24th July 2026

Forensic Focus Digest, July 24 2026
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Explore the impact of cumulative trauma on digital forensic investigators, faster triage with ADF Pro, feature-phone recovery using MSAB XRY Pro, and Katelyn Rogers’ Chip ID Framework and SpecTacular....

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Investigating Synology RAID: Reassembly & Logical Imaging With Atola TaskForce 2

Investigating Synology RAID: Reassembly & Logical Imaging With Atola TaskForce 2

23rd July 2026

Reconstruct Synology SHR and SHR-2 automatically, browse evidence before imaging, and acquire only the files you need with Atola TaskForce 2....read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, July 22 2026

Digital Forensics Round-Up, July 22 2026

22nd July 2026

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....read more

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

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

Deep Diving for Forensic Gold – Applications and Deleted Data

Presenter: Lee Reiber, COO at Oxygen Forensics Join the forum discussion here.View the webinar on YouTube here.Read a full transcript of the webinar here. Lee Reiber: …[golds] here at Oxygen Forensics. And there are still a few people still showing

Review: Oxygen Forensic Detective From Oxygen Forensics

Reviewed by K. Gus Dimitrelos CEO – Cyber Forensics 360 Opening the Oxygen Forensic Detective Dongle packaging I did not expect my forensics world of 20 years and counting to change so quickly. As a retired Secret Service agent, I

Oxygen Forensic Detective From Oxygen Forensics

Reviewed by K. Gus Dimitrelos CEO – Cyber Forensics 360 Opening the Oxygen Forensic Detective Dongle packaging I did not expect my forensics world of 20 years and counting to change so quickly. As a retired Secret Service agent, I

Belkasoft Releases Evidence Center 2017 And New Free Acquisition Tool

Belkasoft Evidence Center 2017 v.8.0 is released! In the new version: new free standalone and built-in acquisition tool, acquiring hard and removable drives, mobile phones and cloud data, analysis of social communications and communities detection, in-depth Volume Shadow Copy support,

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this month’s round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Forum members discuss the detection and analysis of steganography. What would be your strategy for a large-scale investigation? Share your thoughts in the forum. What do you

BlackBag’s Digital Forensic Software Now Supports iOS 10

The release of iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, and iOS 10, brings new challenges for the digital forensic community. With the constant stream of new technology, BlackBag® Technologies is working hard to provide the most current software to support all

InSig2 LawTech 2016 – Brussels 7th – 8th November

From the 7th – 8th of November 2016, Forensic Focus will be attending InSig2’s Law Tech Europe conference in Brussels, Belgium. If there are any topics you’d particularly like us to cover, or any speakers you think we should interview,

InSig2 LawTech 2016 – Brussels 7th – 8th November

From the 7th – 8th of November 2016, Forensic Focus will be attending InSig2’s Law Tech Europe conference in Brussels, Belgium. If there are any topics you’d particularly like us to cover, or any speakers you think we should interview,

Webinar: Discover Mobile Forensics Best Practices And Advanced Decoding

A recording of the webinar “Discover Mobile Forensics Best Practices And Advanced Decoding With UFED Physical Analyzer” is now online and available to view here. Join the forum discussion here.View the webinar on YouTube here.Read a full transcript of the