7th August 2025

The Balance Between Digital Forensic Examiners And Digital Evidence Technicians: Expertise Vs. Efficiency
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Can digital forensic labs cut backlogs without cutting corners? Debbie Garner explores how tiered workflows using both examiners and technicians can strike the right balance....

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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

More Than Software: Amped Training Teaches You The Science Of Forensic Video And Image Analysis

More Than Software: Amped Training Teaches You The Science Of Forensic Video And Image Analysis

7th August 2025

Push past button-clicking—Amped Software training teaches the science behind forensic video analysis....read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 06 2025

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 06 2025

6th August 2025

Read the latest DFIR news – starting a digital forensic business, Hashcat v7.0.0, GenAI incident response guidance, cross-border investigation challenges, and more....read more

Google History Forensics

by Craig Ball In my last Forensic Focus column, I touched on migration to handhelds and the cloud, mushrooming drive capacities and encryption-by-default as just some of the factors auguring the eventual extinction of conventional digital forensics. But an end

Time and Forensics

by Simon Biles Time fascinates me, it has an amazing history and it has some great “toys”. One of my favourite quotes of all time is from Groucho Marx: “Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.” I

Belkasoft Evidence Center 3.0

Belkasoft announces a major upgrade to its flagship forensic product, Belkasoft Evidence Center. The new version 3.0 adds picture and video support, enabling forensic investigators to run automated searches for images and video footage containing people’s faces or pornographic content.

Thomas Cannon and Jonathan Zdziarski join viaForensics

viaForensics, a firm providing expert services and products for mobile security and forensics, has announced that it has named US iPhone expert Jonathan Zdziarski and UK Android expert Thomas Cannon to its research and development arm. Both researchers are respected

Digital forensics: The inside story

Jelle Niemantsverdriet is the Principal Consultant, Forensics and Investigative Response EMEA, Verizon Business Security Solutions. In this interview he introduces the reader to the world of digital forensics and talks about computer forensics tools, privacy concerns, the fundamental differences in

Obtaining Information from Mobile Devices in Criminal Investigations

by David W. Bennett "Mobile device forensics has expanded significantly over the past few years. Older model mobile phones could store a limited amount of data that could be easily obtained by the forensics investigator. With the development of the

The cold boot attack: Can it be used for forensic memory acquisition?

by Richard Carbone "The purpose of this technical memorandum is to examine the technical characteristics behind the cold boot attack technique and to understand when and how this technique should be applied to the field of computer forensic investigations. Upon

DFCB Announces September 2nd Application Deadline for DFCP Designation

The Digital Forensics Certification Board (DFCB), an independent certifications organization for digital evidence examiners, today announced that its next application deadline for its Digital Forensics Certified Practitioner (DFCP) designation is September 2, 2011. The DFCB currently accepts applications four times

Mobile Forensics Training Session by viaForensics

viaForensics will hold five mobile forensics training sessions covering Linux use in forensics, iPhone forensics, Android forensics, advanced mobile forensics, and advanced file carving. The sessions will be held at the Peel Police Department in Mississauga, Ontario, October 3-7, 2011.

Jeffrey “Skunk” Baxter Announced as PFIC 2011 Keynote Speaker

PFIC – Paraben’s Forensic Innovation Conference – is pleased to have Jeffrey “Skunk” Baxter as our keynote this year. Not only is he one of the world’s leading guitarists, but he is one of the top innovators in the world

Google History Forensics

by Craig Ball "In my last Forensic Focus column, I touched on migration to handhelds and the cloud, mushrooming drive capacities and encryption-by-default as just some of the factors auguring the eventual extinction of conventional digital forensics. But an end

Brazilian Digital Forensics Lab Fights Faked Evidence

The question whether a photo showing you pulling off a mask after robbing a bank is real or fake may decide if you go to jail or not. For his research on digital video and image forensics, Anderson de Rezende

Careers in Digital Forensics

Getting into digital forensics today requires a jack-of-all-trades to be able to work with emerging technology, such as the cloud, says Rob Lee of SANS Institute. “The more that you could focus in on computer science topics, to understand programming,

Forensic Technology Preview Day 2011 – Germany

On the 11th and 12th October the mh Service GmbH organizes their annual FT-Day – this year at the Schlosshotel Karlsruhe in Germany. See equipment, software, exhibitors and speakers. This year for the first time – workshops offered by the