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30th October 2026

How A MacBook With A Broken Screen Helped Convict A UK Property Fraudster: Belkasoft X Case Study
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A broken MacBook, an iPhone, and a £113,000 fraud case - discover how Belkasoft X helped uncover crucial digital evidence that brought a UK property fraudster to justice....

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Forensic Focus Digest, 30 Oct 2026

Forensic Focus Digest, 30 Oct 2026

30th October 2026

Discover what’s new on Forensic Focus: explore end-to-end digital investigations with Magnet Forensics, meet Matt Goeckel, AI researcher at Cellebrite, learn about the Cellebrite Autumn 2026 Release, and more....read more

Preparing Digital Multimedia Evidence For Court: What To Consider Before Presentation

Preparing Digital Multimedia Evidence For Court: What To Consider Before Presentation

29th October 2026

Effective courtroom presentation starts with careful preparation - discover how Amped Replay helps forensic professionals prepare clear, accurate and properly documented digital multimedia evidence for court....read more

Explore Cellebrite’s Autumn 2026 Release: Discover What’s New

Explore Cellebrite’s Autumn 2026 Release: Discover What’s New

29th October 2026

Discover how the Cellebrite Autumn 2026 Release is transforming digital investigations with faster access to evidence, AI-powered insights and seamless collaboration....read more

Edinburgh Napier University launches cybercrime degree

Edinburgh Napier University is launching a new part-time MSc in Advanced Security and Cybercrime. Aimed at professionals already working in computer security, the master’s course will arm students with the skills to combat a wide range of threats including phishing

Apple phones are AES-tough, says forensics expert

Monday’s Technology Review carries a glowing tribute to Apple iPhone security according to its author, Simson Garfinkel, a contributing editor who works in computer forensics and is highly regarded as a leader in digital forensics. He says Apple has passed

Researchers Show How to Crack Android Encryption

As forensic examiners, some of the last things we want to hear are “encryption” and “enabled” in the same sentence, however that’s what has been happening with the current line of Android devices. Starting with Android 3.0, devices have been

BlackBag and Bright Forensics offer Mac Forensics Training in the UK

Bright Forensics, the UK based company best known for Live Forensics Courses (delivered by Nick Furneaux), is delighted to announce a new partnership with BlackBag Technologies of San Jose, CA. Bright will carry the full range of Mac Forensics solutions

ATC-NY Announces New Computer Forensics Tool – Mem Marshal

ATC-NY’s new forensics tool – Mem Marshal™ 1.0 – is a user-friendly, automated memory analysis system that assists and automates computer forensic investigations of volatile memory (RAM) images. Mem Marshal enables computer forensic investigators to analyze and effectively make use

Forensic Examination of FrostWire version 5

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 are ever

Forensics in a Digital Age – Tool Helps Police Track Tech Trails

Computer forensic analysts worldwide use the Internet Evidence Finder tool to find Internet-related evidence on computers. In today’s digital world, we sometimes forget that the things we type online are never truly erased. And even though this information is buried

eDiscovery Market Expected to Reach USD 9.9 Billion Globally in 2017

According to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research “eDiscovery (Software and Service) Market – Global Scenario, Trends, Industry Analysis, Size, Share and Forecast, 2010 – 2017,” the global e-discovery market was worth USD 3.6 billion in 2010

Book Review: Mastering Windows Network Forensics and 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

X1 Discovery and the National White Collar Crime Center Fight Cybercrime

X1 Discovery, the leader in software solutions for social media and website evidence search and collection, along with the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), an internationally recognized leader in education and support in the prevention and prosecution of high

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