2nd October 2026

Block Hash Scan: Illegal File Triage Completed On Site
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See how MD-LIVE’s Block Hash Scan helps investigators identify known target files on-site without reading every file in full, and what a zero-detection result really means....

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Forensic Focus Digest, October 02 2026

Forensic Focus Digest, October 02 2026

2nd October 2026

Discover what’s new on Forensic Focus – explore the biggest challenges in mobile forensics with Magnet Forensics, discover faster investigative workflows with Cellebrite Genesis, meet Radim Motycka, founder of Proofsnap, and more....read more

Passware Kit Mobile 2026 v5 Decrypts Samsung Galaxy Watch

Passware Kit Mobile 2026 v5 Decrypts Samsung Galaxy Watch

1st October 2026

Passware Kit Mobile 2026 v5 expands mobile forensics with Samsung Galaxy Watch 4/5/6 passcode recovery and data extraction, new Samsung and Unisoc device support, Enpass for Android decryption, and faster workflows with immediate passcode recovery....read more

Trust Is Not A Feature. It Is The Foundation.

Trust Is Not A Feature. It Is The Foundation.

1st October 2026

Discover what agencies should expect from a digital forensics partner and how MSAB puts transparency, accountability and long-term commitment at the heart of its work....read more

Passware Kit Forensic 2020 From Passware

Encryption, passwords, pass codes and other security measures are seemingly the ever-moving target in digital forensics. Whether your investigative focus is mobile devices and trying to bypass or obtain the pass code to collect valuable phone/tablet data; computer systems involved

Shahar Tal, VP Research, Cellebrite

Shahar, tell us about yourself, your role as VP Research, and Cellebrite’s Security Research Labs. I have the outstanding honor to work with one of the most brilliant teams in our profession. I lead Cellebrite’s Security Research Labs, which are

Upgraded XRY 9.2.1 And XAMN 5.2.1 Now Available

Greater Checkm8 extraction support for iOS, improved decoding of Warrant returns and much more. Today’s XRY 9.2.1 and XAMN 5.2.1 releases arrive with across the board improvements. Release highlights: The XRY integrated jailbreak tool, based on the checkm8 exploit, now

Fighting Child Exploitation With Digital Forensics

Why it matters Who will listen to the hundreds, if not thousands, of silent children who cry out for justice after being victims of manipulators or authority figures? You would think that the answer to the question “why does it

Automated Control Logic Forensics In Industrial Control Systems

Upon reading the title, the first few questions that might come to a reader’s mind are: what are Industrial Control Systems? Why are they important? How can an attacker attack them? What is control logic, engineering software, etc.? How does

25 Days, 25 Questions: Part 4 – Lab And Tool Standards

Editor’s note: This article concludes our four-part series written by Mr. Santosh Khadsare, our guest digital forensics expert from New Delhi, India, based upon his recent LinkedIn series, #25Days25Questions. More about Mr. Khadsare is in his bio below. On 18

VFC 5.2 And VFC Mount

Virtual Forensic Computing (VFC) was first launched to the digital forensic community in 2007. It is the original and still the go to virtualisation solution for the digital forensic investigator. VFC makes it easy to create a Virtual Machine (VM)

Managing Mountains Of Evidence

One truism about digital forensics is that every case is different.  As the technology has evolved, we have had to come up with new and inventive ways to problem-solve and work around issues in both the mobile and computer forensic