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22nd October 2026

Cellebrite Genesis vs. ChatGPT: Why You Need Purpose-Built Investigative AI
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What sets purpose-built investigative AI apart from general-purpose LLMs? Discover how Cellebrite Genesis helps investigators analyze digital evidence with traceable findings, warrant-bound search, and secure data handling....

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Forensic Focus Digest, 23 Oct 2026

Forensic Focus Digest, 23 Oct 2026

23rd October 2026

Discover what’s new on Forensic Focus: explore WMI permanent event subscription persistence with Vitalii, see how MD-RED v4 handles AI-powered mobile forensic analysis, hear how user feedback shapes new features in Amped FIVE, and more....read more

Amped Podcast Episode 4 – User Needs, Forensic Minds: How New Features Are Born

Amped Podcast Episode 4 – User Needs, Forensic Minds: How New Features Are Born

22nd October 2026

Sam Abbot, Emi Polito and Andrea Frisina go behind the scenes to show how your feedback becomes new features in Amped FIVE, Replay, Authenticate and DVRConv, and why forensic soundness always comes first....read more

MD-RED v4: AI-Powered Mobile Forensic Analysis, From Raw Evidence To Case Insight

MD-RED v4: AI-Powered Mobile Forensic Analysis, From Raw Evidence To Case Insight

22nd October 2026

See how MD-RED v4 handles growing evidence volumes with AI-based media analysis, malware scanning, CDR correlation and PC messenger data in one workflow....read more

Changes To Forensic Laboratory Accreditation Requirements – ISO/IEC 17025

by Tim Alcock ISO/IEC 17025:2017 – General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories is the principal international standard for the accreditation of laboratories performing testing (including sampling) and/or calibration. Originating from ISO/IEC Guide 25, the standard has

Changes To Forensic Laboratory Accreditation Requirements – ISO/IEC 17025

by Tim Alcock ISO/IEC 17025:2017 – General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories is the principal international standard for the accreditation of laboratories performing testing (including sampling) and/or calibration. Originating from ISO/IEC Guide 25, the standard has

Digital Forensics News April 2018

Voting is still open for the Forensic 4:Cast awards 2018 – cast your votes here. The Child Rescue Coalition is partnering with Magnet Forensics to combat growing child exploitation crimes. Arman Gungor demonstrates how to forensically analyse email attachment timestamps

CRC & Magnet Forensics Partner to Combat Growing Child Sexual Exploitation Crime

Child Rescue Coalition (CRC), a nonprofit organization dedicated to combating the sexual exploitation of children, today announced its partnership with Magnet Forensics. The partnership will further enable child exploitation investigators’ efforts to better identify and convict perpetrators and use technology

New Software For Online Investigations

Open-source intelligence (OSINT) investigations are becoming an increasingly important part of investigations into different crimes, insurance claims, intellectual property rights, internal business security issues and in investigative journalism. Paliscope is a new software developed to enable structured and secure OSINT

Paraben’s New 1.7 Version of E3 Platform

Launched with new iCloud, Zimbra, WeCha and Windows 10 Artifact Support for Cortana! Paraben Corporation has leapt into Spring 2018 with the release of version 1.7 of the E3 Platform. This platform brings all digital investigation capabilities into a single

MSAB & URSA Inc. Partner on Drone Forensic Technology

Partnership unites two leading companies, enhancing and expanding drone forensic capabilities globally MSAB, the global leader in mobile forensics solutions, today announced that the company has partnered with URSA Inc., expanding tremendously on its’ drone forensic capabilities. URSA’s Idetic™ Unmanned

Oxygen Forensics Continues Leadership Position on Drone Forensics

Oxygen Forensics, a worldwide developer and provider of advanced forensic data examination tools for mobile devices, cloud services and drones, announced today that its flagship software product, Oxygen Forensic® Detective v. 10.2, offers forensic detectives the industry-first ability to extract

Introducing Griffeye Analyze DI For Visual Media Investigations

Approximately 200 people joined our “Griffeye 101: A crash course in visual media investigations” webinar to learn how Griffeye Analyze DI Pro can help speed through cases involving massive amounts of pictures and videos.We covered how to process vast amounts

PFIC Agenda Launched & Keynote Announced

11th Annual PFIC event is back where it all started in Park City, Utah. PFIC is honored to have Jenni Morse from Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.) as the 2018 PFIC keynote speaker. O.U.R. is a non-profit organization dedicated to working

Webinar: Ask An Expert: How Will APFS Impact My Investigations?

A new webinar, Ask An Expert: How Will APFS Impact My Investigations?, is available to view here. BlackBag’s latest webinar reviews the release of their powerful tools, BlackLight 2018 R1 and MacQuisition 2018 R1, which when combined, creates the world’s

Ask An Expert: How Will APFS Impact My Investigations?

Join the forum discussion here.View the webinar on YouTube here.Read a full transcript of the webinar here.Update: The release of BlackLight 2018 R1 which, when combined with MacQuisition 2018 R1, is the world’s first and only complete end-to-end acquisition, decryption,

Finding Metasploit’s Meterpreter Traces With Memory Forensics

by Oleg Skulkin & Igor Mikhaylov Metasploit Framework is not only very popular among pentesters, but is also quite often used by real adversaries. So why is memory forensics important here? Because Meterpreter, for example – an advanced, dynamically extensible