18th June 2026

AI In Digital Forensics: 10 Best Practices For Investigators
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Cellebrite explores how AI is transforming digital forensics by accelerating analysis and connecting evidence, while human expertise and rigorous verification remain essential....

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Forensic Audio & Video Transcription – Search Hours Of Recordings In Seconds | BelkaGPT

Forensic Audio & Video Transcription – Search Hours Of Recordings In Seconds | BelkaGPT

18th June 2026

See how BelkaGPT turns audio, voice messages and video into searchable text, helping investigators find the exact moment a keyword was spoken....read more

Amped Connect UK: The Free Event Every UK Amped User Should Attend

Amped Connect UK: The Free Event Every UK Amped User Should Attend

18th June 2026

Amped Software’s first free UK event lands in Stafford on 9 September, bringing professionals together for practical insights, expert-led sessions and open discussion on the future of image and video forensics—register now to secure your place....read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, June 17 2026

Digital Forensics Round-Up, June 17 2026

17th June 2026

Read the latest DFIR news – CCTV chain of custody, UEFI bootkit detection, Android intrusion log analysis, new LEAPP reporting, macOS Tahoe artifacts, and more....read more

Guidance Software Ranked #1 in E-Discovery Software Buyer’s Guide

Guidance Software Inc. has announced that its EnCase(R) eDiscovery software was ranked #1 out of more than 20 vendors in the inaugural DCIG E-Discovery Early Case Assessment (ECA) Buyer’s Guide. For the Buyer’s Guide, DCIG looked at more than 60

Book Review: Mastering Windows Network Forensics & Investigations

Mastering Windows Network Forensics and Investigations fills an interesting niche not well addressed in the pantheon of digital forensics resources.  The material is well suited for beginning and intermediate forensic examiners looking to better understand network artifacts and go beyond

Authenticating Internet Web Pages as Evidence: a New Approach

Previously, in Forensic Focus, we addressed the issue of evidentiary authentication of social media data. General Internet site data available through standard web browsing, instead of social media data provided by APIs or user credentials, presents slightly different but just

Interview with Jess Garcia, founder of One eSecurity

Let's say we're looking at a cyber-crime scene comprised of several still powered on computers as well as confiscated smartphones. When the forensic investigator arrives, what does his workflow look like? Mobile devices are typically the most volatile of all

Forensic Examination of FrostWire version 5

Introduction As digital forensic practitioners, we are faced regularly  with users utilizing the internet to swop and download copyrighted and contraband material. Peer to peer (P2P) applications are commonly used for this purpose, and like any software application, they is

Firefox Forensics

I was showing someone a trick to export Firefox SQLite tables to a spread sheet, and while she is a forensics person, she had never ever heard of this trick. It is neat enough to know when working off an

Retrieving Digital Evidence: Methods, Techniques and Issues

This article describes the various types of digital forensic evidence available on users’ PC and laptop computers, and discusses methods of retrieving such evidence. A recent research conducted by Berkeley scientists concluded that up to 93% of all information never

Authenticating Internet Web Pages as Evidence: a New Approach

By John Patzakis [1] and Brent Botta [2] Previously, in Forensic Focus, we addressed the issue of evidentiary authentication of social media data (see previous entries here and here). General Internet site data available through standard web browsing, instead of

Parallels hard drive image converting for analysis

The other day, talking to one of the analysts in Dallas, a question emerged about analyzing Parallels’ virtual machine hard drives. To my surprise, I did not find many help on this issue on-line and did not find tools that

Retrieving Digital Evidence: Methods, Techniques and Issues

by Yuri Gubanov [email protected] Belkasoft Ltd. http://belkasoft.com Abstract This article describes the various types of digital forensic evidence available on users’ PC and laptop computers, and discusses methods of retrieving such evidence. Download article in PDF format Introduction A recentÂ