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

Did Dutch Police Break the Law Taking Down a Botnet?

Dutch police took unprecedented action in taking down a botnet on Monday: They uploaded their own program to infected computers around the world, a move that likely violated computer crime laws. The program causes a computer’s Web browser to redirect

FBI Reports Digital Forensics Progress

The FBI has been quietly building up its network of computer forensics laboratories to aid law-enforcement agencies across the country, and Friday revealed some of the progress made in the 10 years since they were opened…. More (InformationWeek)

Digital Forensics and ‘self-tracking’

by Chris Hargreaves "This month's article is based very loosely around a recent 5-minute talk from Gary Wolf which explores the concept of ‘self-tracking’ (the trend for people to record aspects of their life) and how this can now be

Top cyber crime cop lied under oath, says judge

The head of the [UK] national police unit set up to tackle internet crime told lies under oath about her involvement in a plot to damage the career of a junior detective, a judge has said. Detective Superintendent Charlie McMurdie,

It’s not always what you find…

by Sam Raincock "In digital forensics we are often asked to determine the presence of evidence. However, what happens when we do not find anything? How do we prove something wasn’t there? Proving something is present is generally a trivial

Cyber crime among top UK threats

Attacks on computer networks are among the biggest threats to the UK, Theresa May has said ahead of the publication of a new National Security Strategy. Cyber terrorism was a “new and growing” danger, the home secretary said… More (BBC)

How to seduce your (potential) computer forensics employer

by David Sullivan "We all over-complicate things and this is certainly true when seeking a new job. Essentially, to be successful at a Computer Forensics interview you just need to demonstrate two things: 1. You have the technical skills needed

Voom Technologies Releases HardCopy 3P and DriveWiper 3

Voom’s portable HardCopy 3P has two destinations ports, allowing the forensic investigator to create two duplicates simultaneously, one to be analyzed and one back-up, in a forensically-sound fashion and automatically handles hidden areas of the drive (HPA’s and DCO’s). MD5

A cloud by any other name…

by Simon Biles "We are operating in a field that has only been around for, by all counts ( ok, let’s leave Babbage out of it ) not even a century, yet we seem to have run out of innovation.

Clearwell Extends E-Discovery Platform

Clearwell Systems, Inc. has announced the release of its Identification and Collection Module. Available with version 6.0 of the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform, the new module enables IT teams to easily identify and collect electronically stored information (ESI) while maintaining data

E-crime police arrest gang behind UK online bank fraud

Nineteen people suspected of stealing millions from online bank accounts have been arrested by police. Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit raided a string of addresses across London on Monday. The suspects are alleged to be part of

Colombian police examine Farc rebels’ laptops

Experts in Colombia are trying to crack the codes to 15 computers and almost 100 memory sticks belonging to Colombia’s largest rebel group. They were seized on Thursday after a massive raid on a Farc jungle camp… More (BBC)

Programming for Digital Forensics

by Chris Hargreaves This month I wanted to discuss programming, specifically whether learning a programming language is useful for a digital forensic practitioner. I have been unable to find any surveys or polls capturing the proportion of practitioners who can

UK privacy lawyer challenges police view of intercept law

The claim by London’s Metropolitan Police that the interception of messages is only illegal when the message has not been listened to, read or collected by the recipient has been challenged by a privacy law expert. The Met’s Assistant Commissioner

Handyman jailed for planting CP on boss’s computer

A handyman who planted CP on his boss’s computer in a bid to get promoted has been jailed. Neil Weiner, 40, hatched the “wickedly evil and vile plot” to get caretaker Eddie Thompson sacked from Swanlea Secondary School in east