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

Backbone’s Digital Steganography Database Exceeds 900 Applications

Backbone Security has announced the release of Version 3.8 of the Steganography Application Fingerprint Database (SAFDB) which now contains more than 900 steganography applications…Developed in Backbone’s Steganography Analysis and Research Center (SARC), SAFDB is the world’s largest commercially available hash

Digital Forensics Awards

That time of year is upon us once again. It is awards season and, as such, the nominations for the 2011 Forensic 4cast Awards are now open. Please visit: http://forensic4cast.com/2011/02/11/forensic-4cast-awards-2011-nominations-are-open/ to nominate someone deserving.

Vere Software’s Free Online Investigation Basics Webinar Series Returns

Vere Software is pleased to announce the return of its popular, free “Online Investigations Basics” webinar series. Designed to help investigators maximize their online evidence collection skills, the monthly webinars will feature investigative techniques and issues such as: Tracing IP

DFRWS Call For Papers – Ends 27 Feb 2011

DFRWS brings together leading researchers, developers, practitioners, and educators interested in advancing the state of the art in digital forensics from around the world. As the most established venue in the field, DFRWS is the preferred place to present both

Interview with Ben Findlay, North Yorkshire Police Hi Tech Crime Unit

"Many people are familiar with the concept and importance of validating and verifying (V&V) results (and the difference between the two), but it would be fantastic if this could be engineered into the software (perhaps through some form of fundamentals

“I’m here! Now what?”

by Ken Pryor"Working for a small police department in a rural area, my opportunities to do digital forensic work on real cases are much fewer and farther between than those who work in large departments or in the private sector.

Challenges of Smart Phone Forensics

by Rob Adams "Mobile devices have become an essential component of our daily lives. These devices keep us connected and act as so much more than the cell phones and portable music players of the 1990's. It is common today

Legal-IT Collaboration: An Oxymoron No Longer?

"At a recent corporate client meeting held to determine whether an in-house legal e-discovery tool would be a good fit, the first item on the agenda was the cost. Before getting started, however, we had to stop the meeting so

Test Images and Forensic Challenges

A list of sample images and forensic challenges is now available at: http://www.forensicfocus.com/images-and-challenges Additions are encouraged and may either be sent through the feedback form or added to this forum topic. Thank you to those who helped compile the current

Researchers launch mobile device ‘to spot paedophiles’

A mobile phone application which claims to identify adults posing as children is to be released. The team behind Child Defence says the app can analyse language to generate an age profile, identifying potential paedophiles. Isis Forensics developed the tool

ATC-NY Releases Two New Free Forensics Tools

ATC-NY has just released two free, new forensics tools: Mac Memory Reader and eMule Reader. Mac Memory Reader is a simple command-line utility to capture the contents of physical RAM on a suspect Macintosh computer, letting an investigator gather volatile

Paraben Acquires Project-A-Phone

Paraben Corporation has announced the acquisition of Project-a-Phone, a tool used in the digital forensic industry as well as corporate settings to be able to display and record data from the screen of a mobile device. “We are looking forward

Parents Sue Expert Witness Who Made Fake CP of Their Kids

An Ohio lawyer who serves as an expert witness in CP cases might be on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars in civil damages for Photoshopping courtroom exhibits of children having sex. Attorney Dean Boland purchased innocent pictures

Competition finds next generation of cybersleuths

As an actor, Paul Laverack is used to dealing with fictional crime: he once had a role in a couple of episodes of Stingers, an Australian TV cop show. “I actually played a criminal who was trying to buy a