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

Nuix Increases Its Investigations Focus And Investment

Nuix (www.nuix.com) today announced it has expanded the capabilities for investigative teams to quickly cull through data and collaborate to uncover hidden insights and relationships in connected data within the Nuix lab solution for digital investigations.The Nuix lab solution gives

SANS DFIR Summit 2019 – Recap

by Christa Miller, Forensic Focus Held in Austin, Texas each summer, the SANS Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) Summit is known for offering in-depth but accessible digital forensic research — and for its laid-back, fun atmosphere. This year’s summit,

SANS DFIR Summit 2019 – Recap

by Christa Miller, Forensic Focus Held in Austin, Texas each summer, the SANS Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) Summit is known for offering in-depth but accessible digital forensic research — and for its laid-back, fun atmosphere. This year’s summit,

Nuix National Security Summit Returns To London In September

Nuix (www.nuix.com) today announed that it will once again host its National Security Summit on 25 September 2019 at London, Victoria.This exclusive one-day summit brings together digital forensic investigators from law enforcement, government and public sector organisations with the Nuix

What’s Happening In Forensics – Sep 03, 2019

Sandfly 2.2 has been released, with new capabilities around web shell detection and anti-forensics detection. Kristian Lars Larsen talks about the huge amount of discoverable data in the cloud. Derek Manky talks about investigating cases that involve obfuscation and anti-forensics.

How To Acquire Video Data With MD-VIDEO From HancomGMD

Due to the rapidly growing need for securing safe environments around the world, digital surveillance systems have become ubiquitous. A significant number of new surveillance systems are installed each year, and the importance of acquiring actionable data from these systems

How To Acquire Video Data With MD-VIDEO From HancomGMD

Due to the rapidly growing need for securing safe environments around the world, digital surveillance systems have become ubiquitous. A significant number of new surveillance systems are installed each year, and the importance of acquiring actionable data from these systems

Walkthrough: VFC 5.0

What is Virtual Forensic Computing? Virtual computing transforms investigation of the digital crime scene. Having access to the ‘digital scene of crime’ can offer huge benefits to an investigator. Whether investigating fraud, murder, child abuse or something else, seeing the

Walkthrough: How VFC 5 Can Exploit Windows Live ID (Inc PIN)

What is Virtual Forensic Computing? Virtual computing transforms investigation of the digital crime scene. Having access to the ‘digital scene of crime’ can offer huge benefits to an investigator. Whether investigating fraud, murder, child abuse or something else, seeing the

VFC 5 – Now Includes Windows Live ID Exploit (Inc PIN Accounts)

Following on from our July announcement about the successful launch of VFC 5 with all its significant New Features. (Early Customer feedback) “I have downloaded version 5 and have used it on a couple of occasions recently, I find it

What’s Happening In Forensics – Aug 30, 2019

Brett Shavers talks about the importance of making yourself uncomfortable in DFIR. Olga Milishenko from Atola demonstrates TaskForce’s drive identification capabilities. Vladimir Katalov shows how to extract and decrypt Signal history from iPhones.

Now Released: XRY 8.0.2

New XRY 8.0.2 for mobile device extraction is now available. This release adds support for iOS 13 and 79 new app versions on iOS and Android.Improved support for the Telegram app The Telegram app uses end-to-end encryption for Secret Chats

How To Use Connection Graphs By Belkasoft For Complex Cases

A proper connection graph is a must if you need to investigate a complex case with numerous individuals using different communication media. In law enforcement, it may be a drug-related case with several dealers and a network of buyers, or

Multi-Object Detection – Now In Griffeye Brain

Ever since its launch last summer, our AI technology, Griffeye Brain, has been a success in changing the way investigators approach CSA investigations. After the first release it has been continuously developed in several steps, and now it’s time to