7th August 2025

The Balance Between Digital Forensic Examiners And Digital Evidence Technicians: Expertise Vs. Efficiency
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Can digital forensic labs cut backlogs without cutting corners? Debbie Garner explores how tiered workflows using both examiners and technicians can strike the right balance....

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Forensic Focus Digest, August 08 2025

Forensic Focus Digest, August 08 2025

8th August 2025

Discover what’s new on Forensic Focus – explore the balance between expertise and efficiency in digital forensics, tackle the challenges of multi-jurisdictional investigations, and learn how transforming organisational culture can improve mental health in the field....read more

More Than Software: Amped Training Teaches You The Science Of Forensic Video And Image Analysis

More Than Software: Amped Training Teaches You The Science Of Forensic Video And Image Analysis

7th August 2025

Push past button-clicking—Amped Software training teaches the science behind forensic video analysis....read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 06 2025

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 06 2025

6th August 2025

Read the latest DFIR news – starting a digital forensic business, Hashcat v7.0.0, GenAI incident response guidance, cross-border investigation challenges, and more....read more

Some Pitfalls of Interpreting Forensic Artifacts in the Windows Registry

Presenter: Jacky Fox, student at UCD School of Computer Science and Informatics Join the forum discussion here.View the webinar on YouTube here.Read a full transcript of the webinar here. Transcript Pavel Gladyshev: Welcome to University College Dublin. My name is

Commit a crime abroad? A Canadian firm may find you

Law enforcement technology is more than guns and cars, especially after the arrests are made. The global market for this technology is huge, especially for major police forces, such as London’s Metropolitan Police and the New York Police Department. Police

Forensic Analysis of Windows 7 Jump Lists

Forensic Analysis of Windows 7 Jump Lists Abstract The release of Microsoft Windows 7 introduced a new feature known as Jump Lists which present the user with links to recently accessed files grouped on a per application basis.  The records

Guidance Software Releases EnCase® Forensic v7.05

Guidance Software Inc. has announced the release of EnCase® Forensic version 7.05. This latest version of the industry-standard forensics software features key enhancements that enable investigators to work with data sets earlier and faster in order to both begin and

Webinar: Pitfalls of Interpreting Windows Registry Artifacts

In this webinar, Jacky Fox, student at UCD School of Computer Science and Informatics, presents the results of her dissertation on Windows Registry reporting – focusing on automating correlation and interpretation. After the webinar Jacky will be available in the

Marshall University and West Virginia State Police Receive Award

Marshall University and the West Virginia State Police have received a United States Attorney’s Award for Innovation in Justice for their collaborations on digital forensics, DNA testing and investigations. U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin presented the award to Marshall University President

Why SSD Drives Destroy Court Evidence, and What Can Be Done About It

by Yuri Gubanov yug@belkasoft.com, Oleg Afonin aoleg@voicecallcentral.com Belkasoft Ltd. http://belkasoft.com Abstract Solid State drives (SSD) introduced dramatic changes to the principles of computer forensics. Forensic acquisition of computers equipped with SSD storage is very different of how we used to

Registry Recon Provides Unprecedented Access to Windows Registry Data

Arsenal Recon – www.ArsenalRecon.com – makers of computer forensics solutions built by computer forensics experts, today announced the release of their flagship solution, Registry Recon. Registry Recon is a powerful computer forensics tool that aggressively searches for Microsoft Windows Registry

Phone texts don’t die: they hide

The computer forensics expert who recovered the text messages that brought down parliamentary Speaker Peter Slipper has warned that any messages or files you think you have deleted from your smartphone are still there if someone really wants to find

Dutch police should have more powers to hack into computers: minister

The police should be given greater powers to hack into private computers in their efforts to combat cyber crime, according to a concept briefing for parliament by justice minister Ivo Opstelten. In the briefing, obtained by website nu.nl, Opstelten writes

Gary McKinnon extradition to US blocked by Theresa May

British computer hacker Gary McKinnon will not be extradited to the US, Home Secretary Theresa May has announced. Mr McKinnon, 46, who admits accessing US government computers but claims he was looking for evidence of UFOs, has been fighting extradition

Encrypt it, but Don’t Trust It

This is not about acquisition tools, but about understanding why we need to test our tools even if the tool was just updated.  The latest and greatest tool without testing can be a risk factor just like the old and

CP assertion has suspect crying foul

The attorney for Mark Strong Sr. said Wednesday that he will seek sanctions against prosecutors if they cannot back up their assertion that evidence of child pornography was on a computer hard drive that police seized from Strong’s home. Daniel