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27th October 2026

Agentic AI For Digital Investigations: Matt Goeckel Introduces Cellebrite Genesis
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Cellebrite’s Matt Goeckel joins the Forensic Focus Podcast to talk about Genesis, an AI tool that lets investigators ask questions of their evidence, decode raw databases and stay within the scope of a warrant, while examiners stay in control....

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End-To-End Digital Investigations: From First Access To Final Verdict

End-To-End Digital Investigations: From First Access To Final Verdict

27th October 2026

Discover how Magnet Forensics’ integrated platform, from Graykey and Axiom to Automate, Review and Verify, helps agencies cut backlogs, collaborate in real time and build defensible cases from first access to final verdict....read more

Magnet Forensics Launches Magnet AI Research Lab To Provide Peer-Backed Evidence To The Community

Magnet Forensics Launches Magnet AI Research Lab To Provide Peer-Backed Evidence To The Community

27th October 2026

Can AI outperform human examiners in digital forensics? Magnet Forensics launches its AI Research Lab with a peer-reviewed study revealing compelling findings on the accuracy and reliability of AI-driven media authentication....read more

Genesis Momentum Powers Cellebrite’s Autumn Release: More Evidence, Deeper Insight, Broader Access For Investigations 

Genesis Momentum Powers Cellebrite’s Autumn Release: More Evidence, Deeper Insight, Broader Access For Investigations 

26th October 2026

Cellebrite’s Autumn 2026 Release introduces enhanced agentic AI-powered investigations with Genesis, expanded device access and new capabilities to help teams uncover critical evidence faster....read more

Review: Mobile Phone Examiner Plus (MPE+) – Part 2

Reviewed by Si Biles, Thinking Security One of the things that I love about being in IT is that it is an ever changing field. I find myself coming across new things daily. This even occasionally applies to my own

Electronic Voiceprints: The Crime Solving Power of Biometric Forensics

By Jared Stern Fingerprinting has been used for years to determine the individuality of a person. But, newer technology allows investigators to capture a person’s voice, a so-called “voiceprint.” Sometimes, a person’s voice is the only clue that police and

International Police Operation Targets Polymorphic Beebone Botnet

On 8 April, Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) and the Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT), joined forces with the Dutch authorities and the FBI, and U.S-based representatives at the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force- International Cyber Crime Coordination Cell

Electronic Voiceprints: The Crime Solving Power of Biometric Forensics

By Jared Stern Fingerprinting has been used for years to determine the individuality of a person. But, newer technology allows investigators to capture a person’s voice, a so-called “voiceprint.” Sometimes, a person’s voice is the only clue that police and

Interview with Martin Harran, Developer, Visual JPEG

Martin, you've been demonstrating Visual JPEG at DFRWS. Could you tell us about the concept behind it, and how you came up with the idea? It’s a tool to make life easier for people examining files. The background of this

Martin Harran, Developer, Visual JPEG

Martin, you've been demonstrating Visual JPEG at DFRWS. Could you tell us about the concept behind it, and how you came up with the idea? It’s a tool to make life easier for people examining files. The background of this

DFRWS Europe 2015 Annual Conference – Recap

This article is a recap of some of the main highlights of the Digital Forensics Research Workshop (DFRWS) held in Dublin from the 23rd – 26th of March 2015. Over the next few weeks Forensic Focus will also be bringing

DFRWS Europe 2015 Annual Conference – Recap

This article is a recap of some of the main highlights of the Digital Forensics Research Workshop (DFRWS) held in Dublin from the 23rd – 26th of March 2015. Over the next few weeks Forensic Focus will also be bringing

Oxygen Forensic Suite 7.2 Adds WhatsApp Voice Calls Analysis

Oxygen Forensics releases a major update to its flagship mobile forensic solution, Oxygen Forensic® Suite. New version introduces industry-first analysis of WhatsApp voice calls parsing, recovers deleted entries directly in each application section, displays messages in convenient conversion view, imports

Mobile Phone Examiner Plus (MPE+) – Part 2

Reviewed by Si Biles, Thinking Security One of the things that I love about being in IT is that it is an ever changing field. I find myself coming across new things daily. This even occasionally applies to my own

Webinar: Being Your Own Expert Witness

A recording of the recent (ISC)2 webinar “Being Your Own Expert Witness” is now online here. With data breaches and data leakage incidents becoming front page news, cyber investigations are taking on more importance within organizations. This calls for a

Being Your Own Expert Witness

Presenters: Brandon Dunlap, Global CISO at Black & Veatch and Managing Director – Research at Brightfly, Inc.; Herbert Joe, Certified Forensics Consultant, Yonovitz & Joe, LLP; Andrew Neal, TransPerfect Join the forum discussion here.View the webinar on YouTube here.Read a

ReclaiMe Pro – data recovery toolkit for experts

ReclaiMe Data Recovery Company was founded in 2009 in Russia, Volgograd. The company’s first product was ReclaiMe File Recovery software, made as simple as possible. Then the company released ReclaiMe Free RAID recovery software to recover RAID configurations. The next

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