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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: Guidance Software EnCase Training Computer Forensics I

During the first week of December 2014, Guidance Software ran a computer forensics training course at its Slough offices in the UK, with the aim of helping forensic practitioners to understand and use EnCase as part of their investigations. The

Guidance Software EnCase Training Computer Forensics I

Reviewed by Scar de Courcier, Forensic Focus During the first week of December 2014, Guidance Software ran a computer forensics training course at its Slough offices in the UK, with the aim of helping forensic practitioners to understand and use

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Forum members discuss how to recover data from a gas pump skimmer. Is it possible to recover data from an iPad that has been reset, without access to

Making a Difference, One Child at a Time

By Jad Saliba, Founder & CTO of Magnet Forensics It’s not an issue many like to talk about, or perhaps even know about. But child sex slavery is one of the fastest growing criminal enterprises in the world. A perverse

Computer Investigations using P2 Commander from Paraben Corporation

Presenter: Rob Schroader, Paraben Corporation Join the forum discussion here.View the webinar on YouTube here.Read a full transcript of the webinar here. Transcript Rob Schroader: Hello, and welcome to the Forensic Focus webinar Computer Investigations Using P2 Commander – From

Police, digital forensics and the case against encryption

Mark Stokes, head of digital and electronics forensics services at the Met Police, keynote speaker at the (ISC)² EMEA Congress in London on Tuesday, detailed the techniques and technologies used to forensically investigate criminals who, he says, are increasingly reliant

Recovering Live System Artifacts with IEF

The collection of volatile data has become an essential component of a forensic examiner’s processes. While traditional forensic practices have always focused around avoiding any modification of evidence in order to preserve the integrity of the data, this is no

Evidence extraction from an Android device using MPE+ dSOLO

Data Specialist Group has created a self-extraction kit that includes an SD card pre-loaded with AccessData’s MPE+ dSOLO Android collection capability. dSOLO gives the end user the ability to extract data onsite from any Android smart phone, utilizing just a

FTK 5.6 Software Release

AccessData’s Forensic Toolkit 5.6 software upgrade is now available. Improvements: – System Information tab allows you to view system information that contains detailed information about disk images in an easy to read format. – Entity Extraction processing options to identify

Analyzing Windows Phone Artifacts with IEF

New with Internet Evidence Finder (IEF) v6.5, Magnet Forensics has added support for a number of native and third-party apps for Windows Phone. Using JTAG and Chip-off techniques, forensics examiners can use IEF to recover call logs, SMS/MMS, emails, and

How NIST is helping law enforcement with digital forensics

“Digital forensics is at a time of crisis and a time of opportunity.” This remark from Eoghan Casey, lead cybersecurity engineer at the MITRE Corp., highlighted the overarching themes presented at the first day of the National Institute of Standards

Oxygen Forensics releases the new and free Oxygen Forensic Viewer

Oxygen Forensics releases Oxygen Forensic Viewer, a stand-alone tool for viewing and sharing information collected with Oxygen Forensic Suite. Fast, easy and lightweight, Oxygen Forensic Viewer allows accessing the complete set of evidence, analyzing deleted data, examining suspects’ communications and

Webinar: Investigating Sexual Crimes in the Tinder Age

Date/Time: Tuesday December 16th, 2014 @ 10:00 am EST (3pm GMT) The usage of location-based mobile dating applications like Tinder and Grindr has exploded over the last year. This new class of mobile app allows singles to identify, chat with,

IIF – an evidence extraction model for investigation

This framework was first introduced in DFRWS EU 2014 (the first DFRWS conference in Europe) at Amsterdam held in May and later presented at Hacks in Taiwan 2014 (HITCON) which is a high-tech security conference in Taiwan held in August.