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

Passware Kit 2017 v2: Supports iOS 10.2, iOS Keychain And iCloud Photo Library

The new version of Passware Kit Forensic recovers passwords for iOS 10.2 iTunes backups, WPA/WPA2 WiFi connections. Instantly extracts passwords stored in iOS Keychain. Acquires images (including deleted ones) from iCloud Photo Library. Improves performance while running on multi-GPU systems

Phill Moore’s Round-Up Of This Month In Forensics

James Habben at 4n6ir explores the SCCM database in two posts, and Mark Mckinnon wrote an Autopsy Plugin to extract the relevant data. Didier Stevens shows how to extract password history from the ntds.dit file. Roberto Rodriguez shows how to

Belkasoft Evidence Center 8.3 Is Out with New UX and 64-bit Edition

Belkasoft rolls out a major usability and performance update to Belkasoft Evidence Center 2017. The new release features brand new layout to simplify common tasks and speed up the routine, and comes with a 64-bit edition that significantly boosts performance

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this month’s round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Do you have any recommendations for image enhancement? Add your suggestions on the forum. Forum members discuss deleted files and allocated space in EnCase. Which job category

Interview With Devon Ackerman, Senior Director, Kroll

Devon, tell us a bit about yourself. What's your background, and what's your current role? My name is Devon Ackerman, and I am currently a Senior Director in Kroll’s Cyber Security and Investigations practice. In this role, I have leadership

Devon Ackerman, Senior Director, Kroll

Devon, tell us a bit about yourself. What's your background, and what's your current role? My name is Devon Ackerman, and I am currently a Senior Director in Kroll’s Cyber Security and Investigations practice. In this role, I have leadership

Unscrambling Pixels: Forensic Science Is Not Forensic Fiction

by Martino Jerian, CEO and Founder, Amped Software In every branch of forensic science, we have to fight with the falsehoods introduced by the popular series à la CSI (hence the properly called CSI effect), but probably this belief is

Magnet AXIOM Now Supports Signal Forensics

Encrypted chat apps can be some of the hardest nuts to crack — especially when someone is trying to cover their tracks in advance — but they can also be vitally important to an investigation. Signal is a popular chat

Unscrambling Pixels: Forensic Science Is Not Forensic Fiction

by Martino Jerian, CEO and Founder, Amped Software  In every branch of forensic science, we have to fight with the falsehoods introduced by the popular series à la CSI (hence the properly called CSI effect), but probably this belief is

Magnet Forensics Portable Case Part Two – How To

In part one of our Portable Case series, our Director of Forensics, Jessica Hyde, took a look at the features and benefits of Portable Case. She highlighted the power of real-time collaboration with multiple stakeholders and having all the feedback

Phill Moore’s Round-Up Of This Month In Forensics

The Forensic 4Cast nominations are open! Vote for your favourite hardware, software, blog, book and more. Mari DeGrazia discusses what happens when Windows lies. Oxygen Forensic Detective has been updated with even more features. Michael on the Digital Forensics Podcast

The Newest Version Of XAMN Spotlight From MSAB Is Coming Soon

Find your answers. Faster, easier and with greater precision. The enhanced XAMN Spotlight will help you attain the pivotal answers you need to make sense of your data – quick, precise, easy to use. This allows investigators, detectives and managers

Magnet AXIOM 1.0.10 Now Lets You Decrypt iOS 10.2 iTunes Backups

New version also includes faster PhotoDNA processing, and support for KakaoTalk and Zalo. Magnet AXIOM 1.0.10 is now available for download!AXIOM 1.0.10 will give users: – Decryption of iOS 10.2 iTunes Backups — We’re always working on giving investigators the

Review: BlackLight 2016 R3 From BlackBag

Reviewed by Azeem – Cyber Security Professional I had no idea just how tightly BlackLight would grab onto my attention and then keep its hold. Yet, here I am. While I’ve heard positive feedback from people in the information security

BlackLight From BlackBag

Reviewed by Azeem – Cyber Security Professional Background I had no idea just how tightly BlackLight would grab onto my attention and then keep its hold. Yet, here I am. While I’ve heard positive feedback from people in the information

Oxygen Forensic Detective v. 9.2 Extracts And Parses WebKit Data Now

Oxygen Forensics, a worldwide developer and provider of advanced forensic data examination tools for mobile devices and cloud services, announced today that its flagship product, Oxygen Forensic Detective 9.2, now features the ability to extract WebKit data from iOS and