11th August 2025

Neal Ysart, Co-Founder, The Coalition Of Cyber Investigators
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Neal Ysart shares how The Coalition of Cyber Investigators tackles OSINT integrity, complex investment fraud, and the rise of AI-driven scams....

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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

The Balance Between Digital Forensic Examiners And Digital Evidence Technicians: Expertise Vs. Efficiency

The Balance Between Digital Forensic Examiners And Digital Evidence Technicians: Expertise Vs. Efficiency

7th August 2025

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....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

Forensic tool for Android devices released

viaForensics has announced the release of viaExtract – Android Logical, a new analysis and reporting application for Android devices. This analysis and reporting tool expands on viaForensics’ AFLogical acquisition tool used by law enforcement. The application is self-contained in a

Firm’s delight at its deal with Dell over evidence software

A piece of software developed by a small Milton Keynes IT company has been taken up by one of the biggest computer companies in the world. Evidence Talks, based in Crownhill, has developed forensic intelligence software called SPEKTOR which can

UAE students create e-learning site for forensics

Three students at the College of Information Technology of Zayed University (ZU) last week launched a project that aims to act as digital forensics e-learning platform. The project is called ‘Jenaei’, an Arabic word that translates into English as ‘forensics’,

Paraben Releases Deleted Android Data Product

Paraben Corporation has announced the release of the Phone Recovery Stick. Once plugged in to a computer, users simply plug their Android phone in and run the program. It automatically downloads user data such as call logs, pictures, address books,

DFCB opens application process

The Digital Forensics Certification Board (www.dfcb.org) has re-opened the application process for the DFCP and DFCA certifications. Founded in 2004, the Digital Forensics Certification Board is a member-driven, non-profit, vendor independent organization of the National Center for Forensic Science, sponsored

Passware Partners with Guidance Software

Passware, Inc., has announced a partnership with Guidance Software, Inc. to expand encrypted evidence discovery and analysis in the upcoming release of EnCase v7. “As encrypted electronic evidence becomes more common in computer forensics, it is hard to overestimate the

Is Sony getting a bad rap on its data breach?

It’s common for companies to learn that breaches are more serious than first thought. That’s what happens as security experts are brought in and the forensic investigation progresses. Sony just had the misfortune of having its investigation scrutinized, said Rob

Standard Units in Digital Forensics

by Chris Hargreaves "One of the earliest lectures in the MIT Openware programme in Physics begins with the lecture “Units and Dimensional Analysis”. The notion of units of measurement in science is extremely important and it therefore seems sensible to

PitchLake – a tar pit for scanners

by Simon Biles"One of my first tasks in the office this morning, after a cup of coffee of course, was to review my server logs. As of yet I’ve not got enough staff to have a minion to do this

“Epilog” SQLite forensic tool now available

Researchers at CCL-Forensics have taken a significant step forward in their analysis of SQLite databases, which are extensively used by many computers, web browsers, mobile phones and SatNavs. The latest development within epilog allows investigators to reinstate these databases to

HBGary Unveils Responder™ Community Edition

HBGary, Inc., has introduced Responder™ Community Edition, a new, free version of its flagship Responder™ product for physical memory analysis. Limited copies of this new free tool are available on CD at HBGary booth #201 at the Computer and Enterprise

New Mike’s Forensic Tools releases

MFT Runtime – Following recent requests for CPS, this software quickly totals up the runtime of either individual video clips or a collection of video clips held in recursive folders. Exports to a detailed report. MFT PictureBox – Will recursively

BackTrack 5 Released

The BackTrack Dev team has worked in the past months on BackTrack 5, code name “revolution”. It was released to the public on May 10th. This new revision has been built from scratch, and boasts several major improvements over all

Met buy software to map suspects’ digital movements

Britain’s largest police force is using software that can map nearly every move suspects and their associates make in the digital world, prompting an outcry from civil liberties groups. The Metropolitan police has bought Geotime, a security programme used by

Belkasoft announces import of IM chats to Encase

Belkasoft has recently released a free Encase integration script which allows users to import Instant Messenger chats, extracted by Belkasoft Forensic IM Analyzer, directly to an Encase case. For further information see here.