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

How To Help Small Governments To Respond To Ransomware Attacks

by Christa Miller Ransomware has captured a large share of mainstream media coverage in recent months, due in no small part to attacks that have crippled small local and county governments in the United States. One coordinated attack in particular

How To Help Small Governments To Respond To Ransomware Attacks

by Christa Miller Ransomware has captured a large share of mainstream media coverage in recent months, due in no small part to attacks that have crippled small local and county governments in the United States. One coordinated attack in particular

Oxygen Forensics Now Offers Image Categorization And TamTam Cloud Extraction

Oxygen Forensics, a global leader in digital forensics for law enforcement, federal, and corporate clients, today announced their flagship software, Oxygen Forensic Detective 12.1 will bring image categorization and grouping, allowing investigators to use AI to sort and categorize images

How To Easily And Accurately Play CCTV With Amped Replay

by Blake Sawyer, Amped Software For Law Enforcement across the world, one of the biggest hindrances to actionable evidence comes from CCTV. There are sites devoted to providing codecs, of which there are hundreds, and IT departments that spend most

Analysis Of Jump Lists With Belkasoft Evidence Center

Jump Lists are an artifact of the Windows OS. It first emerged in Windows 7: this artifact has been present in all the subsequent versions of the Windows OS ever since.Jump Lists make it possible to get quick access to

MSAB Releases New Versions Of XRY, XAMN And XEC

Now released: XRY 8.2, XAMN 4.5 and XEC 5.3 The new releases of XRY, XAMN and XEC introduce a range of new and improved capabilities, with a strong focus on making it faster and easier than ever for examiners and

Deleted File Fragment Dating By Analysis Of Allocated Neighbors

Ahmed Bajat shares his research at DFRWS EU 2018. Ahmed: Thank you. My name is Ahmed Bahjat, I am here from George Mason University – shoutout to Jessica Hyde. I’ll be talking about file fragments dating; this is probably your

Deleted File Fragment Dating By Analysis Of Allocated Neighbors

Ahmed Bajat shares his research at DFRWS EU 2018.Ahmed: Thank you. My name is Ahmed Bahjat, I am here from George Mason University – shoutout to Jessica Hyde. I’ll be talking about file fragments dating; this is probably your first

Digital Forensic Techniques To Investigate Password Managers

by Dr Tristan Jenkinson In part one we discussed the importance that data from password managers can play. In part two, we look at aspects an investigation may include from a digital forensics perspective. Finding evidence that a password management

Digital Forensic Techniques To Investigate Password Managers

by Dr Tristan Jenkinson In part one we discussed the importance that data from password managers can play. In part two, we look at aspects an investigation may include from a digital forensics perspective. How Password Managers Can Be Investigated

Password Trends 2019

The Passware team has analyzed over 4 billion real user passwords and gathered data on the latest trends on password use. ABOUT THE RESEARCH As sources of passwords, we have merged leaked passwords databases available over the internet, passwords recovered

Forensic Extraction Of Data From Mobile Apple Devices

This article examines the fundamentals of a forensic examination covering Apple mobile devices. A step-by-step guide describing the process of forensic data extraction and analysis exemplified by Apple mobile devices (iPhone) will be given below. This article will also familiarize

How To Digital Forensic Boot Scan A Mac With APFS

by Rich Frawley In this short 3-minute video, ADF’s digital forensic specialist Rich Frawley shows how to boot a MacBook Air (APFS, non-encrypted) with Digital Evidence Investigator. The ADF digital forensic team is hard at work putting the finishing touches

How To Digital Forensic Boot Scan A Mac With APFS

by Rich Frawley  In this short 3-minute video, ADF’s digital forensic specialist Rich Frawley shows how to boot a MacBook Air (APFS, non-encrypted) with Digital Evidence Investigator. The ADF digital forensic team is hard at work putting the finishing touches