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 4cast Awards 2011

The nominees for the Forensic 4cast Awards are now online at http://www.forensic4cast.com/2011/05/forensic-4cast-awards-meet-the-nominees/ Please take some time to review the nominees and place your votes. The awards ceremony will be taking place during the SANS Forensic Summit in Austin, Texas on

Science advice ‘not sought’ on UK FSS closure

The Home Office’s chief scientific adviser was not consulted over the closure of the UK Forensic Science Service (FSS), it has emerged. Bernard Silverman said he was informed in advance but not consulted “as such”. Dr Silverman was speaking at

SC Suite v4.2 Released

A new version of SC Suite is available, version 4.2 now includes more tools to analyse and extract information from a variety of file types and utilities to assist in every day tasks. Continuing user feedback has resulted in the

Software as Evidence

Increasingly, chains of evidence include software steps. It’s not just the RIAA suing people – and getting it wrong – based on automatic systems to detect and identify file sharers. It’s forensic programs used to collect and analyze data from

WetStone Releases Tool to Law Enforcement

WetStone announces the release of T.A.P.S.™ (Trait Analytical Profiling Search). This technology was developed under an NIJ funded grant to support state and local law enforcement. WetStone and NIJ have been working on this research for over 2 years. The

New software to help police catch web paedophiles

New computer software set to be used by Notts police will boost efforts to catch internet paedophiles. The Triage Investigator will allow specialist officers to get hold of logs from online chat rooms quicker – and get e-mail contact details

Passware Takes Password Cracking Into the Cloud

Passware, Inc. has announced its Passware Kit Forensic is the first commercial software to harness the power of cloud computing to accelerate password recovery. “Some types of encryption are so secure that without expensive hardware accelerators, it becomes literally impossible

Google Analytics Cookies hold crucial digital forensic evidence

Research analysts at CCL-Forensics have forensically recovered vital internet history data from ‘cookies’ stored within a smartphone, which would not have been retrieved and interpreted using ‘standard’ forensic tools…In particular, cookies placed by the Google Analytics service yielded crucial evidence.

Internet probe can track you down to within 690 metres

Online adverts could soon start stalking you. A new way of working out where you are by looking at your internet connection could pin down your current location to within a few hundred metres. Similar techniques are already in use,

Operation Ore was based on flawed evidence (The Register)

Britain’s biggest ever computer crime investigation, Operation Ore, was flawed by a catalogue of “discrepancies, errors and uncertainties”, disclosed reports of two national police conferences seen by The Register reveal. The police memoranda show that within months of the operation

Cyber-stalking should be a criminal offence, UK MPs say

Cyber-stalking should be made a criminal offence, says a group of MPs calling for an overhaul of the law. The charity Network for Surviving Stalking says the internet is “another weapon in the stalker’s armoury”. More than 80 MPs from

Everything you do online reveals your identity

Identity theft isn’t the biggest threat to your privacy online. According to one leading US lawyer, it’s the details you give away without realising – and even seemingly anonymous data can be used to piece together your identity. ‘Re-identification’ –

The End of Digital Forensics?

by Craig Ball "When Microsoft introduced its Encrypting File System (EFS) in Windows 2000, the Cassandras of computer forensics peppered the listserves with predictions that the days of digital forensics were numbered. Ten years on and hundreds of systems acquired,