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

Learn The Latest Digital Forensics Trends At OpenText™ Enfuse 2019

If you work in digital forensics or information security, keeping up with all the latest threats and technologies can feel like a full-time job. It’s an area that’s growing ever-more complex, thanks to the proliferation of devices we use at

Announcing Magnet AXIOM Cyber — Now In Beta!

We’re excited to share a new solution, purpose-built for organizations needing to perform remote acquisitions and collect & analyze evidence from computers, cloud services, and mobile devices: Magnet AXIOM Cyber.AXIOM Cyber is now available for free beta testing for AXIOM

Crime Scene Investigation of GPS Data in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

by Chirath De Alwis The invention of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), also known as the drone, has the potential to address some crucial issues in society. Commercial aerial surveillance, oil/gas/mineral exploration, and disaster relief are some of them [1].

Belkasoft Evidence Center 2020 v. 9.7 Has Been Released: What’s New?

The new edition of BEC broadens its support for different mobile data sources and levels up its remote forensic module. In addition, a range of more specific features has been introduced. Major improvements and updates are as follows: – Acquisition

Nuix Achieves ISO 27001:2013 Certification

Leading SaaS offering Nuix Discover certified to industry-recognized standard. HERNDON – September 13, 2019 — Nuix (www.nuix.com), a risk, compliance, and security software company, today announced that Nuix Discover has been certified as an ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certified provider whose Information

Passware Kit 2019v4: Instantly Decrypts Symantec EPE & Is Faster For VeraCrypt

WHAT’S NEW Instant decryption of Symantec Endpoint Encryption disks via live memory analysis Support for additional VeraCrypt encryption algorithms Optimized password recovery for TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt Support for EnCase EX01 image files format Export and import of dictionaries Saving MS Office encryption

Investigating Kik Messenger In Oxygen Forensic® Detective

Kik is a free instant messaging app, which works on iPhones, Androids and Kindles. As of May 2016, Kik Messenger had approximately 300 million registered users, and was used by approximately 40% of United States teenagers. Of its 15 million

Now Released: XRY 8.1, XAMN 4.4 and XEC 5.2

With significant advances in extraction and decoding speeds, first-to-market support for the official iOS 13 release, new mobile app extraction capabilities and much more. Today’s release of new versions of XRY, XAMN and XEC gives mobile forensic examiners, investigators and

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this month’s round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Forum members help a student with ISO 17025 data sets. Why do some files have Last Accessed metadata, but no other metadata? Can you explain why a

What’s Happening In Forensics – Sep 26, 2019

Andrea Fortuna talks about analysing Windows recycle bin artifacts. Cerbero release Cerbero Suite 3.4. Lenny Zeltzer discusses malware analysis on the SANS blog. Cellebrite’s Joanna Shemesh talks about how their tools solve encryption challenges on Apple and Android devices.

Brett Shavers: I Took Belkasoft Evidence Center For A Spin Around the Block

Brett Shavers from DFIR.training reviewed Belkasoft Evidence Center (BEC). The review was dedicated to the latest version of BEC as an all-in-one digital forensic solution, which supports mobile and computer forensics as well as memory, cloud, and remote investigations. Among