22nd July 2026

Digital Forensics Round-Up, July 22 2026
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Read the latest DFIR news – SQLite tips for mobile analysts, serverless forensics, Signal database decoding, AI image detection in iLEAPP and ALEAPP, Linux timeline tooling, macOS triage updates, and more....

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Making Media Evidence Searchable: Media Forensics With Belkasoft X

Making Media Evidence Searchable: Media Forensics With Belkasoft X

22nd July 2026

Turn thousands of photos, recordings, and videos into searchable evidence with Belkasoft X and offline AI-powered BelkaGPT, helping investigators spend less time on manual review and more time on what matters....read more

Event Recap: Forensics Europe Expo (FEE) 2026

Event Recap: Forensics Europe Expo (FEE) 2026

21st July 2026

From smart doorbells and singing toys to deepfakes and forensic digital twins, Forensics Europe Expo 2026 showed just how quickly digital evidence is evolving; read our full recap for key insights from this year's event....read more

Want To Put An End To Manual Transcribing? Watch S21 Transcriber v2.0 In Action

Want To Put An End To Manual Transcribing? Watch S21 Transcriber v2.0 In Action

16th July 2026

How many investigative hours could your team save with S21 Transcriber v2.0, turning spoken evidence into searchable, reviewable intelligence in seconds?...read more

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

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this month’s round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Forum members discuss how to track employees’ phones. What kind of insurance do you have for forensic consulting? How would you go about acquiring an iPhone remotely?

Nuix Web Review & Analytics

by Scar de Courcier, Forensic Focus Background Nuix Web Review & Analytics (WRA) was created to enable analysts and non-technical investigators to collaborate on investigations. The tool allows a senior investigator or case supervisor to allocate and assign data to

Deep Dive On Portable Case Part One

One of the most important parts of the forensic process is reporting and collaborating on findings. Magnet Forensics has built Portable Case, a feature of Magnet AXIOM and Magnet IEF to help foster that collaboration and make it more integrated,

Asking A VPS To Image Itself

by Chris Cohen There is a Linux Virtual Private Server (VPS) that you have been tasked to collect using a forensically sound method while ensuring confidentiality, integrity and availability. You have the password for a user who has ssh access

Asking A VPS To Image Itself

by Chris Cohen There is a Linux Virtual Private Server (VPS) that you have been tasked to collect using a forensically sound method while ensuring confidentiality, integrity and availability. You have the password for a user who has ssh access

Bridging The Gap Between Mobile And Computer Forensics (Webinar)

In this webinar, we will look at the trends and challenges in acquiring and analysis mobile devices. We will also discuss the techniques and workflows for optimising investigations that include mobile devices, computers, and cloud-based evidence.Register now!Register now! Nuix webinar

Registration For The Magnet User Summit // 2017 Series Is Now Open

You can now register for the Magnet User Summit 2017 Series. In May, the team is heading to London and Las Vegas to bring our customers all the latest news, product features, hands-on learning, and our take on industry issues.Visit

Victor Limongelli, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, AccessData

Congratulations on being named CEO of AccessData. You previously served as President and CEO of Guidance. Why AccessData? Why now? I’ve been in the industry since 2003, I’ve known – and competed against – AccessData for many years, and I

Google’s new AI system unscrambles pixelated faces

Google’s neural networks have achieved the dream of CSI viewers everywhere: the company has revealed a new AI system capable of “enhancing” an eight-pixel square image, increasing the resolution 16-fold and effectively restoring lost data. The neural network could be

Samsung sBrowser – Android Forensics: A Look Into The Cache Files

by Robert Craig and Michael Lambert Samsung devices are a large portion of the Android OS market. Samsung has its own Internet Browser, “sbrowser”, installed onto their devices. All web browsers leave artifacts from user activity. The “sbrowser” cache files

Samsung sBrowser – Android Forensics: A Look Into The Cache Files

by Robert Craig and Michael Lambert Abstract Samsung devices are a large portion of the Android OS market.  Samsung has its own Internet Browser, “sbrowser”, installed onto their devices.  All web browsers leave artifacts from user activity.  The “sbrowser” cache