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

Final 2014 Nuix Investigations Training Classes – UK & East Coast US Dates

Whether you’re new to Nuix software or you’re a power user, Nuix offers training paths to maximize your skillset and keep you up-to-date with the latest workflows and technologies. By training and getting certified in Nuix Investigations software, you’re becoming

Dallas DA’s New Digital Forensics Lab Could Cause Conflicts of Interest

Ahead of his election day disaster, District Attorney Craig Watkins announced the creation of a new division in his office. He’s done this before, most recently with the Civil Rights Division, a team that will investigate, right alongside Internal Affairs,

How to Use IEF and Cellebrite to Investigate Android Devices

Mobile devices contain a wealth of valuable information, but the challenge is knowing how to retrieve the data. Investigators seem to have image acquisition covered with tools like Cellebrite’s UFED, but want to know how to pull more evidence from

Job Vacancy: Head of eDiscovery Project Management, London

Title – Head of eDiscovery Project Management TeamLocation – LondonSalary – Fully negotiable (Circa £80,000 +or-) Overview:To be the leader and manager of our clients team of eDiscovery project managers. The role will ensure the team performs to the highest

UK FSR Digital forensics method validation: draft guidance

"The UK Forensic Science Regulator has issued the linked document for consultation. https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/digital-forensics-method-validation-draft-guidance For UK practitioners, big or small, the implications are considerable. If you don't agree with what is proposed you need to respond by the end the month.

Improving Your Mobile Forensics Workflow

Finding and analyzing evidence found on mobile devices may be the most important skill today’s digital forensics examiner can possess. Mobile devices have engrained themselves into our personal and professional lives. As a result, mobile devices (and the applications they

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Is it legal to travel to China with full disk encryption on a laptop? Forum members discuss recovering deleted emails and OST/PST conversion. An OS HDD seems to

Cyber crime: First online murder will happen by end of year, warns US firm

Governments are ill-prepared to combat the looming threat of “online murder” as cyber criminals exploit internet technology to target victims, the European policing agency warned. In its most alarming assessment of the physical danger posed by online crime, Europol said

Inside the Homeland Security Investigations Computer Forensics Lab

Nearly every case Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) opens has some sort of digital evidence to be collected and analyzed. But the work can’t be done by just anyone. The data must be meticulously cared for by agents trained to preserve

Devices being remotely wiped in police custody

All the data on some of the tablets and phones seized as evidence is being wiped out, remotely, while they are in police custody, the BBC has learned. Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Durham police all told BBC News handsets had

Can You Get That License Plate?

We find ourselves analyzing new surveillance videos almost every day, and in most cases we can either solve the problem very quickly or understand (even quicker) that there is no information to recover in the video. In special cases though,

How to Recover Deleted Data with Oxygen Forensic SQLite Viewer

Oxygen Forensics has released a stand-alone Oxygen Forensic SQLite Viewer, enabling forensic experts to view and export information stored by system and third-party mobile applications. The tool enables access to deleted SQLite records, and lays out the content of SQLite