20th August 2025

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 20 2025
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Read the latest digital forensics news – SANS releases DFIR Summit playlist, UAC launches v3.2.0, Neal Ysart discusses the Coalition of Cyber Investigators, and more....

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Wrapping Up The S21 Transcriber Spotlight Session – What We’ve Covered

Wrapping Up The S21 Transcriber Spotlight Session – What We’ve Covered

20th August 2025

Explore S21 Transcriber: a fully offline, court-ready tool with free 30-day access and training....read more

UPCOMING WEBINAR – Retail Under Siege: Fighting Back Against Ransomware With Next-Gen Forensics

UPCOMING WEBINAR – Retail Under Siege: Fighting Back Against Ransomware With Next-Gen Forensics

19th August 2025

Retailers face rising cyber threats—join Exterro's Sept 4 webinar to learn fast, modern forensic response strategies and protect your brand....read more

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

Vigilance In Action: Monitoring Typosquatting Domains

In today’s digital landscape, cybercriminals are constantly devising new and innovative ways to infiltrate and compromise corporate systems. One such tactic is called typosquatting: the registration of domains that closely resemble a real organization in order to trick users into

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 21 2024

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Digital Detectives vs. Android 14: overcoming new forensic challenges The release of Android 14 requires digital forensics analysts to update their extraction and analysis methods. Analysts must develop new techniques

Decrypt Data In Air-Gapped Environment With Passware Kit Ultimate

We are excited to announce the release of the special edition of Passware Kit Ultimate for air-gapped workspaces! This edition empowers investigators to access data from locked mobile devices, computers, encrypted disks, and files – all with a single license,

GMDSOFT: MD-VIDEO AI Unveils New Features And Expands Global Reach

MD-VIDEO AI, an AI-based video forensic software, is proud to announce a suite of innovative features and significant expansions to its global capabilities. These updates underscore our commitment to providing cutting-edge solutions for law enforcement and forensic professionals worldwide.  New

Is There A Mental Health Crisis In Digital Forensics?

Content warning – this post discusses suicidal feelings. Si: Welcome everybody to the Forensic Focus Podcast. Today we have back with us, much to our huge pleasure, Professor Sarah Morris from the University of Southampton. Forensics guru, communicator with washing

Take the Forensic Focus 2024 Survey Now!

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Our VERY SHORT survey is your chance to tell us what you want to see at Forensic Focus and to share your thoughts on one or two other digital forensics issues. Click the link below to have your say: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7PVBWTT The

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 14 2024

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: iOS 17- The “Forever” Setting That Isn’t… Or Is It? Digital forensics expert Heather Barnhart reveals a significant change in iOS 17’s message retention tracking mechanism. The update shifts from

Meet The New FTK 8.1 From Exterro

For further information and to sign up for a free trial, visit: https://go.exterro.com/FTKfreetrialsignup. Lynne: Hello, everybody, hopefully you can hear us. We are just going to wait, I don’t know, 60 seconds to let some people file in. We have

Forensic Focus Digest, August 09 2024

Read our digest of the latest content on the Forensic Focus website, including news, interviews, webinars, articles, press releases, and more.

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 07 2024

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Sleepless in Cupertino: A Forensic Dive into Apple Watch Sleep Tracking Digital forensic experts have unveiled the potential of Apple Watch’s Sleep app as a crucial tool in criminal investigations.

Chad Gish, Forensic Expert, Magnet Forensics

Chad Gish has just closed the books on an incredibly impactful career with the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD)—building a truly world-class lab and helping to reduce some of the crime affecting the Nashville area. In his time with the

Effortless Management Of A Password Recovery Cluster

Handling encrypted items in a forensic case, especially with Full Disk Encryption (FDE) images and archives, requires significant computational resources. This task is impossible without relying on network-distributed, hardware-accelerated decryption. This in turn demands a convenient tool to distribute password

Digital Forensics Round-Up, July 31 2024

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: UK-based digital forensic investigators and the impact of exposure to traumatic material A new study reveals that nearly 30% of UK digital forensic investigators report high to severe levels of