12th August 2025

Well-Being In Digital Forensics And Policing: Insights From Hannah Bailey
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Hannah Bailey shares her journey from frontline policing to founding Blue Light Wellbeing, explaining why culturally-aware mental health support is crucial for DFIs and frontline workers....

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Oxygen Tech Bytes In July 2025

Oxygen Tech Bytes In July 2025

12th August 2025

Level up your DFIR skills in under 20 minutes with Oxygen Tech Bytes’ expert-led, on-demand webinars....read more

Neal Ysart, Co-Founder, The Coalition Of Cyber Investigators

Neal Ysart, Co-Founder, The Coalition Of Cyber Investigators

11th August 2025

Neal Ysart shares how The Coalition of Cyber Investigators tackles OSINT integrity, complex investment fraud, and the rise of AI-driven scams....read more

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

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

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this month’s round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Is there a generic reader for smart card forensics? Forum members discuss setupapi.offline.log. What tools would you recommend for pulling data from iCloud? Is there any way

What’s Happening In Forensics

Sytech have lost their accreditation after being discovered contracting work out to Fun Fone Shop. Alexis Brignoni talks about the Samsung My Files app. Oleg Afonin writes about the forensic implications of iOS jailbreaking on the Elcomsoft blog. Cellebrite share

What’s Happening In Forensics

Mike Evans talks about how digital forensics can be a window into the soul. MSAB’s Joel Bollo encourages us to transform the mobile forensic space from an ‘arms race’ to an opportunity. Jeffrey Wassenaar shows how Windows log files can

What’s Happening In Forensics

Jack Farley discusses forensic analysis of OpenVPN on iOS. Brett Shavers writes about the easy way to learn DFIR. The Eclectic Light Company has updated Nalaprop to parse natural language. Digital Forensics Magazine share news of a new UK initiative

How To Read A Moving Low-Quality License Plate Using Amped FIVE

Thanks to TV series and movies, people nowadays believe that when it comes to digital images and videos, everything is possible. Some of you may remember the “never-ending enhance” sequence in Blade Runner or the magic zoom they have in

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Sharon D. Nelson shares her thoughts on Craig Ball's recent article about the war on ediscovery. Passware explain Bitlocker decryption. Another arrest has been made in the Darkode case. OpenText share five things they've learned since GDPR came into being.

BitLocker Decryption Explained

Decrypting BitLocker volumes or images is challenging due to the various encryption options offered by BitLocker that require different information for decryption. This article explains BitLocker protectors and talks about the best ways to get the data decrypted, even for

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Sarah Edwards shares her presentation ‘Watching the Watchers‘ from Objective by the Sea. Ariel Watson discusses what blockchain means for digital evidence sharing. Bryan Ambrose demonstrates how to restore Windows sticky notes from volume shadow copies. The Digital Investigations Conference

From Crime To Court: Review Principles For UK Disclosure

by Hans Henseler UK Law Enforcement agencies are facing significant challenges related to digital evidence disclosure in criminal prosecution cases. Suspects who are charged with a crime must have access to all relevant evidence to ensure a fair trial, even

From Crime To Court: Review Principles For UK Disclosure

by Hans Henseler UK Law Enforcement agencies are facing significant challenges related to digital evidence disclosure in criminal prosecution cases. Suspects who are charged with a crime must have access to all relevant evidence to ensure a fair trial, even

What’s Happening In Forensics

Chris Dale interviews Julia Helmer of Consilio about mobile data. A new fingerprinting technique developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge allows websites to uniquely identify phones based on data from the accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer sensors. John Patzakis

Oxygen Forensics Announces Facial Recognition

Oxygen Forensics, a leading global provider of digital forensic investigation software to law enforcement, government, and enterprise organizations, announced its strategic partnership with Rank One Computing, a leading provider of facial recognition and biometrics technology.Rank One’s facial recognition technology will