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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

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

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