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

Clearing The Way With Magnet OUTRIDER

Magnet Forensics is proud to introduce Magnet OUTRIDER — a new and easy way for officers and investigators to check devices for digital contraband. OUTRIDER is an intuitive preview tool that quickly scans smartphones and computers to determine if there

What Changes Do We Need To See In eDiscovery? Part III

by Harold Burt-Gerrans At the end of Part 2, I put forth an argument that de-duplication should always be done globally to bring the data set down to just unique documents. And now that you’re convinced (or should have been)

What Changes Do We Need To See In eDiscovery? Part III

by Harold Burt-Gerrans Duplicative Documents At the end of Part 2, I put forth an argument that de-duplication should always be done globally to bring the data set down to just unique documents. And now that you’re convinced (or should

Crimes Against Children Conference 2019 Recap Part I: Technology

by Christa Miller, Forensic Focus Celebrating its 31st year, the Crimes Against Children Conference ran from 12-15 July 2019 in Dallas, Texas. The conference kicked off with opening remarks by Lynn M. Davis, President and Chief Executive Officer of the

Crimes Against Children Conference 2019 Recap Part I: Technology

by Christa Miller, Forensic Focus  Celebrating its 31st year, the Crimes Against Children Conference ran from 12-15 July 2019 in Dallas, Texas. The conference kicked off with opening remarks by Lynn M. Davis, President and Chief Executive Officer of the

Amped Software Is Hiring A Forensic Expert And Software Trainer

Amped Software is currently hiring a Forensic Expert and Software Trainer to join their team at its headquarters in Trieste, Italy (a remote position can be considered). Amped Software develops solutions for the analysis and enhancement of images and videos

How To Boot Scan A Mac With APFS And FileVault 2

Hi, I’m Rich Frawley and I’m the Digital Forensic Specialist with ADF Solutions. Today we are going to conduct a boot scan of a MacBook Air that has APFS and FileVault 2 enabled. At this point you have decided on

How To Boot Scan A Mac With APFS And FileVault 2

Hi, I’m Rich Frawley and I’m the Digital Forensic Specialist with ADF Solutions. Today we are going to conduct a boot scan of a MacBook Air that has APFS and FileVault 2 enabled. At this point you have decided on

What’s Happening In Forensics – Oct 16, 2019

Haroen Bashir of Fox-IT shows how to use machine learning to detect random filenames. The Eclectic Light Company looks inside MacOS Catalina's unified log. John Patzakis talks about why incident reporting requirements under GDPR and CCPA require strict protocols when

What’s Happening In Forensics – Oct 15, 2019

A new utility can now export event logs into different formats. Amped show how to get a better visual inspection of image evidence. US Attorney General William Barr has urged Facebook not to introduce encryption to its Messenger service, since

Webinar: Get The Most Out Of Your Digital Media Investigations

Training experts’ tips & tricks webinar (find out more about the speakers here)Date: October 23, 2019Time: 3 pm CEST (9 am EDT)Registration: Click hereIn this webinar, Griffeye’s training experts will walk you through a session packed with their best tips

What’s Happening In Forensics – Oct 14, 2019

Igor Mikhailov shares his thoughts on the best digital forensic tools. Atola give a demo of their TaskForce tool. Sarah Edwards and Heather Mahalik share a presentation about auto forensics. Matt Edmondson takes a quick look at MDXFIND. The US