3rd September 2026

“The Skills And Resilience To Do One Of The Hardest Jobs In Policing” — Why This DFIR Recruitment Language Gets The Evidence Wrong
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Does recruiting for “resilience” risk putting responsibility in the wrong place? Paul Gullon-Scott looks at what the evidence says about digital forensic well-being, workload and organisational support, and why the language we use matters....

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Forensic Focus Digest, September 04 2026

Forensic Focus Digest, September 04 2026

4th September 2026

Discover what’s new on Forensic Focus – explore practical ways to tackle forensic backlogs with Atola Technology, learn best practices for AI-assisted investigations with Cellebrite, and more....read more

Belkasoft Named A Major Player In The IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Digital Forensics Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment

Belkasoft Named A Major Player In The IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Digital Forensics Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment

3rd September 2026

Belkasoft has been named a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Digital Forensics Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment - a milestone that reflects the maturity of Belkasoft X and the company's continued innovation in AI-powered digital forensics....read more

Cellebrite Genesis: Turn Digital Evidence Into Actionable Leads In Minutes

Cellebrite Genesis: Turn Digital Evidence Into Actionable Leads In Minutes

3rd September 2026

See how Cellebrite Genesis uses agentic AI to help enterprise investigative teams cut through complex digital evidence, uncover connections, and move from data to actionable leads in minutes....read more

Digital Forensics Poses Challenges for Texas Law Enforcement

At the South Austin, Texas, home of George De La Cruz, a one-story house with baby blue trim and a concrete porch lined with potted plants, investigators found no body. No physical proof Julie Ann Gonzalez was killed. Prosecutors took

New features in ReclaiMe Pro

ReclaiMe Data Recovery Company announced that they added some forensic features to their ReclaiMe Pro software. The new features, added to better serve digital investigators’ needs, include • file traces, • calculating file hashes and searching by hashes,• file content

SYN-CON Promises to be a Training Event Like No Other

Digital forensic examiners are confronted by many challenges today. More people are using the Cloud as a conduit for criminal activity and the countdown is on for the release of the Microsoft Windows 10 operating system. Examiners must be ready

Review – Learning iOS Forensics

Learning iOS Forensics is a practical textbook that aims to help digital forensics examiners of all levels to get to grips with the procedures involved in forensically analysing iOS devices. The book opens with a preface, which describes how the

Learning iOS Forensics

Reviewed by Scar de Courcier, Forensic Focus Learning iOS Forensics is a practical textbook that aims to help digital forensics examiners of all levels to get to grips with the procedures involved in forensically analysing iOS devices. The book opens

Analyzing Evidence From Mobile Devices, Including Hidden and Deleted Data

Presenter: Tatiana Pankova, Marketing Manager, Oxygen Forensics Join the forum discussion here.View the webinar on YouTube here.Read a full transcript of the webinar here. Transcript Tanya Pankova: Hello everybody. Welcome to Oxygen Forensics webinar. My name is Tanya, and I’m

Building and Improving Magnet ACQUIRE

A month ago, Magnet Forensics launched the Magnet ACQUIRE beta program and welcomed customers to download and try the new smartphone acquisition tool. The early feedback from the community has been positive. Many users have shared success stories detailing how

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. What would you do in a case involving IIOC embedded within a game? How would you load and analyse a partially-acquired image? Forum members debate the usefulness of

Dutch Develop Computer Forensics App For Botnet Investigations

The Netherlands Forensic Institute is working on a Linux-based forensic operating system that will enable the police to secure and remotely analyze evidence related to botnets, project leader Ruud Schramp told Security.NL. Securing and analyzing digital evidence related to botnets

White House Weighs Sanctions After Second Breach of a Computer System

The White House on Friday revealed that hackers had breached a second computer system at the Office of Personnel Management, and said that President Obama was considering financial sanctions against the attackers who gained access to the files of millions

Webinar: UFED Cloud Analyzer – Unlock actionable intelligence from cloud data

Date: Tuesday June 16, 2015 Registration: http://go.cellebrite.com/cloud_web_jun2015_reg Presenter: Shahaf Rozanski, Senior Forensics Product Manager, Cellebrite With 58% of people using their mobile device to access social media, a wealth of personal information is uploaded onto these social networks that provides

Researchers Extract Personal Data From Smartwatches

Researchers at the University of New Haven have shown that they can extract personal information from the LG G Watch and from the Samsung Gear 2 Neo. Specifically, they retrieved calendar, contacts and pedometer data from the G Watch, along

US Brings Case Against Alleged Cyber-Espionage Perpetrators

On a wall facing dozens of cubicles at the FBI office in Pittsburgh, five guys from Shanghai stare from “Wanted” posters. Wang Dong, Sun Kailiang, Wen Xinyu, Huang Zhenyu, and Gu Chunhui are, according to a federal indictment unsealed last

International Operation Dismantles Criminal Group of Cyber-Fraudsters

Yesterday, a joint international operation led to the dismantling of a group of cybercriminals active in Italy, Spain, Poland, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Georgia, who are suspected of committing financial fraud involving email account intrusions. The operation resulted in