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

Martin Westman, Product Specialist, MSAB

Martin, you've worked for MSAB for 15 years. What changes in mobile forensics stand out to you from that time? The most important one during this 15-year period would be the introduction of actual smartphones, because they were the biggest

Robert O’Leary, Head Of Investigations For USG & Corporate, Nuix

Robert, your career in digital forensics began in the industry's infancy. What first brought you to high tech crimes with the New Jersey State Police? I worked undercover narcotics investigations and I worked in a narcotic trafficking interdiction unit in

Passware Kit 2020v1: Dictionary Manager and Support for VeraCrypt GPT

Passware Kit 2020 v1 introduces a built-in Dictionary Manager, support for VeraCrypt GPT system encryption, and optimized decryption process for hard drives. The new version also extracts passwords from Windows 10/8 standalone systems protected with Windows Hello: PIN and Picture

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this month’s round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. How would you recover a $J file from a UsnJrnl file in a shadow copy? Forum members discuss containing and recovering a malware infected server. Share your

How To Parse AirDrop Artifacts In Magnet AXIOM

Hey everyone, Trey Amick from Magnet Forensics here. Today we’re going to be looking at a new set of artifacts specific to Mac investigations, which will be released as part of the AXIOM 3.8 release. Today we’re going to be

How To Parse AirDrop Artifacts In Magnet AXIOM

Hey everyone, Trey Amick from Magnet Forensics here. Today we’re going to be looking at a new set of artifacts specific to Mac investigations, which will be released as part of the AXIOM 3.8 release. Today we’re going to be

Forensic Focus Legal Update December 2019 – Part I

by Christa Miller In cooperation with the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) and SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics, Forensic Focus is proud to offer a quarterly roundup of the latest legal developments around digital forensic

Forensic Focus Legal Update December 2019 – Part I

by Christa Miller  In cooperation with the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) and SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics, Forensic Focus is proud to offer a quarterly roundup of the latest legal developments around digital forensic

Interview With Stefano Bianchi, Amped Software

Stefano, tell us about your multiple roles as Trainer, Software Developer and Technical Support at Amped. What does a typical workday look like for you? My workday is quite unpredictable so this question is rather hard to answer! My day

Stefano Bianchi, Amped Software

Stefano, tell us about your multiple roles as Trainer, Software Developer and Technical Support at Amped. What does a typical workday look like for you? My workday is quite unpredictable so this question is rather hard to answer! My day

BlackBag Announces Release Of BlackLight 2019 R3

BlackLight 2019 R3 is released! This release includes new integrations and updates to allow BlackLight to work seamlessly with other tools essential to your forensic toolkit. BlackBag has enhanced features added earlier this year to make them even more powerful

Webinar: New Triage Capabilities In BlackLight

A new webinar, New Triage Capabilities In BlackLight, is available to view here. Join the forum discussion here.<BR>View the webinar on YouTube here.<BR>Read a full transcript of the webinar here.

New Triage Capabilities In BlackLight

Join the forum discussion here.View the webinar on YouTube here.Read a full transcript of the webinar here. Julie: Hi everyone, thanks for joining our webinar today on our new capabilities in BlackLight. My name is Julie O’Shea, I’m the Global

New Release: XRY 8.2.2 Is Now Available

New XRY 8.2.2 is now available, enabling access to 50+ locked Samsung Galaxy A/J/S models and offering improved iOS support. The new version of XRY expands the physical bypass support and automatic decoding to a total of 83 models in

Enfuse 2019 – Recap

by Mattia Epifani The Enfuse Conference, organized by OpenText, took place from the 11th-14th of November 2019 at the Venetian Conference Center in Las Vegas. More than 1,000 attendees from 40 countries were present, coming from different fields like digital