29th September 2026

Roadblocks Ahead! Navigating The Major Issues Of Mobile Forensics
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Magnet Forensics' Christopher Vance tackles the biggest roadblocks in mobile forensics, from keeping a seized phone isolated, powered and safe from reboot timers to handling 1TB devices and proprietary data....

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Belkasoft Releases Belkasoft X v2.12, Adding Offline Translation And AI-Assisted Database Analysis

Belkasoft Releases Belkasoft X v2.12, Adding Offline Translation And AI-Assisted Database Analysis

29th September 2026

Belkasoft X 2.12 brings offline AI-powered translation, smarter SQLite analysis, expanded mobile and Windows evidence support, and more flexible acquisition workflows....read more

Green Meets Blue: A Brief RCS Forensic Excursion

Green Meets Blue: A Brief RCS Forensic Excursion

29th September 2026

What does RCS mean for digital forensics? MSAB Digital Forensic Specialist Markus Hess breaks down how RCS works, who uses it and where investigators can find the forensic evidence....read more

ADF Solutions Named A Major Player In IDC MarketScape For Worldwide Digital Forensics Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment

ADF Solutions Named A Major Player In IDC MarketScape For Worldwide Digital Forensics Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment

28th September 2026

ADF Solutions has been named a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Digital Forensics Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment, recognizing the company's continued focus on intelligent triage, automation, and AI-driven digital investigations....read more

Cellular Provider Record Retention Periods

by Patrick Siewert, Principal Consultant, Pro Digital Forensic Consulting I just returned from a fantastic few days at the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association 2017 annual conference. I spent 3 days meeting with litigators from all over Virginia about the various

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this month’s round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Forum members explain the difference between unallocated and unused space. How do you format your mobile forensic reports? Can you help Nirnias with encrypted drive data retrieval?

Interview With Professor Peter Sommer

Peter, tell us a bit about yourself. What is your background and your current role? I read law at Oxford and had a first career in book publishing. At that time although we all knew what a computer was most

Professor Peter Sommer

Peter, tell us a bit about yourself. What is your background and your current role? I read law at Oxford and had a first career in book publishing. At that time although we all knew what a computer was most

Forensic Focus Sponsors Golf Day In Aid Of Childline

On Thursday the 16th of March 2017, Forensic Focus sponsored a golf day for Childline, who provide a free, confidential service to young people who need to talk. About Childline Childline’s goal is to help people up to the age

BlackBag’s Mobilyze 2017 R1 Supports iOS 10.3

BlackBag Technologies is pleased to announce the release of the latest version of our mobile device triage tool, Mobilyze 2017 R1. New features added to this version of Mobilyze are designed to enhance the overall Mobilyze user experience and increase

Techno Security 2017 – Myrtle Beach 4th – 7th June

From the 4th to the 7th of June 2017, Forensic Focus will be attending the Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA. If there are any topics you’d particularly like us to cover, or any

Techno Security 2017 – Myrtle Beach 4th – 7th June

From the 4th to the 7th of June 2017, Forensic Focus will be attending the Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA. If there are any topics you’d particularly like us to cover, or any

Oxygen Forensics Used To Teach Students In Capitol Technology University

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, is being used by professors teaching digital forensic classes within the BS

Webinar: Methods For Parsing New Applications

Tuesday, March 28 at 1:00PM EST / 10:00AM PST / 5:00PM GMT Wednesday, March 29 at 9:00AM EST / 6:00AM PST / 1:00PM GMT Every day new mobile applications are launched and made available. Often these new apps contain chat

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