12th August 2025

Well-Being In Digital Forensics And Policing: Insights From Hannah Bailey
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Hannah Bailey shares her journey from frontline policing to founding Blue Light Wellbeing, explaining why culturally-aware mental health support is crucial for DFIs and frontline workers....

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Oxygen Tech Bytes In July 2025

Oxygen Tech Bytes In July 2025

12th August 2025

Level up your DFIR skills in under 20 minutes with Oxygen Tech Bytes’ expert-led, on-demand webinars....read more

Neal Ysart, Co-Founder, The Coalition Of Cyber Investigators

Neal Ysart, Co-Founder, The Coalition Of Cyber Investigators

11th August 2025

Neal Ysart shares how The Coalition of Cyber Investigators tackles OSINT integrity, complex investment fraud, and the rise of AI-driven scams....read more

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

Interview with Jess Garcia, founder of One eSecurity

Let's say we're looking at a cyber-crime scene comprised of several still powered on computers as well as confiscated smartphones. When the forensic investigator arrives, what does his workflow look like? Mobile devices are typically the most volatile of all

Forensic Examination of FrostWire version 5

Introduction As digital forensic practitioners, we are faced regularly  with users utilizing the internet to swop and download copyrighted and contraband material. Peer to peer (P2P) applications are commonly used for this purpose, and like any software application, they is

Firefox Forensics

I was showing someone a trick to export Firefox SQLite tables to a spread sheet, and while she is a forensics person, she had never ever heard of this trick. It is neat enough to know when working off an

Retrieving Digital Evidence: Methods, Techniques and Issues

This article describes the various types of digital forensic evidence available on users’ PC and laptop computers, and discusses methods of retrieving such evidence. A recent research conducted by Berkeley scientists concluded that up to 93% of all information never

Authenticating Internet Web Pages as Evidence: a New Approach

By John Patzakis [1] and Brent Botta [2] Previously, in Forensic Focus, we addressed the issue of evidentiary authentication of social media data (see previous entries here and here). General Internet site data available through standard web browsing, instead of

Parallels hard drive image converting for analysis

The other day, talking to one of the analysts in Dallas, a question emerged about analyzing Parallels’ virtual machine hard drives. To my surprise, I did not find many help on this issue on-line and did not find tools that

Retrieving Digital Evidence: Methods, Techniques and Issues

by Yuri Gubanov yug@belkasoft.com Belkasoft Ltd. http://belkasoft.com Abstract This article describes the various types of digital forensic evidence available on users’ PC and laptop computers, and discusses methods of retrieving such evidence. Download article in PDF format Introduction A recent 

A Quick Look at Exchange Forensics

A growing number of enterprises—and their IT staffs—are becoming increasingly concerned about the range of threats posed by electronic attack. Couple that with the high incidence of business litigation, and the high regulatory barriers, present in the US and EU,

Computer crime given low priority by Irish firms

Irish firms are failing to treat the threat of computer crime as seriously as they should, a new survey has revealed, with a lack of funding in information security and insufficient employee awareness of threats identified. According to the survey

Belkasoft releases Evidence Center v4.1 featuring deeper EnCase integration

Belkasoft releases Belkasoft Evidence Center 2012 version 4.1 featuring deeper EnCase v7 integration and more than 210 supported artifact types. The company’s flagship forensic tool, Belkasoft Evidence Center, now supports new EnCase v7 EX01 evidence files as well as E01,

Interview with John H. Riley, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

John, can you tell us something about your background and why you decided to teach digital forensics? First, thanks for the opportunity to discuss our program. We’re really proud of what we’ve accomplished here and believe we’re contributing to the