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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

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

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