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

How To Ingest Images From Various Tools And Acquisition Methods

Credible. Verifiable. Repeatable. Magnet Forensics Founder and CTO, Jad Saliba, and Jamie McQuaid, our Forensics Consultant, have made it clear how fundamental these elements are to an investigation. They both insist that a tool box approach is the only “right”

Barbara Guttman, Software Quality Group Manager, NIST

Barbara, tell us a bit about yourself. What's your role, and what does a typical day in your life look like? As the Manager of the Software Quality Group, I work on 3 major projects including digital forensics, software assurance

Tod Ewasko, Director Of Product Management, AccessData

Tod, you have recently moved into the role of Director of Product Management and Development at AccessData. Congratulations! Can you tell us a little more about your role and what your day to day job is like? Yes, thank you.

Detection Of Backdating The System Clock In MacOS

by Oleg Skulkin & Igor Mikhaylov Recently we received a good question from one of our DFIR mates: “How can one detect backdating of the system clock forensicating macOS?”. This is a really good question, at least for us, so

Detection Of Backdating The System Clock In MacOS

by Oleg Skulkin & Igor Mikhaylov Recently we received a good question from one of our DFIR mates: “How can one detect backdating of the system clock forensicating macOS?”. This is a really good question, at least for us, so

Digital Forensics News January 2018

BlackBag Technologies have released the latest version of MacQuisition: 2018 R1. Oxygen Forensics have teamed up with Project VIC to help fight child exploitation. Susteen’s Burner Breaker won Popular Science’s vote for Best of What's New in 2018. DriveSavers Data

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this month’s round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Do you agree with ISO 17025 being the new standard for digital forensics? Take a look at the poll and join in the discussion on the forum!

MacQuisition 2018 R1 Is Now Available

We are very excited to announce our first major release of 2018 – MacQuisition 2018 R1 is now available! MacQuisition continues to be the leading and most advanced forensic imaging software for Mac OS X and macOS.When Apple launched macOS

Charlatans In Digital Forensics

by James Zjalic There’s a topic that is rarely publicized in the world of digital forensics, but is well known to those within the field and stories are often traded between experts when they meet at conferences and conventions. That

Charlatans In Digital Forensics

by James Zjalic There’s a topic that is rarely publicized in the world of digital forensics, but is well known to those within the field and stories are often traded between experts when they meet at conferences and conventions. That

Oxygen Forensics Partners With Project VIC

Oxygen Forensics, a worldwide developer and provider of advanced forensic data examination tools for mobile devices, drones and cloud services, today announced that it is partnering and integrating its product and technology with Project VIC. Project VIC is a coalition

Developing A Standard For Chain Of Custody

by Jasmin Cosic, Miroslav Baca & Peter Grd Today there is no criminal investigation that does not contain a digital dimension. A large number of criminal offenses, whether official investigations conducted by judicial bodies or corporate investigations, contain digital evidence,

ISO 17025 For Digital Forensics – Yay Or Nay

by Robert Merriott “Much of the digital forensic community desires to have their evidence seen in court as forensically sound and bulletproof, yet do not want to go through the rigors that other traditional forensic sciences have done to prevent