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

Improved Searching And Filtering In Magnet AXIOM

One feature enhancement in Magnet AXIOM that IEF users will appreciate is improvements in searching and filtering. In AXIOM, we’ve made searching and filtering almost instant. You can stack filters to help narrow your search criteria and swap out any

Malware Can Hide, But It Must Run

It’s October, haunting season. However, in the forensics world, the hunting of evil never ends. And with Windows 10 expected to be the new normal, digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) professionals who lack the necessary (memory) hunting skills will

Malware Can Hide, But It Must Run

by Alissa Torres, SANS Certified Instructor It’s October, haunting season. However, in the forensics world, the hunting of evil never ends. And with Windows 10 expected to be the new normal, digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) professionals who lack

Breaking the Android Puzzle with Oxygen Forensic® Detective v. 9.0

Oxygen Forensics, the worldwide developer and provider of advanced forensic data examination tools for mobile devices and cloud services, announced today that it has added a Jet-Imager module to its Oxygen Forensic® Detective product that allows users to acquire data

The “I’ve Been Hacked” Defence

by Yuri Gubanov, Oleg Afonin(C) Belkasoft Research, 2016 AbstractThis article was inspired by an active discussion in one of the forensic listservs. Original post was asking on how to fight with an argument “This is not me, this is a

The “I’ve Been Hacked” Defence

By: Yuri Gubanov, Oleg Afonin (C) Belkasoft Research, 2016 Abstract This article was inspired by an active discussion in one of the forensic listservs. Original post was asking on how to fight with an argument “This is not me, this

Arsenal Recon Launches Breakthrough Microsoft Windows Hibernation Forensic Tool

Hibernation Recon Provides Digital Forensics Experts with Unprecedented Access to Hibernation Data Arsenal Recon, digital forensics experts building powerful tools to improve the analysis of electronic evidence, announced the formal release of Hibernation Recon today. Hibernation Recon extracts valuable information

New Performance Enhancements in Magnet AXIOM Mean Faster Results

Processing Times Reduced Dramatically in AXIOM 1.0.6 By Jad Saliba, Founder and CTO at Magnet Forensics Last week, we released Magnet AXIOM version 1.0.6. This update included a number of features and fixes, but one of the main goals was

BlackBag® helps Saskatoon Police Service put a criminal behind bars

BlackBag® Technologies’ premiere digital forensic software, BlackLight® helped put a man, convicted of possessing 450 child pornography images, behind bars. Marcel Cole Beuker, whose trial was held in March of this year, claimed the images found on a hard drive

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this month’s round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Can you help honor_the_data work out this USB storage timestamp anomaly? Forum members discuss iPhone 4S iTunes backup encryption. Should you apply for ISO/IEC 17020 and 17025

Oxygen Forensics Speeds Up Forensic Processing of Android Devices

Oxygen Forensics, the worldwide developer and provider of advanced forensic data examination tools for mobile devices, announced today an agreement with the MITRE Corporation Technology Transfer Office that will make it possible for customers of Oxygen Forensics to take advantage

Why False Positives Are Important

By Jamie McQuaid Most forensic examiners are familiar with seeing false positives in their search or processing results. False positives will always be present in tools that conduct some form of data carving in their searching and/or processing. I often

Webinar: Challenges Mobile Devices Pose in Global Investigations

11 October9:00AM ET / 2:00PM UK / 3:00PM CEST Discussion Topics: – To some extent, the ubiquity of mobile devices—and many people’s use of them as their primary digital interface—has come in the aftermath of the first wave of standards

Webinar: How To Break Passcodes / Patterns On Locked Android Phones

A recording of the webinar “How To Easily Break Pincodes / Passcodes / Patterns On Locked Android Phones” is now online and available to view here. Join the forum discussion here.View the webinar on YouTube here.Read a full transcript of