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

BlackBag Announces New Partnership With Berla

BlackBag Technologies announces a new partnership with industry-leading vehicle forensics company, Berla. In today’s investigations, it is now commonplace to have multiple digital devices associated to one case. As such, consolidating acquired devices is critical when reconstructing a sequence of

What’s Happening In Forensics – Aug 21, 2019

John Walsh speaks about child protection investigations at Cellebrite’s TechDay. Amped share how to use Amped FIVE's color deconvolution filter to show relevant elements from color-mixed images.

What’s Happening In Forensics – Aug 19, 2019

Harlan Carvey discusses what ‘program execution‘ really means. Brett Shavers shares how the lessons he learned in the Marine Corps inform his digital forensics career. Anuj Soni shares how to perform code analysis with Ghidra. Cellebrite share a case study

Huawei Device Support In Oxygen Forensic Detective

Oxygen Forensic Detective offers various methods of data extraction from Huawei devices. First, Huawei devices can be connected via USB cable for logical or physical acquisition depending on the model and Android OS version. However, with constantly growing device security

Interview With Nicole Odom, Forensic Scientist, Virginia DFS

Nicole, you started out in chemistry and biological sciences before moving from orthopedics to digital forensics. What prompted you to pivot into the cyber world? I actually get asked that question quite frequently, as my background has a little bit

What’s Happening In Forensics – Aug 16, 2019

Oxygen Forensics talk about the allegations that Huawei has been spying on US users. Harlan Carvey follows up with a second post on ‘chasing the DFIR cure.’

What’s Happening In Forensics – Aug 14, 2019

Cyan Forensics are partnering with NCMEC, America’s National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, to help detect child abuse material. Greg Masi shares a list of folder type identifiers.

Review: Oxygen Forensic Detective From Oxygen Forensics

by Jade James Oxygen Forensics specialise in mobile device, cloud, drone and IoT data extraction. Oxygen pride themselves in giving law enforcement, federal agencies and enterprises access to data at top speeds, providing advanced digital forensic data extraction and analytical

Oxygen Forensic Detective From Oxygen Forensics

by Jade James Oxygen Forensics specialise in mobile device, cloud, drone and IoT data extraction. Oxygen pride themselves in giving law enforcement, federal agencies and enterprises access to data at top speeds, providing advanced digital forensic data extraction and analytical

What’s Happening In Forensics – Aug 13, 2019

Harlan Carvey asks how our customers determine the accuracy of digital forensic investigations. Cellebrite announce a webinar about finding digital evidence in human trafficking investigations. Amped show how to magnify images for use in investigations.

What’s Happening In Forensics – Aug 12, 2019

The Crimes Against Children Conference is under way in Texas – follow along with the updates on Twitter. Farrell Fritz talks about metadata and its potential role in litigations. Is this the first wedding at an industry conference?

Scott Sattler, Incident Response Manager, HealthFirst

Scott, can you tell us a little about yourself, your role at HealthFirst and how you came to work in digital forensics? I have worked in cyber defense for the last two decades and have witnessed the changing threat landscape

Scott Sattler, Incident Response Manager, HealthFirst

Scott, can you tell us a little about yourself, your role at HealthFirst and how you came to work in digital forensics? I have worked in cyber defense for the last two decades and have witnessed the changing threat landscape