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

Lindy Sheppard, F3 (First Forensic Forum) Secretary

Lindy, can you tell us a bit about your background and how you entered the world of forensic computing? My vital statistics are: divorced, two children (son and daughter – in that order), one grandson and three granddaughters (not in

Windows 8 Forensics – A First Look

Presenter: Josh Brunty, Assistant Professor of Digital Forensics, Marshall University Join the forum discussion here.View the webinar on YouTube here.Read a full transcript of the webinar here. Transcript Jamie: Welcome, everyone, to this latest Forensic Focus webinar! As always, my

Hague issues warning about global cybercrime danger

It has never been easier to become a cybercriminal, Foreign Secretary William Hague is to warn an international conference in Budapest. He will tell delegates that cybercrime is “one of the greatest global and strategic challenges of our time.” The

5 Steps to Ensure Your Cloud Provider Is Ready for Ediscovery

Identifying, retrieving, and producing electronically stored information (ESI) in response to a subpoena can be a time-consuming and costly business. Processing just one gigabyte of data in response to an electronic discovery (ediscovery) request can cost at least $30,000, according

Cyber forensics to the fore

The goal of computer forensics is to examine digital media in a forensically sound manner with the aim of identifying, preserving, recovering, analysing and presenting facts and opinions about the information. Most often associated with the investigation of a wide

Fighting crime in the computer age

Technology is changing at a dizzying pace, and law enforcement officers are having trouble keeping up. New smartphones are being released constantly. Tablets like the iPad are replacing laptop computers. Almost everybody – including those who break the law –

XRY v6.3.2 released

Micro Systemation just released XRY v6.3.2 This version includes: – The ability to bypass a complex passcode on some iOS devices– Full support for the new Apple operating system iOS6– A new RAM disk extraction method for iOS devices– Logical

Philip Anderson, Northumbria University

Philip, can you tell us something about your background and why you decided to teach digital forensics? I graduated from Northumbria University with a BSc (Hons) in Business Information Technology in 1997 and gained an MSc in Distance Education with

Android Forensics

Smartphones are changing the IT and Communication landscape vastly.  A Smartphone can do almost every good thing a computer can do. Today most of the corporate employee access and manage their official emails through the e-mail client installed on their

Collecting and Processing Bloomberg Data

A few years ago, Bloomberg data may have been relatively unusual, however today we see Bloomberg chat and email data being collected quite frequently. Not a surprise really considering some of the headlines relating to certain Banks and Financial institutions