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

Keith Lockhart, Director Of Training, Oxygen Forensics

Tell us about how you first got into digital forensics, and what kept you in the field. How have you seen it evolve over the past 20 years? The cliché is that many folks that ended up as a LEO

BlackBag Technologies Announces Partnership With Semantics 21

BlackBag Technologies announces a new partnership with Semantics 21, a digital forensics software company specializing in reviewing, analyzing and grading images and videos. The partnership enables both BlackBag and Semantics 21 to deliver unrivaled investigation speed without sacrificing reliability or

What’s Happening In Forensics

Atola show how to wipe 18 devices simultaneously with TaskForce. Cellebrite talk about the problem of push-button forensics and why it’s important for teams to be knowledgeable about the technology behind the tools they’re using. MSAB have released XRY 7.12.3.

What’s Happening In Forensics

Thom Langford talks about mental health in DFIR and cybersecurity. Vladimir Katalov from ElcomSoft shares his thoughts on Apple TV and Apple Watch acquisition. Wired discusses how facial recognition is being used to investigate child abuse cases. Rishi Khullar of

What’s Happening In Forensics

Vladimir Katalov talks about the most unusual things about iPhone backups. Sarah Edwards has shared her demo of APOLLO, a simple tool for advanced forensic analysis. Cellebrite share how AI image categorisation and text analysis detected a narcotics market on

What’s Happening In Forensics

Andrea Fortuna has added a new ‘Inbox’ section to the weekly round-up. Cellebrite’s UFED tool has been in the news following claims that it can unlock most iPhone and Android handsets. DME Forensics explain how to ensure their DVR Examiner

My Digital Forensics Career Pathway

by Patrick Doody Let me start by introducing myself. I’m Patrick, 39 years of age and from a working-class background. I’ve lived in London all my life, my parents moved to the UK from Southern Ireland when they were young

My Digital Forensics Career Pathway

by Patrick Doody Let me start by introducing myself. I’m Patrick, 39 years of age and from a working-class background. I’ve lived in London all my life, my parents moved to the UK from Southern Ireland when they were young

Griffeye’s Latest Release Makes Large-scale Police Collaboration Possible

Griffeye, one of the world’s premier platforms for managing, building and sharing digital media intelligence, and used by law enforcement agencies across the world, today announced the release of Griffeye Intelligence Database (GID).This new database will replace the previous Griffeye

What’s Happening In Forensics

The Eclectic Light Company share a directory of all the free software that’s available via their site. Marcos Fuentes Martínez argues that the price we pay for rapid data extraction is the loss of potentially important data. Rushit Soni shows

What’s Happening In Forensics

West Midlands Police have come under fire for advertising unpaid digital forensics roles, which include looking at IIOC. Graeme Horsman shares his paper on the need for research on digital artefacts. Kristian Lars Larsen discusses the future of AI in