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....

Forensic Focus Digest, August 08 2025

Forensic Focus Digest, August 08 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

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

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

Can Your Investigation Interpret Emoji?

by Christa Miller, Forensic Focus Emoji are everywhere — including in your evidence. Used across private-messaging apps and email, social media, and even in passwords and account names, emoji are pictographic representations of objects, moods, and words. They’re a convenient

Viber Messenger Extraction In Oxygen Forensic Detective

Viber is a cross-platform voice over IP and instant messaging software operated by Rakuten. The software app is provided as freeware for Android, Apple iOS, Microsoft Windows, macOS and Linux platforms. Initially the messenger was developed in 2010 by the

French Agency Uses Chip-Off Technique To Solve A Critical Case

By: Christophe Gabay, MSAB Area Sales Manager Recovering data from mobile devices continues to bring new challenges to investigators, and using “chip-off” and Joint Test Action Group (JTAG) methods have become topics of growing interest in the law enforcement community.

What’s Happening In Forensics – Nov 19, 2019

NirSoft release a new tool, MobileFileSearch, allowing users to search files on a mobile device attached to their computer. Arman Gungor shares some updates to Forensic Email Collector. DFRWS has a brand new website – take a look and register

Walkthrough: XRY Photon Manual

XRY Photon is a solution designed for recovering smartphone app data that’s inaccessible through normal extraction techniques. Now the power of XRY Photon has been expanded to cover hundreds of additional apps, with a new manual option. Before using XRY

How To Use Griffeye Brain – Artificial Intelligence

The Griffeye Brain in Analyze DI Pro version 19.2 brings the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence to help you quickly locate and identify child sex abuse material within your investigations.In addition, the Griffeye Brain now has improved object

Walkthrough: XRY Photon Manual

XRY Photon is a solution designed for recovering smartphone app data that’s inaccessible through normal extraction techniques. Now the power of XRY Photon has been expanded to cover hundreds of additional apps, with a new manual option. Before using XRY

How To Use Griffeye Brain – Artificial Intelligence

The Griffeye Brain in Analyze DI Pro version 19.2 brings the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence to help you quickly locate and identify child sex abuse material within your investigations. In addition, the Griffeye Brain now has improved

BlackBag Partners With Passware To Provide Full Disk Decryption In New Release

BlackBag Technologies announces a new partnership with the leader in encrypted electronic evidence discovery and decryption, Passware.BlackBag Technologies announced a partnership with Passware ahead of the upcoming release of BlackLight. BlackLight quickly analyzes computer volumes and mobile devices to shed

What’s Happening In Forensics – Nov 18, 2019

Amber Schroader of Paraben discusses smartphone forensics and the Internet of Things. Magnet are now offering a new training course, in conjuncton with Grayshift. Shellbags support has now been added to USB Detective.

Three Reasons Why Call Detail Records Analysis Is Not “Junk Science”

by Patrick Siewert, Principal Consultant, Pro Digital Forensic Consulting Since introducing our private sector clients to the impact that cellular call detail records (CDR) analysis & mapping can have on their cases, we’ve had a lot of robust discussions with

Review: MacQuisition From BlackBag

by Jade James MacQuisition is an effective 3-in-1 tool which provides the facility to acquire data live from a running system, as well as offering targeted data collection and forensic imaging. MacQuisition runs on Mac OS X and safely boots

MacQuisition From BlackBag

by Jade James MacQuisition is an effective 3-in-1 tool which provides the facility to acquire data live from a running system, as well as offering targeted data collection and forensic imaging. MacQuisition runs on Mac OS X and safely boots