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

Interview with Paul van Ramesdonk, Cape Town University

Paul, you're currently conducting research into continued professional development in digital forensics for your Master's degree. Could you outline your project for our readers? My area for the dissertation is to look at continued development, specifically with digital forensics practitioners,

Paul van Ramesdonk, Master’s Student, Cape Town University

Paul, you're currently conducting research into continued professional development in digital forensics for your Master's degree. Could you outline your project for our readers? My area for the dissertation is to look at continued development, specifically with digital forensics practitioners,

SQLite – Recovering deleted and partial records

In this article I want to discuss how we can recover deleted records from an SQLite database, or rather how we can recover all records and distinguish between those that are live in the DB and those that are found

Interview with Mattia Epifani, CEO, Reality Net

At DFRWS yesterday you gave a talk about Tor forensics on Windows. Could you briefly outline some of the main challenges associated with Tor forensics for our readers? I think that nowadays there are new challenges related to encryption, anonymity

Mattia Epifani, CEO, Reality Net

At DFRWS yesterday you gave a talk about Tor forensics on Windows. Could you briefly outline some of the main challenges associated with Tor forensics for our readers? I think that nowadays there are new challenges related to encryption, anonymity

Cyber-attacks hit British Airways, GitHub and Slack

British Airways’ air-miles accounts, the coding site GitHub and the work chat service Slack have all been hit in the latest wave of cyber-attacks. The firms have all notified their users of the incidents, which varied in approach and do

Interview with Arnim Eijkhoudt, Researcher & Lecturer, UAS

Arnim, we caught up with you last year about Uforia. Could you tell us a bit about what's been happening with the project since then? Well, what we had in Amsterdam was more of a proof of concept really, to

Passware Exposes Suspects’ Photo Stream to Computer Forensics

Passware, Inc., a provider of password recovery, decryption, and electronic evidence discovery software for computer forensics, law enforcement organizations, government agencies, and private investigators, announces version 2 of its flagship encrypted electronic evidence discovery product – Passware Kit Forensic 2015.

Interview with Nikola Radovanović, CEO, HddSurgery

Nikola, please tell us about HddSurgery. What first gave you the idea to develop tools for data recovery and computer forensics? I would not call it an idea, it was more a need for such tools. We have data recovery

Nikola Radovanović, CEO, HddSurgery

Nikola, please tell us about HddSurgery. What first gave you the idea to develop tools for data recovery and computer forensics? I would not call it an idea, it was more a need for such tools. We have data recovery

New AccessData UTK® Bundle

When it comes to incident response, the quick collection and triage of digital devices is crucial to identify where evidence may be contained. This expedites device processing and evidence identification to ultimately reduce case backlogs. AccessData’s Ultimate Toolkit® (UTK®) include

Webinar: Being Your Own Cybersecurity “Expert Witness”

Date: March 26, 2015Time: 1:00pm EST (US) / 5:00pm GMT (UK)Duration: 60-75 minutesPresenters: Spencer Wilcox, CISSP, Excelon; Herbert Joe, Certified Forensics Consultant, Yonovitz & Joe, LLP; Andrew Neal, TransPerfect With data breaches and data leakage incidents becoming front page news,

How to Use EnCase and IEF Together

When it comes to computer forensics, investigators often rely on a variety of tools to find the evidence they need. The real challenge is understanding how to use these tools together to make your investigations more efficient while still maximizing

Review: Mobile Phone Examiner Plus (MPE+) – Part 1

Reviewed by Si Biles, Thinking Security That mobile devices are going to be used in any criminal activity is almost a given now – although post Snowden, at least the more intelligent crook might give some pause to consider the