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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

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Is there an MFT equivalent for EXT or HFS filesystems? Forum members discuss how to get started with Snapchat forensics. Which is the best programming language to learn

Forensic Analysis of SQLite Databases

SQLite is a widely popular database format that is used extensively pretty much everywhere. Both iOS and Android employ SQLite as a storage format of choice, with built-in and third-party applications relying on SQLite to keep their data. A wide

Job Vacancy: Snr. Computer Forensic Analyst, Oxfordshire, UK

This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Computer Forensic Analyst / Digital Forensic Analyst to join our fantastic new Digital Forensics Team. The successful candidate will report to the Digital Forensics Manager, and will be responsible for managing and

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UK Home Office Report: eDiscovery in Digital Forensic Investigations

Nuix, a technology company that enables people to make fact-based decisions from unstructured data, welcomes the findings of the report ‘eDiscovery in Digital Forensic Investigations’ published by the United Kingdom Home Office. The report concludes that “Giving investigators rapid access

Acquiring Memory with Magnet RAM Capture

Recently, we released a new free tool that allows investigators to acquire the memory of a live PC. Customers using our IEF Triage module will already be familiar with this tool, as it’s used to acquire evidence from live systems.

Review: IEF Mobile Module

Reviewed by John J. Carney, Carney Forensics I am a digital forensics examiner who early in my career studied computer science and wrote code as a software developer and later in my career studied law and became a licensed attorney.

IEF Mobile Module

Reviewed by John J. Carney, Carney Forensics Introduction I am a digital forensics examiner who early in my career studied computer science and wrote code as a software developer and later in my career studied law and became a licensed

How Secure Is Your Password?

How many passwords does an average Joe or Jane have to remember? Obviously, it’s not just one or two. Security requirements vary among online services, accounts and applications, allowing (or disallowing) certain passwords. Seven years ago, Microsoft determined in a

Forensics and Bitcoin

This article does not attempt to provide a beginners guide to Bitcoin, nor an in-depth thesis on Bitcoin forensics. Rather, it will be an overview of the potential opportunities available to digital forensics and traditional investigators to obtain evidence in

Estonia President wants China and Russia to help fight cyber-crime

Speaking on the ‘Fighting Shadows’ panel at the Davos convention in Switzerland on Saturday,Toomas Hendrik Ilves joined senior figures from Kaspersky, Microsoft and the United Nations in calling for improved cyber-crime policing, laws and collaboration – whilst also calling into