18th August 2025

Digital Forensics Jobs Round-Up, August 18 2025
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Explore a selection of the latest DFIR employment opportunities in this week’s Forensic Focus jobs round-up....

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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

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 13 2025

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 13 2025

13th August 2025

Read the latest DFIR news – evidence of Kohberger’s detailed murder preparations, an alarming rise in child sextortion cases, Brian Carrier’s new mini-course on automation and AI in forensics, and more....read more

Next-Generation Incident Response (video interview)

Recent breaches tell the story: Organizations are not entirely prepared to respond to such incidents. In this video interview recorded on the expo floor of RSA 2014, Craig Carpenter of AccessData discusses the next generation of incident response, specifically: •

EnCase Forensic 7.09: iOS Investigations Out of the Box

Most investigators are familiar with the capabilities of EnCase® Forensic as a tool for investigation of desktops, servers, and hard drives, but did you know that ever since EnCase Forensic v7 was introduced, it has provided support for smartphone operating

AccessData InSight™ Platform Accelerates the Speed of Incident Resolution

AccessData, the leader in incident resolution solutions, today announced the InSight™ Platform, a revolutionary cybersecurity system enabling enterprises to adeptly manage the rapidly accelerating volume of data incidents caused by cyber-attacks, mobile risk, GRC (Governance Risk & Compliance) and eDiscovery

Yahoo webcam images from millions of users intercepted by GCHQ

Britain’s surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the US National Security Agency, intercepted and stored the webcam images of millions of internet users not suspected of wrongdoing, secret documents reveal. GCHQ files dating between 2008 and 2010 explicitly state that

Five Recommended Digital Forensics Blogs

At Forensic Focus, we like to take a look at all the digital forensics news that’s being shared on blogs and websites around the world. We frequently come across sites we’d like to recommend as excellent reads for anyone involved

CTIN Digital Forensic Conference March 24-26, 2014

CTIN14 – Computer Technology Investigators Network is having another Digital Forensics and CyberSecurity conference March 24-26, 2014 www.ctinconference.org : $350 for 3 days of training and education in digital forensics. Speakers include experts and published authors in the field of

Webinar: 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

Central Ga. college opens digital forensics lab

Last year, Middle Georgia State College digital forensics students toured the GBI forensics laboratory in Atlanta. And now the college has opened a state-of-the-art laboratory of its own. The college is planning to launch a concentration in digital forensics for

IEF v6.3 now supports native shadow copy mounting and analysis

Since becoming available in Windows Vista, volume shadow copies have been a valuable resource for forensic investigators when examining a Windows PC. Volume shadow copy runs as a service (volume shadow service) that creates and maintains multiple historical snapshots of

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Forum members explain live RAM capturing tools and why they are relevant to forensic investigations. What is the best method of contemporaneous note-taking during investigations? A discussion about

Oxygen Forensic Suite 2014 Breaks into BlackBerry 10 Backups

Oxygen Forensics has updated its flagship mobile evidence discovery solution, Oxygen Forensic Suite 2014, adding forensic analysis support for BlackBerry 10 backups. The new release enables investigators to seamlessly process encrypted BlackBerry 10 backups, extract and analyze information contained in

Interview with Nigel McKelvey, Letterkenny Institute of Technology

Nigel, you’re currently a Lecturer in Computing at Letterkenny Institute of Technology. Could you tell us more about the role and what prompted you to enter academia? I was always interested in academia from a very early age – I

IEF v6.3 now offers Hashing, PhotoDNA and Project Vic support

One of the big focuses in Magnet Forensics‘ Internet Evidence Finder (IEF) v6.3 was adding hashing support for pictures and making it easy for investigators to import hash lists that can be used during searches to alert you of hash

Students from La. Tech score big in national digital forensics competition

Two teams of students from Louisiana Tech University’s College of Engineering and Science have placed in the top 10 of the 2013 Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3) Digital Forensics Challenge. James Poore, Nathan Wallace and Stanislav Ponomarev comprised