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

Digital Forensic Challenges In Major Case Law And Global Legislation

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. With

Learn Real-World Scenarios With Basic Forensic Investigations Training

Staying up to date with the most current topics and real-world scenarios in forensics is daunting and overwhelming. That’s why BlackBag’s Basic Forensic Investigations course is a must for investigators, regardless of prior use of BlackBag’s tools.BlackBag’s team of expert

What’s Happening In Forensics – Feb 4, 2020

ElcomSoft’s Vladimir Katalov discusses Apple vs. law enforcement. Gerald Beuchelt talks about deanonymising Tor circuits. DFRWS announce a Women In Forensic Computing workshop day ahead of the main EU conference in March.

What’s Happening In Forensics – Feb 3, 2020

Jessica Hyde shares a brief guide to getting started in digital forensics. Haniah Shafi discusses Android Auto and Apple CarPlay forensics. Matthew Seyer releases a tool to help investigators reformat and filter JSONL.

Shining A Light On Spotlight

Mark Scanlon discusses his student's research at DFRWS EU 2019. OK, good morning, how are you doing? My name is Mark Scanlon, I’ve been speaking to some of you guys already. I’m from University College Dublin. This work was primarily

Take It Or Leave It: Triaging Digital Evidence

Have you ever served a search warrant and stared at the mountainous amount of digital media collected and wondered how much is actually related to your investigation? Or, have you had to undertake terabytes of storage media and wondered if

What’s Happening In Forensics – Jan 29, 2020

Errata Security discuss how to decrypt WhatsApp end-to-end media files. The HTCIA 2020 call for presentations is now open. Linux Security Labs share a review of GRR Rapid Response. Rick Holland recaps the SANS Cyber Threat Intelligence Summit 2020.

Amped Authenticate Update 15518: Customizable Reporting, Sun Position And More

Amped Software just released another update to Amped Authenticate, the leading forensic software for digital forensic experts to exploit the data behind digital images, allowing analysis of image integrity, authenticity, metadata, source and history, and detection of tampering prior to

What’s Happening In Forensics – Jan 28, 2020

Andrea Fortuna shares some thoughts on the Jeff Bezos phone hack data. Ciarán O’Brien provides a triage script to help with retrieving artifacts from compromised Citrix hosts. Magnet discuss how their new AXIOM Cyber tool can help with employee misconduct

What’s Happening In Forensics – Jan 27, 2020

Adam Harrison discusses evidence of program execution on different Windows OS versions. Magnet release AXIOM Cyber for remote acquisitions. Foxton Forensics discover some differences between Chromium and Edge Chromium artifacts. Andrew Hoog unpicks NavdDoomConductor, which tracks precise geolocation and time

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this month’s round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Forum members discuss IPv6 to IPv4 conversion in response to a warrant request. Can you explain why this prefetch folder is empty? How would you respond to

What’s Happening In Forensics – Jan 24, 2020

Steve Anson’s new book, Applied Incident Response, is now available on Amazon. Ciarán O’Brien has been working on a Jupyter notebook to help automate the process of pulling IOCs from artifacts recovered from compromised Citrix Netscalers. Heather Mahalik instigates a

Industry Roundup: Cloud Forensics

by Christa Miller Only a few short years ago, the idea of recovering forensic data from the cloud seemed like either troubling overreach, or unnecessarily redundant given the availability of evidence from mobile devices. As encryption became more prevalent on