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

Nuix 4.2 upgrade delivers toolset for large-scale digital investigations

Nuix has released version 4.2 of its investigation software. New digital forensics capabilities in this release round out Nuix’s investigative feature set, making it an essential tool for any government or private-sector organization needing to complete large-scale investigations efficiently and

Phones Can Be Searched If No Password Lock: Ontario Court

Ontario’s highest court has signalled that the right of police officers to look through someone’s phone depends on whether there’s a password. The Court of Appeal for Ontario says it’s all right for police to have a cursory look through

Reconnoitre from Sanderson Forensics updated

Sanderson Forensics are pleased to announce an update to our most recent software tool Reconnoitre. Reconnoitre allows the forensic investigator to quickly and easily investigate images containing volume shadow copies, without the need to run VSSAdmin. This latest version adds

New Free Tool: Decrypting the Dropbox filecache.dbx file

Republished from the MagnetForensics.com blog by Jad Saliba, Founder & CTO of Magnet Forensics (formerly JADsoftware) I would like to introduce a new free tool we’ve just released to the forensics community called Dropbox® Decryptor. But first, some background. Dropbox

Belkasoft Offers Free and Easy Way to Save Facebook Information

Belkasoft has released Facebook Profile Saver, a free tool to capture information publicly available in Facebook profiles. This tiny tool is aimed at computer forensic and security specialists who need to automate the downloading of Facebook pages for offline analysis.

EuroForensics 2013: 4th International Forensic Conference & Exhibition

Euroforensics 2013: 4th International Forensic Sciences, Cyber Security and Surveillance Technologies Conference & Exhibition takes place in Harbiye Military Museum Istanbul, Turkey 27-29 March 2013. The 4th Euroforensics has been designed as the primary international conference and exhibition for sourcing

Empower Frontline Personnel & Combat Forensic Backlogs With IEF FRONTLINE

With a strong commitment to helping thousands of customers in the world’s top law enforcement, military, government and corporate organizations recover data from a broad range of Internet-related communications, Magnet Forensics (formerly JADsoftware) has launched a new forensic software tool:

University of Illinois shaping curriculum to train digital sleuths

As the field of cybersecurity, which can include police officers, private investigators and government officials, is expected to grow in the coming years, a diverse team at the University of Illinois has begun to shape a curriculum to train future

New committee formed to develop eDiscovery process standards

A 66-year-old governing body with 162 member nations that deal with a wide range of issues has announced that they are forming a new committee who will have the task of developing standards for eDiscovery processes. The International Standards Organisation

Robert Bond, Product Marketing Manager, Guidance Software

Robert, please tell us a little about yourself and your role at Guidance Software I’m the new Product Marketing Manager of Forensic Solutions which includes EnCase Forensic, Encase Portable and Tableau products. I have been in marketing for over 15

Passware Kit 12.3 Extracts Facebook, Google Passwords from Computer Memory

Passware, Inc., a provider of password recovery, decryption, and electronic evidence discovery software for computer forensics, law enforcement organizations, government agencies, and private investigators, announces that Passware Kit Forensic v.12.3 can recover passwords for Facebook and Google from computer memory

What are ‘gdocs’? Google Drive Data – part 2

Following up from the recent post on Google Drive, designed to give a high level introduction to the product, this post will delve a bit deeper into the technical issues relating to the data stored and also the best approach