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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

Finding and Analyzing Windows System Artifacts with IEF

New with the Business and OS artifacts module in Internet Evidence Finder (IEF) v6.4, Magnet Forensics has added a number of valuable Windows operating system artifacts that will help investigators gain insight into details about a system and its users.

Oxygen Forensic Suite 2014 Adds New Acquisition Methods for Android Devices

Oxygen Forensics has updated its flagship mobile evidence discovery solution, Oxygen Forensic Suite 2014, adding physical acquisition support for MTK-based Android devices and introducing dual-joint logical acquisition support for all Android devices. The new release greatly simplifies the acquisition of

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Forum members discuss Chromebook forensics. How is computer forensics affected by the UTC+14 timezone? How can a forensic examiner identify whether Skype messages were sent from a desktop

Magnet Forensics Releases Internet Evidence Finder v6.4

With the release of IEF v6.4, Magnet Forensics adds to its list of Internet and mobile-supported artifacts, and introduces a new Business Applications and OS Artifacts Module to enable the recovery of more evidence with an IEF search. The Business

Anti-paedophile police fight child porn ‘epidemic’

The internet trade in images that show child sex abuse is now “an epidemic”, according to the head of the global initiative to combat the problem. Police officers from around the world serve on the Virtual Global Taskforce. Its chairman,

Webinar: Investigating Child Exploitation Cases with IEF

A recording of last month’s webinar "Investigating Child Exploitation Cases – Getting to Critical Internet Evidence Faster with IEF" presented by Jad Saliba and Jamie McQuaid of Magnet Forensics is now online. View the webinar and read a full transcript

Interview with Martino Jerian, Founder and CEO, Amped Software

Martino, please tell us about your role as the Founder & CEO at Amped Software, and what led you to found the company. Amped Software was derived from my master thesis of Electronic Engineering at the University of Trieste, Italy,

Coming apart at the SIEMs …

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)1 systems are all the rage at the moment – and with good cause. As you are all aware, one item of data2 does not a case make, it is the combination & correlation between

Nina van der Knaap, PhD Student (eLaw), Leiden University

Nina, you’re currently doing a PhD in eLaw and teaching at the Cyber Security Academy (Cyber Forensics & Cybercrime and Law Enforcement). Could you tell us how you became interested in this area? I am a forensic criminologist and I

Martino Jerian, Founder and CEO, Amped Software

Martino, please tell us about your role as the Founder & CEO at Amped Software, and what led you to found the company. Amped Software was derived from my master thesis of Electronic Engineering at the University of Trieste, Italy,

Mac Memory Forensics – WeChat Analysis in a live system

Rapid growth of the usage of OS X has inspired forensic researchers to analyze devices such as the iPad, iPhone and Mac deeply. Therefore, OS X forensics, starting from Jonathan Zdziarski in 2008, became a very hot topic. However, most

X-Ways X-Tension for C4All users (forum topic)

C4All is a program used by law enforcement and others to categorize pictures and videos. This X-Tension is for Users of C4All. The guides that are included describe how to best use the X-Tension with the Strategy hash sets ,

Town receives device to help track online child predators

The Town of Rocky Mount Police Department was presented with a “Cop in a Box” at the Altavista Moose Family Center in Altavista on Wednesday last week. The “Cop in a Box” laptop computer includes a U.S. Department of Justice-certified

Making it easy or hard: Computer forensics expert testimony

Every time I am preparing for testimony at deposition or trial, I ask the attorney I am working for whether I should make it “easy” or “hard.” Even very experienced attorneys examining a technical witness often ask the wrong question.

Computer Forensics & Mobile Forensic Analysis Combined in P2 Commander

Paraben Corporation has announced the release of P2 Commander v3.6. This new version adds the ability to analyze mobile device data acquired using Device Seizure into this comprehensive forensic analysis tool. Also added to this version is support for Outlook