20th August 2025

Wrapping Up The S21 Transcriber Spotlight Session – What We’ve Covered
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UPCOMING WEBINAR – Retail Under Siege: Fighting Back Against Ransomware With Next-Gen Forensics

UPCOMING WEBINAR – Retail Under Siege: Fighting Back Against Ransomware With Next-Gen Forensics

19th August 2025

Retailers face rising cyber threats—join Exterro's Sept 4 webinar to learn fast, modern forensic response strategies and protect your brand....read more

Digital Forensics Jobs Round-Up, August 18 2025

Digital Forensics Jobs Round-Up, August 18 2025

18th August 2025

Explore a selection of the latest DFIR employment opportunities in this week’s Forensic Focus jobs round-up....read more

Enterprise Turns To AI For Speed And Accuracy In DFIR

Enterprise Turns To AI For Speed And Accuracy In DFIR

14th August 2025

Magnet Forensics explores how AI is revolutionizing speed and accuracy in DFIR....read more

“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

Guidance Software Brings Digital Forensics to Apple iPad, iPhone 4

Guidance Software, Inc. today announced a new forensic tool for the Apple iPad, iPhone 4 and iPod touch, giving digital investigators the ability to perform forensic analysis and e-discovery on the tablet that one in five Americans plan to buy

SAFE Corporation announces CodeSuite-LT

Software Analysis & Forensic Engineering Corporation (www.SAFE-corp.biz) has announced the release of CodeSuite-LT(R), a “lite” version of CodeSuite offering all of the key functionality for unlimited use over the term of the license.”These days companies are understandably much more cost

Evaluating Mobile Telephone Connection Behaviour – Part 1

by Sam Raincock "In general, all modern mobile telephones contain call information and SMS message storage which may be used as evidence. There may also be a wealth of other evidence available including browser history, sat nav usage etc. However,

Cyberwar? What Cyberwar?

Cyberwar hype is inhibiting government attempts to develop an appropriate response to cybersecurity threats, say computer scientists. A heavyweight study by UK computer scientists for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) concludes that it is “highly unlikely” there

Backbone Announces High Speed Real-Time Steganography Detection System

Backbone Security has announced the availability of a 1Gbps version of their network security appliance for detecting insider use of digital steganography to steal sensitive information. The Steganography Analyzer Real-time Scanner, StegAlyzerRTS, developed in Backbone’s Steganography Analysis and Research Center