3rd September 2026

“The Skills And Resilience To Do One Of The Hardest Jobs In Policing” — Why This DFIR Recruitment Language Gets The Evidence Wrong
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Does recruiting for “resilience” risk putting responsibility in the wrong place? Paul Gullon-Scott looks at what the evidence says about digital forensic well-being, workload and organisational support, and why the language we use matters....

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Forensic Focus Digest, September 04 2026

Forensic Focus Digest, September 04 2026

4th September 2026

Discover what’s new on Forensic Focus – explore practical ways to tackle forensic backlogs with Atola Technology, learn best practices for AI-assisted investigations with Cellebrite, and more....read more

Belkasoft Named A Major Player In The IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Digital Forensics Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment

Belkasoft Named A Major Player In The IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Digital Forensics Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment

3rd September 2026

Belkasoft has been named a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Digital Forensics Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment - a milestone that reflects the maturity of Belkasoft X and the company's continued innovation in AI-powered digital forensics....read more

Cellebrite Genesis: Turn Digital Evidence Into Actionable Leads In Minutes

Cellebrite Genesis: Turn Digital Evidence Into Actionable Leads In Minutes

3rd September 2026

See how Cellebrite Genesis uses agentic AI to help enterprise investigative teams cut through complex digital evidence, uncover connections, and move from data to actionable leads in minutes....read more

Extracting data from damaged mobile devices

by Igor Mikhaylov For the last few years we have successfully extracted data from various mobile device, such as cell phones, smartphones, tablets, etc. Among devices to be examined, we came across defective mobile devices (damaged mechanically, by fire or

Interview with Kathryn Seigfried-Spellar, University of Alabama

Your research focuses on the relationship between personality and deviant computer use. How did you become interested in this as a topic? This question is always the first thing people ask me – It’s as if they want to know,

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums IOS forensic acquisition tool Waterboard is causing controversy, both for its name and its claims of acquiring cellular data. A BBC article about the “chaotic forensic landscape” provokes

iOS Artifacts – See What You Might Be Missing!

Lance Mueller of Magnet Forensics earlier posted an article on iOS forensics detailing common steps and details of an examination of an iOS device, and how IEF can be used once you have that physical image or file system dump.

BlackBag Technologies: BlackLight(R) 2013 R2 Software Release

BlackBag Technologies, Inc., a leading developer of forensics software and training solutions, today announced the immediate availability of BlackLight 2013 R2, a comprehensive iPhone, iPad, Mac OS X, and Windows forensic analysis tool. This latest release includes improved data search

Interview with Dr Kamil Reddy, Independent Consultant, South Africa

Kamil, you’re currently an independent consultant in digital forensics – can you tell us more about your work and how you first became interested in the field? My independent consulting has, to date, been predominantly in the fields of information

Convert X-Ways TSV data into TLN data for IEF Timeline

Jad Saliba, Founder & CTO of Magnet Forensics, writes: We’re pleased to announce a new free tool and a guest blog post from James Morris of the Queensland Police Service in Australia. James came to me with a request to

Dr Kamil Reddy, Independent Consultant, South Africa

Kamil, you’re currently an independent consultant in digital forensics – can you tell us more about your work and how you first became interested in the field? My independent consulting has, to date, been predominantly in the fields of information

Forensic Explorer fast shadow copy access added

Australian software company GetData Forensics adds Volume Shadow Copy analysis to Forensic Explorer. “Volume Shadow Copies are a potential gold mine for the forensic investigator” said GetData Managing Director John Hunter. “Until recent times they have often been overlooked due

Investigating iOS Phone Images, File Dumps and Backups

As of January 2013, Apple announced it had sold over 500 million iOS devices. While iOS seems to be the leading operating system for tablets worldwide, Android continues to be the leading operating system for mobile phones worldwide. Regardless of

Interview with Jim Grady, President, Cellebrite USA

Jim, please tell us a bit about yourself and your background before joining Cellebrite. I´ve been involved in the wireless industry as an executive for over 20 years, both on the carrier side and the vendor side. Prior to Cellebrite,

UK ‘losing fight’ against internet crime, warn MPs

The UK must do more to stop online fraud and deter state-sponsored cyber-espionage or risk losing the fight against e-crime, MPs have warned. The Home Affairs Select Committee said much low-level internet-based financial crime was falling into a “black hole”

Jim Grady, President, Cellebrite USA

Jim, please tell us a bit about yourself and your background before joining Cellebrite. I´ve been involved in the wireless industry as an executive for over 20 years, both on the carrier side and the vendor side. Prior to Cellebrite,