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

RIP Sir Maurice Wilkes

The “father” of British computing, Sir Maurice Wilkes, has died at the age of 97. Sir Maurice was the designer and creator of Edsac, a computer that ran its first program in May 1949… More (The Register)

Interview with George Chlapoutakis, Digital Forensics lecturer

Lecturer in computer science and digital forensics, and owner of SecurityBible Networks, George is also a well respected member and contributor in the Forensic Focus forums, posting under the username DarkSYN. Read our interview with him at http://www.forensicfocus.com/george-chlapoutakis-interview-291110

Project Ideas for Digital Forensics Students

Ideas for student projects suggested by Forensic Focus members (in the hope that further research will be shared with the rest of the computer forensics community) are available at the following page: http://www.forensicfocus.com/project-ideas If you decide to base your project

CarvPath 2.3.0 released

The usage of LibCarvPath in the open computer forensics architecture (OCFA) led to the discovery of a multitude of bugs that have minor impact when using LibCarvPath on a single tool basis but that became important when scaled up. This

SAFE Corporation Announces CodeScreener Online Software Plagiarism Detection

Software Analysis & Forensic Engineering Corporation has announced the release of CodeScreener, an online software service offering comparison of software source code or binary code. CodeScreener measures the correlation between two application programs, social network games, or mobile apps to

Former Guidance Software Executives Join HBGary Leadership Team

HBGary, Inc. has announced that James Butterworth and Sam Maccherola, who both previously worked at Guidance Software, have joined the company. Mr. Butterworth will serve as Vice President of Services and Mr. Maccherola will serve as Vice President of Worldwide

CP victims seek multimillion-dollar payouts

In December 2008, Virginia-based deputy sheriff Arthur Weston Staples III received a visit at home from police investigating claims he had traded CP images online. The former Vietnam vet, who had no previous offenses, was eventually sentenced to more than

iPhone Forensics White Paper

A new iPhone Forensics white paper by Andrew Hoog and Katie Strzempka has been released and is intended for forensic analysts, corporations and consumers who want to understand what personal information is stored on the iPhone and how to recover

Bankers in UK to see mobile calls taped

Investment bankers and traders in the UK are to have calls made on company mobile phones taped in a bid to crack down on insider trading. City watchdog, the Financial Services Authority ruled calls would be stored for six months,

Sheriff in spat with fiscal over CP

The Crown Office was forced to step in last night to prevent a paedophile walking free after a newly-appointed district procurator fiscal refused to allow a sheriff to see evidence of CP. Andrew Richardson, who only took up his role

Case could clear names of hundreds of men accused of CP

Hundreds of men who say they were wrongly accused of CP offences could have their names cleared after a case to be heard in the court of appeal tomorrow. One of the 3,700 men arrested as part of Operation Ore

Interview with Stephen Mason – Barrister, author and publisher

Stephen Mason is a Barrister, author and general editor of three books in relation to electronic evidence and electronic signatures. He is also the founder, general editor and publisher of the Digital Evidence and Electronic Signature Law Review. Read our

FBI Honors Internship Program

Each summer, a special group of outstanding undergraduate and graduate students are selected to participate in the FBI Honors Internship Program in Washington, D.C., or at select Field Office locations. The FBI Honors Internship Program offers undergraduate and graduate school

UK legal professionals – interested in writing for Forensic Focus?

Forensic Focus is looking for someone within the UK legal profession who might be interested in joining the current group of Forensic Focus columnists by writing a monthly column on computer forensics/computer crime issues. This is not a paid position

A big thank you from David Benford!

"I am really pleased to say that I completed the Mizuno Amsterdam Half Marathon on Sunday 17th October 2010 in aid of the Cystinosis Foundation UK. Please may I thank everyone on Forensic Focus that sponsored and supported me. My

‘Warpigs’ VXer pleads guilty

A veteran Scottish virus writer faces a likely spell behind bars after pleading guilty to computer crime offences. Matthew Anderson aka Warpigs, 33, a franchise manager from Drummuir, Aberdeenshire, admitted his key role in a malware for profit scam at