19th August 2025

UPCOMING WEBINAR – Retail Under Siege: Fighting Back Against Ransomware With Next-Gen Forensics
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Retailers face rising cyber threats—join Exterro's Sept 4 webinar to learn fast, modern forensic response strategies and protect your brand....

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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

Breaking Digital Barriers: Galaxy S25 & Z Flip Fully Supported

Breaking Digital Barriers: Galaxy S25 & Z Flip Fully Supported

14th August 2025

Gain full filesystem access to the latest Samsung Galaxy devices with MD-NEXT....read more

HMIC report highlights concern over cybercrime plans

Three out of 43 police forces in England and Wales have a comprehensive plan to deal with a large-scale cyber-attack, a report has found. Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) warned only Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and West Midlands had sufficient plans

CSI IT: Forensic security skills for IT professionals

TV shows such as CSI have popularised the world of digital forensics, glamorising the field and piquing the interest of a generation of graduates and career-movers, writes Kevin Waugh. Because of this, it would be natural to assume that most

Real-Time Data Acquisition with Oxygen Forensic Extractor

Oxygen Forensics releases Oxygen Forensic Extractor enabling data acquisition from several thousand mobile devices. The new toolkit enables OEM manufacturers to build real-time data acquisition systems for law enforcement and forensic customers. The new toolkit implements Oxygen’s know-how on extracting

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Forum members discuss OSINT training and their experiences with the courses. Is it possible to extract a single video file from a cell phone? Chime in on the

Accelerating Investigations Using Advanced eDiscovery Techniques

Presenters: Paul Slater, Director of Forensic Solutions EMEA, Nuix and Ady Cassidy, Director of Investigation Solution Consultancy – Global, Nuix Join the forum discussion here.View the webinar on YouTube here.Read a full transcript of the webinar here. Transcript Paul Slater:

Michael Kohn, Computer Science Graduate, University of Pretoria

Michael, you’ve recently completed an MSc in Computer Science at the University of Pretoria. What made you choose this as a field of study? I have been interested in Information Technology and Law for quite some time. I know that

Armstrong and digital forensics: Right under our noses

Yesterday, the entire Chatham County Commission visited Armstrong Atlantic State University’s Cyber Forensics Labs, a unit in the campus police department. I too have had the opportunity to tour this unique facility as part of a broader introduction to the

Has the NSA’s mass spying made life easier for digital criminals?

Thousands of the world’s security professionals, mostly of them middle-aged white males, gathered in San Francisco last week for the annual RSA Conference. Traditionally, it’s the time of year vendors hawk their gear in halls containing a perturbing whiff of

Reminder: Accelerating Investigations Using Advanced eDiscovery Techniques

Join this free webinar from Nuix to find out how to deal with large volumes of electronic evidence while balancing business demands including reduced budgets and resources, spiralling case backlogs and ever decreasing timescales. Date: Thursday March 6, 2014Time: 4:00pm-5:00pm