3rd September 2026

“The Skills And Resilience To Do One Of The Hardest Jobs In Policing” — Why This DFIR Recruitment Language Gets The Evidence Wrong
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Does recruiting for “resilience” risk putting responsibility in the wrong place? Paul Gullon-Scott looks at what the evidence says about digital forensic well-being, workload and organisational support, and why the language we use matters....

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Belkasoft Named A Major Player In The IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Digital Forensics Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment

Belkasoft Named A Major Player In The IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Digital Forensics Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment

3rd September 2026

Belkasoft has been named a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Digital Forensics Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment - a milestone that reflects the maturity of Belkasoft X and the company's continued innovation in AI-powered digital forensics....read more

Cellebrite Genesis: Turn Digital Evidence Into Actionable Leads In Minutes

Cellebrite Genesis: Turn Digital Evidence Into Actionable Leads In Minutes

3rd September 2026

See how Cellebrite Genesis uses agentic AI to help enterprise investigative teams cut through complex digital evidence, uncover connections, and move from data to actionable leads in minutes....read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, September 02 2026

Digital Forensics Round-Up, September 02 2026

2nd September 2026

Read the latest DFIR news - SANS AI frameworks for DFIR, AI hackathon tools, investigator well-being, macOS unlock artifacts, cross-platform log analysis, Apple Health forensics, and more....read more

Stefan Fleischmann, CEO X-Ways Software Technology AG

Stefan, can you tell us something about your background? Why did you decide to concentrate on the forensic aspects of WinHex and develop X-Ways Forensics? Originally I started programming WinHex because I needed a hex editor and disk editor myself

John Patzakis, Vice Chairman and Chief Legal Officer, Guidance Software

Can you tell us something about your background before joining Guidance Software? Why did you decide to focus on technology law? After law school I practiced commercial litigation for about 8 years before joining Guidance Software in 1999. During my

Harlan Carvey

How did you get started in computer forensics, was there something in particular which appealed to you about investigating computer misuse? When I first got started in computer security, I quickly noticed the number of people who were Linux or

AccessData Releases Forensic Toolkit 4

AccessData has announced the release of Forensic Toolkit (FTK) 4. A new feature called ‘Single-Node Enterprise’ gives FTK users the full analysis functionality of AD Enterprise, AccessData’s enterprise-class investigation and incident response solution. “FTK 4 gives our users access to

Small business helps train cyber investigators across the globe

When the U.S. government wants to help train foreign law enforcement officers on how to extract the hidden secrets of a laptop computer or a cell phone, it often turns to a small company in Mobile. Gus Dimitrelos and a

Book review: Cyber Warfare

Cyber-espionage, cyber-war: do we really need to worry about them — and if we do, what can we do about them? Cyber Warfare sets out to answer both questions via a comprehensive survey of the potential threats, the incidents we

Forensic Focus site redesign

A short advance warning that I’m planning to make some changes to the site design this evening. There won’t be any major changes, just a refresh to give what I hope will be a cleaner, more professional look with somewhat

A Career in Forensics: 5 Key Steps

Joseph Naghdi, an experienced computer technologist, transitioned to digital forensics in early 2000 because he was intrigued by how data is stored and discovered on computers. Today, he’s a forensics analyst at Computer Forensics Lab, a U.K. consultancy specializing in

University of Hawaii to ask for tougher computer crime law

The University of Hawaii is asking legislators to toughen laws to make it easier to go after web site operators who try to hurt the school’s image after a pornographic web site called universityofhawaii.xxx began operation earlier this year. The

Guidance Software Acquires CaseCentral

Pasadena-based Guidance Software, which develops digital forensics and e-discovery software, said Tuesday afternoon that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire CaseCentral, a developer of electronic discovery software. Guidance Software said it will pay $17.1M for CaseCentral, with up

Want CSI without the blood? Investigate computer forensics

Most people may not have any idea what a computer forensics expert does beyond a general knowledge gleaned from spy novels. But the profession may be worth exploring as a real-life career since it’s expected to grow by double digits

Cumbria’s top cop leads fight against cyber crime

Cumbria police’s online expert Stuart Hyde is joining an internet safety day today. The acting Chief Constable, an international expert on computer crime and president of the charity the Society for the Policing of Cyberspace, will be involved with the

Defendant Ordered to Decrypt Laptop May Have Forgotten Password

A Colorado woman ordered to decrypt her laptop so prosecutors may use the files against her in a criminal case might have forgotten the password, the defendant’s attorney said Monday. The authorities seized the Toshiba laptop from defendant Ramona Fricosu

Forensics vendor warns Mac OS X FileVault vulnerable to decryption

Passware, a vendor of forensics tools for recovering data for law enforcement, has issued a warning that its forensics tools can bypass the security of FileVault disk encryption in Mac OS X if the computer is left powered on, recovering