16th July 2026

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Forensic Focus Briefs National Policing and Forensic Bodies on Investigator Well-Being

Forensic Focus Briefs National Policing and Forensic Bodies on Investigator Well-Being

15th July 2026

Evidence from the Forensic Focus International Well-Being Study has been formally submitted to Parliament and to the national bodies responsible for policing standards, practitioner welfare and forensic quality in the UK. Here's who we've briefed, what we're asking for, and what happens next....read more

The End Of Manual Transcription Starts Here

The End Of Manual Transcription Starts Here

14th July 2026

Spend less time manually reviewing audio and video evidence with S21 Transcriber v2.0 - an offline, rapid and accurate way to turn spoken material into searchable, structured intelligence....read more

Katelyn Rogers, Digital Forensic Analyst, Mississippi Cyber Initiative

Katelyn Rogers, Digital Forensic Analyst, Mississippi Cyber Initiative

14th July 2026

Digital forensics analyst Katelyn Rogers discusses bridging academia and law enforcement, developing open-source investigative tools, and encouraging more women and early-career professionals to enter the field....read more

Review Of MacQuisition From BlackBag Technologies

Reviewed by Scar de Courcier, Forensic Focus BlackBag Technologies was co-founded by Ben Charnota and Derrick Donnelly – both ex-Apple employees who also happen to come from law enforcement backgrounds. With their combined experience, it’s no wonder BlackBag is a

MacQuisition From BlackBag Technologies

Reviewed by Scar de Courcier, Forensic Focus BlackBag Technologies was co-founded by Ben Charnota and Derrick Donnelly – both ex-Apple employees who also happen to come from law enforcement backgrounds. With their combined experience, it’s no wonder BlackBag is a

Magnet Forensics Acquires Tracks Inspector

Magnet Forensics, a global leader in developing digital investigation software for smartphone, cloud, and computer examinations, today announces its acquisition of Tracks Inspector from Tracks Inspector B.V., a software company based in The Hague, Netherlands. With the acquisition of Tracks

Forensic Email Collector v3.3 By Metaspike Has Been Released

Metaspike has released v3.3 of Forensic Email Collector with exciting new features and numerous improvements. The highlights of this release are (see changelog): * Exchange / Office 365 delegation support.* Email notifications for completed acquisition sessions.* Automatic detection of the

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this month’s round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Forum members discuss the reality behind the Making A Murderer series. Can you help vdhee with RAID recovery? The new Windows 10 Timeline feature attracts some attention

Webinar – Griffeye 101: A Crash Course In Visual Media Investigations

A new webinar, Griffeye 101: A Crash Course In Visual Media Investigations, is available to view here. The explosion and volume of digital images and videos captured by CCTV, smartphones, tablets, digital cameras, body worn cameras, and dash cams presents

Griffeye 101: A Crash Course In Visual Media Investigations

Join the forum discussion here.View the webinar on YouTube here.Read a full transcript of the webinar here.Transcript Rey Navarro: Hello everybody. We haven’t started the webinar yet. This is Rey Navarro with Griffeye, and I see that we got a

BlackLight 2018 R2 Is Now Available From BlackBag

BlackLight 2018 R2 is officially released and is now available. This release includes the top three most popular customer requests and provides new support for Spotlight artifacts. What's New and Improved? – Ability to view and filter across multiple devices–

Digital Forensics News July 2018

Magnet Forensics have released a new white paper showing how to acquire and parse data from iOS 11 devices. Griffeye’s Analyze 18.1 can now perform facial recognition in both images and videos. How do you make sure your paper gets

Passware Decrypts New Apple File System

Passware announced the anniversary release of the all-new Passware Kit 2018 v1! The new version of Passware Kit Forensic features a redesigned user interface and the ability to decrypt Apple File System (APFS) disks and macOS High Sierra Keychains. Memory

Giving Back In DFIR

by Jessica Hyde, Magnet Forensics A few months back I was on my way to BSides NoVa, having a conversation with someone competing in the CTF about where his team would donate the prize money to if they won. I

Giving Back In DFIR

by Jessica Hyde, Magnet Forensics A few months back I was on my way to BSides NoVa, having a conversation with someone competing in the CTF about where his team would donate the prize money to if they won. I

Oxygen Forensics Brings iCloud Extractions Back Online

Oxygen Forensics has released a maintenance update to Oxygen Forensic® Detective v. 10.3.2 to add support within Oxygen Forensic® Cloud Extractor for the latest Apple security standards protecting iCloud account data. Recent changes made by Apple to its security standards

Tina Wu, DPhil Cyber Security Student, University of Oxford

Tina, you're a DPhil student in Cyber Security at the University of Oxford. What was it that first sparked your interest in digital forensics and cyber security? I first became interested in forensics when in college, I have always had