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29th October 2026

Preparing Digital Multimedia Evidence For Court: What To Consider Before Presentation
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Effective courtroom presentation starts with careful preparation - discover how Amped Replay helps forensic professionals prepare clear, accurate and properly documented digital multimedia evidence for court....

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Explore Cellebrite’s Autumn 2026 Release: Discover What’s New

Explore Cellebrite’s Autumn 2026 Release: Discover What’s New

29th October 2026

Discover how the Cellebrite Autumn 2026 Release is transforming digital investigations with faster access to evidence, AI-powered insights and seamless collaboration....read more

Agentic AI For Digital Investigations: Matt Goeckel Introduces Cellebrite Genesis

Agentic AI For Digital Investigations: Matt Goeckel Introduces Cellebrite Genesis

27th October 2026

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....read more

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

Computer investigator pleads guilty to misrepresenting credentials

A Rye private investigator who has received $23,000 from the state since 2006 to do computer forensic investigations for indigent defendants pleaded guilty last week to misrepresenting some of her investigative certifications on her company’s website. Judith Gosselin, owner and

Operation Endeavour: The Tip of the Iceberg?

In mid January 2014, reports began emerging of a cybersex ring that had recently been under investigation in the Philippines. Crime agencies across the UK, USA, Australia and the Philippines themselves have been working together since 2012 on a case

Operation Endeavour: The Tip of the Iceberg?

In mid January 2014, reports began emerging of a cybersex ring that had recently been under investigation in the Philippines. Crime agencies across the UK, USA, Australia and the Philippines themselves have been working together since 2012 on a case

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums.Is there a piece of software that will load an FTK filelist CSV and display it as a tree? Forum members discuss the difficulties with playing or converting .stream

US National Computer Forensics Institute provides training for cops

Ever since the news of the massive data breach of Target Corporation, people across the country have been watching the details unfurl. Consumers want to know if their accounts are affected, IT and security professionals are waiting to learn precisely

Oxygen Forensic Suite 2014 6.0 Targets Gang Crime with Evidence Cross-Analysis

Oxygen Forensics releases a major update to its flagship mobile evidence discovery solution, Oxygen Forensic Suite 2014, implementing advanced cross-analysis of evidence collected from multiple mobile devices. Version 6.0 implements new visualization options to chart all connections and communications between

DigitalFIRE Mutual Legal Assistance Study

Please help DigitalFIRE Labs understand the current state of Mutual Legal Assistance Requests relating to digital evidence, and be entered for a chance to win a FIREBrick write-blocker or an Amazon gift card. The survey on Mutual Legal Assistance Requests

Passware Enhances FileVault2 Decryption, 2x faster GPU Performance

Mac FileVault2 passwords now recoverable at a high speed, in addition to Passware’s previously announced live memory analysis solution. Passware, Inc., a provider of password recovery, decryption, and electronic evidence discovery software for computer forensics, law enforcement organizations, government agencies,

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

What is the future of digital forensics? Chime in on the forum. Forum member joakims has provided an open-source example of how data can be hidden within NTFS system files. Interpreting shellbags using TZWorks can yield confusing results. Bypassing Android

Is Your Computer Forensics Investigation A Symphony Or A Circus?

Digital forensics is changing, and you should be prepared for more of it in the future, not less. The increase of cloud computing has, in some ways, reduced the instances of hard drive analyses, but the explosion in mobile devices