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

Reconnoitre – Link files, geolocation and C4P

Since Reconnoitre was released in January this year there have been a number of enhancements driven by requests from our users including link file support, EXIF and geolocation support, features to query C4P hash servers and advanced reporting. Of course

Geo-tagging and Photo Tracking on iOS

As you may already know, Apple has always been criticized for using their extremely popular devices to track users and use this information to expand their own databases. This tutorial assumes that you have already jailbroken your device and you

Geo-tagging & Photo Tracking On iOS

As you may already know, Apple has always been criticized for using their extremely popular devices to track users and use this information to expand their own databases. This tutorial assumes that you have already jailbroken your device and you know how to

KS – an open source bash script for indexing data

This is a keywords searching tool working on the allocated, unallocated data and the slackspace, using an indexer software and a database storage. Often during a computer forensics analysis we need to have all the keywords indexed into a database

Belkasoft Evidence Center 5.3: New Tool to Share Collected Evidence

Belkasoft announces a major update to its flagship forensic product, Belkasoft Evidence Center 2013. Version 5.3 introduces Evidence Reader, an all-new free tool allowing Belkasoft users to pass along evidence collected with the main product. Over 12 other enhancements are

KS – an open source bash script for indexing data

KS – an open source bash script for indexing data ABSTRACT:  This is a keywords searching tool working on the allocated, unallocated data and the slackspace, using an indexer software and a database storage . Often during a computer forensics

MPE+ Android Malware Detection webinar now online

A recorded version of Lee Reiber’s recent webinar “MPE+ Android Malware Detection” can now be viewed here. Please use this forum topic for discussion of the webinar and for asking Lee any questions, thank you.

Mobile Forensics: MPE+ Android Malware Detection

Presenter: Lee Reiber, Global Director of Mobile Forensics, AccessData Join the forum discussion here.View the webinar on YouTube here.Read a full transcript of the webinar here. Transcript Lee Reiber: Good morning! Or afternoon, or wherever you guys might be. I

IntaForensics Announces Lima Lite 20% Pre-Launch offer!

IntaForensics Announces Lima Lite entry level Forensic Case Management for £695.00 + local taxes (less 20% pre-launch offer) including support and all updates for 1 year. A leap forward for sole digital forensic practitioners, incident response, cyber security teams, small

Forensic Control Reviews Latest Version of Internet Evidence Finder (IEF)

Internet Evidence Finder (IEF), the industry-leading forensic software from Magnet Forensics that recovers existing and deleted data from 220+ Internet-related artifacts has been reviewed by Jonathan Krause of Forensic Control. To read the full report and learn more about IEF’s

Article: Mobile Device Geotags & Armed Forces

In recent years it has been noticeable that the amount of people carrying a smart phone has increased exponentially. This is down to their low price and availability; even children as young as 12 have a smart phone. However, most

Why Use IEF to Search for Internet-Related Artifacts? Efficiency!

[Republished from the Magnet Forensics blog by Lance Mueller, Director of Forensics – Magnet Forensics (formerly JADsoftware).]Well, it’s day two for me at Magnet Forensics, and I thought I would take the opportunity to say “hello” to everyone and briefly

Article: Interpretation of NTFS Timestamps

File and directory timestamps are one of the resources forensic analysts use for determining when something happened, or in what particular order a sequence of events took place. As these timestamps usually are stored in some internal format, additional software