19th August 2025

UPCOMING WEBINAR – Retail Under Siege: Fighting Back Against Ransomware With Next-Gen Forensics
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Retailers face rising cyber threats—join Exterro's Sept 4 webinar to learn fast, modern forensic response strategies and protect your brand....

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Digital Forensics Jobs Round-Up, August 18 2025

Digital Forensics Jobs Round-Up, August 18 2025

18th August 2025

Explore a selection of the latest DFIR employment opportunities in this week’s Forensic Focus jobs round-up....read more

Enterprise Turns To AI For Speed And Accuracy In DFIR

Enterprise Turns To AI For Speed And Accuracy In DFIR

14th August 2025

Magnet Forensics explores how AI is revolutionizing speed and accuracy in DFIR....read more

Breaking Digital Barriers: Galaxy S25 & Z Flip Fully Supported

Breaking Digital Barriers: Galaxy S25 & Z Flip Fully Supported

14th August 2025

Gain full filesystem access to the latest Samsung Galaxy devices with MD-NEXT....read more

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

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

What’s Happening In Forensics

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