20th August 2025

Wrapping Up The S21 Transcriber Spotlight Session – What We’ve Covered
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UPCOMING WEBINAR – Retail Under Siege: Fighting Back Against Ransomware With Next-Gen Forensics

UPCOMING WEBINAR – Retail Under Siege: Fighting Back Against Ransomware With Next-Gen Forensics

19th August 2025

Retailers face rising cyber threats—join Exterro's Sept 4 webinar to learn fast, modern forensic response strategies and protect your brand....read more

Digital Forensics Jobs Round-Up, August 18 2025

Digital Forensics Jobs Round-Up, August 18 2025

18th August 2025

Explore a selection of the latest DFIR employment opportunities in this week’s Forensic Focus jobs round-up....read more

Enterprise Turns To AI For Speed And Accuracy In DFIR

Enterprise Turns To AI For Speed And Accuracy In DFIR

14th August 2025

Magnet Forensics explores how AI is revolutionizing speed and accuracy in DFIR....read more

Computer Investigations using P2 Commander from Paraben Corporation

Presenter: Rob Schroader, Paraben Corporation Join the forum discussion here.View the webinar on YouTube here.Read a full transcript of the webinar here. Transcript Rob Schroader: Hello, and welcome to the Forensic Focus webinar Computer Investigations Using P2 Commander – From

Police, digital forensics and the case against encryption

Mark Stokes, head of digital and electronics forensics services at the Met Police, keynote speaker at the (ISC)² EMEA Congress in London on Tuesday, detailed the techniques and technologies used to forensically investigate criminals who, he says, are increasingly reliant

Recovering Live System Artifacts with IEF

The collection of volatile data has become an essential component of a forensic examiner’s processes. While traditional forensic practices have always focused around avoiding any modification of evidence in order to preserve the integrity of the data, this is no

Evidence extraction from an Android device using MPE+ dSOLO

Data Specialist Group has created a self-extraction kit that includes an SD card pre-loaded with AccessData’s MPE+ dSOLO Android collection capability. dSOLO gives the end user the ability to extract data onsite from any Android smart phone, utilizing just a

FTK 5.6 Software Release

AccessData’s Forensic Toolkit 5.6 software upgrade is now available. Improvements: – System Information tab allows you to view system information that contains detailed information about disk images in an easy to read format. – Entity Extraction processing options to identify

Analyzing Windows Phone Artifacts with IEF

New with Internet Evidence Finder (IEF) v6.5, Magnet Forensics has added support for a number of native and third-party apps for Windows Phone. Using JTAG and Chip-off techniques, forensics examiners can use IEF to recover call logs, SMS/MMS, emails, and

How NIST is helping law enforcement with digital forensics

“Digital forensics is at a time of crisis and a time of opportunity.” This remark from Eoghan Casey, lead cybersecurity engineer at the MITRE Corp., highlighted the overarching themes presented at the first day of the National Institute of Standards

Oxygen Forensics releases the new and free Oxygen Forensic Viewer

Oxygen Forensics releases Oxygen Forensic Viewer, a stand-alone tool for viewing and sharing information collected with Oxygen Forensic Suite. Fast, easy and lightweight, Oxygen Forensic Viewer allows accessing the complete set of evidence, analyzing deleted data, examining suspects’ communications and

Webinar: Investigating Sexual Crimes in the Tinder Age

Date/Time: Tuesday December 16th, 2014 @ 10:00 am EST (3pm GMT) The usage of location-based mobile dating applications like Tinder and Grindr has exploded over the last year. This new class of mobile app allows singles to identify, chat with,

IIF – an evidence extraction model for investigation

This framework was first introduced in DFRWS EU 2014 (the first DFRWS conference in Europe) at Amsterdam held in May and later presented at Hacks in Taiwan 2014 (HITCON) which is a high-tech security conference in Taiwan held in August.

Magnet Forensics IEF Essentials Training Review

On the 14th-17th of October 2014, Magnet Forensics ran its first remote training course on the essential knowledge required to properly use Internet Evidence Finder, Magnet’s flagship software solution. The course was set up with the aim of aiding digital

Magnet Forensics IEF Essentials Training

Reviewed by Scar de Courcier, Forensic Focus On the 14th-17th of October 2014, Magnet Forensics ran its first remote training course on the essential knowledge required to properly use Internet Evidence Finder, Magnet’s flagship software solution. The course was set

Rob Maddox, Director of Global Training, Magnet Forensics

Rob, please tell us about your role as Director of Global Training at Magnet Forensics. My role as the Director of Global Training for Magnet Forensics encompasses several unique yet interconnected responsibilities, which include training development and delivery; business development;

Rob Maddox, Director of Global Training, Magnet Forensics

Rob, please tell us about your role as Director of Global Training at Magnet Forensics. My role as the Director of Global Training for Magnet Forensics encompasses several unique yet interconnected responsibilities, which include training development and delivery; business development;

Magnet Forensics Releases Internet Evidence Finder v6.5

With the release of Internet Evidence Finder v6.5, Magnet Forensics adds support for Windows Phone, and introduces new triage features including live system artifact recovery capabilities. IEF is already capable of recovering evidence from native and third-party mobile applications found