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

Android Forensics Study of Password and Pattern Lock Protection

Posted by Oxygen Software "Let’s see what Pattern Lock is, how to access, determine or even get rid of it? We’ll also speak about Password Lock Protection and find out what it has in common with Pattern Lock. And finally

Skype in eDiscovery

by Stuart Clarke, 7Safe "The EDRM (Electronic Discovery Reference Model) is a widely accepted workflow, which guides those involved in eDiscovery. Typically, the identification and collection phases see email and common office documents harvested, but as technology moves forward is

Forensic Toolkit v3 Tips and Tricks – On a budget

Posted by Brian K. Glass "While researching FTK 3X and Oracle, you just recently discovered that the best configuration of your Oracle database would be on a solid state drive (SSD). Solid state drives give the maximum level of performance

Anonymous, what does it mean?

Posted by forens245 "Anonymous, a word which Merriam-Webster describes as: of unknown authorship or origin, not named or identified, or lacking individuality, distinction, or recognizability. There are some in this world that wish to remain anonymous, not named or identified.

CCL-Forensics offers “dunk!” for cookie files

CCL-Forensics has developed “dunk!”, a software utility which parses cookie files, and presents the investigator with the data they contain. A free trial version of dunk! is available at www.ccl-forensics.com/dunk which gives complete functionality for a limited time. Thereafter licences

GCHQ to offer British firms expertise in cybercrime

Some of the secret technologies created at the government’s giant eavesdropping centre GCHQ are to be offered to private industry as part of new cyber security strategy being unveiled by ministers on Friday. The idea is likely to be one

French Gendarmerie Nationale chooses Cellebrite’s UFED

The French Gendarmerie Nationale has equipped its national N-TECH force with Cellebrite’s Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED) for its mobile forensic investigations. The Gendarmerie Nationale, in charge of public safety in France, is using the UFED to extract information from

Paraben Releases P2 Commander v2.0

Paraben is pleased to announce the release of P2 Commander v2.0. Here are some feature highlights: * New memory dump parser* Added support for Exchange 2010 (.EDB)* Added support for Chrome history, cookies, auto fill items, keywords, and login analysis*

Flasher Box Forensics training (UK) 17-19 Jan 2012

Control-F will be running another of its 3 day Flasher Box Forensics training courses on 17-19th January at Wyboston Lakes, Bedfordshire (UK). With only 4 places remaining – email info@controlf.net or phone +44(0)20 8133 8750 to secure a seat…This 3

Forensic Toolkit v3 Tips and Tricks ― Not on a Budget

A couple of weeks ago, Brian Glass posted a very helpful comment, Forensic Toolkit v3 Tips and Tricks — on a Budget.  His comment focused on how to “get close to SSD performance on the cheap” and he discussed the

iPhone Tracking – from a forensic point of view

– Introduction – iPhoneTracking is sexy!!! Every mobile forensic suite, at least the ones dealing with iPhones, are providing it proudly. iPhoneTracking also has been a hot topic in the media all around the globe. People stated, that there is

Android Forensics Study of Password and Pattern Lock Protection

Let’s see what Pattern Lock is, how to access, determine or even get rid of it? We’ll also speak about Password Lock Protection and find out what it has in common with Pattern Lock. And finally we’ll try to understand 

Mike’s Forensic Tools – Cookie Cutter

A simple app to decode the data held within Google Analytics Cookies. The data can be identified by “__UTM” starting each section. The data holds: records, the number of visits to a website, the first, last and current visit dates;

Publishing articles at Forensic Focus

Forensic Focus is always keen to publish articles, papers or blog posts of interest to the digital forensics community. Articles are published not only online but also included in the monthly newsletter (sent to over 12,00 subscribers) and promoted via

SC Suite v4.4 Released.

A new version of SC Suite is available, version 4.4 now includes more tools to analyse and extract information from a variety of file types and utilities to assist in every day tasks. Continuing user feedback has resulted in the