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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

Belkasoft LLC Is Hiring A Sales Specialist/North America

Why work for Belkasoft? We are smart and humorous; we have a great product, used in 70+ countries all over the world; we are growing quickly and love our work. Our tools help police and other LE organizations to make

Comprehensive Forensic Chat Examination with Belkasoft

Call logs, SMSes, emails, social networks communications and, of course, chats in instant messengers can give you a lot of important information in a course of a forensic investigation. Let’s see how one single chat product can be examined from

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 extract data from a device with a faulty USB connection. What is the most forensically sound way to acquire RAM on a

Elcomsoft Extracts iPhone Calls, Contacts, Calendars and Web Browsing Activities

ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. updates Elcomsoft Phone Breaker, the company’s mobile acquisition tool. Version 6.30 gains the ability to extract information about the user’s recent Web browsing activities, notes and calendars from the cloud. In contrast with cloud backups, this information

Acquiring Removable Drives, Mobile Devices, RAM And Cloud Storage

Presenter: Yuri Gubanov, CEO, Belkasoft Join the forum discussion here.View the webinar on YouTube here.Read a full transcript of the webinar here. Yuri Gubanov: Hello everyone, My name is Yuri, I am from Belkasoft, and today I am going to

The Ugly Side of Two-Factor Authentication

by ElcomSoft Two-factor authentication is great when it comes to securing access to someone’s account. It’s not so great when it gets in the way of accessing your account. However, in emergency situations things can turn completely ugly. In this

BlackBag’s Forensic Certification Courses Scheduled for 2017

BlackBag®'s EFT I and II are now open for registration for 2017. Sign up now to reserve your spot! ESSENTIAL FORENSIC TECHNIQUES I (EFT I) SAN JOSE, CA – FEB 6, 2017STAFFORD, UK – FEB 20, 2017LARGO, FL – MAY

The Ugly Side of Two-Factor Authentication

by ElcomSoft Two-factor authentication is great when it comes to securing access to someone’s account. It’s not so great when it gets in the way of accessing your account. However, in emergency situations things can turn completely ugly. In this

Nuix Released Version 7.2 Of Its Patented Processing Engine

Nuix 7.2 Conquers Search Speed and Scale, Streamlines Workflows for Discovery and Investigation, and Adds More Cloud and Mobile Data. Nuix 7.2 delivers real benefits you can use today while building a platform for the future. Learn more here.Global technology

BlackBag’s BlackLight 2016 R3 is Now Available!

BlackBag Technologies is pleased to announce the third major release of BlackLight for 2016. This comprehensive Windows, Android, iPhone/iPad and Mac forensic analysis software just keeps getting better. Update your software now! BlackLight 2016 R3 implements several new features and