connection to a court-ready report, learn how iVe analyzes vehicle data to reveal driver behavior, and more....read more

Magnet Autokey: Accelerating Your Vehicle Investigations

Magnet Autokey: Accelerating Your Vehicle Investigations

15th October 2026

Jason Miranda and Evan Walker from Magnet Forensics show how Magnet Autokey pulls location history, connected devices and even text messages from encrypted vehicle infotainment systems in under 30 minutes....read more

Semantics 21 Is Calling Time On Outdated Investigation Tools

Semantics 21 Is Calling Time On Outdated Investigation Tools

14th October 2026

Digital evidence has evolved, and investigative tools must keep pace - discover how Semantics 21 helps investigators work faster, search smarter and maintain control without compromising professional judgement....read more

Release The DRONE! : Meet Your 24/7 Available DFIR Expert

The first innovation of Binalyze was decreasing the evidence collection time to minutes from hours, if not days. The second one was making the overall acquisition process a fully automated workflow.  Both of these innovations are delivered by our TACTICAL

Automating And Sharing Digital Forensics Knowledge Through Hansken

What if you could automate digital forensics processes, centralize them, and then offer them at scale through the internet? Researchers at the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) set out to answer the first question—then took the path through the second and

Exterro Participates In Gen CybHER Camp At Dakota State University

It was exciting to be in person at the annual GenCybHER Girls in Cybersecurity Camp at Dakota State University, June 20-24, 2021. This year, 66 girls in grades 6 through 9 attended from 5 states (SD, ND, MN, IA, NE). Our hands-on lab,

FTK Feature Focus: Optimizing Processing Options Part 2

Justin Tolman: Episode five, and we’re already doing a sequel. We’re taking another look at optimizing our processing in FTK Feature Focus. Welcome back. This is episode five of Feature Focus. I’m Justin Tolman. I’m the Director of Training over

Grayshift Virtual Briefing Room – July 8th

Join our upcoming Grayshift Briefing Room Mobile devices are a major source of evidence but obtaining that evidence can be challenging. There are instances where the suspect, victim, or witness is reluctant to release their device, which can result in

Register For Webinar: Going on a Bear Hunt AKA A Safari Through Safari

With Apple’s Safari application typically taking the #2 browser spot worldwide across both computer and mobile platforms, examiners need to understand the how’s and the whys of Safari’s operation on both macOS and iOS. Is the information missing from the

FTK Feature Focus: Optimizing FTK Processing Options Part 1

Justin Tolman: If you or someone you love selects all the options in processing with FTK, so they won’t miss anything, then this episode’s for you! Episode four of FTK Feature Focus, we’ll come back to FTK Feature Focus episode

How To Detect Tampered Images On Social Media Via Shadows Analysis

Image and video authenticity verification is one of the most prominent challenges nowadays in digital forensics. The rapid proliferation of all sorts of image manipulation software, together with the increasing popularity of deepfakes, make it so that seeing is no