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

FBI Director Says Cyberthreat Will Surpass Threat From Terrorists

Threats from cyber-espionage, computer crime, and attacks on critical infrastructure will surpass terrorism as the number one threat facing the United States, FBI Director Robert Mueller testified today. Mueller and National Intelligence Director James Clapper, addressing the annual Worldwide Threat

Case studies – what would you find useful?

Following on from an earlier discussion, I’d like to revisit the idea of “case studies”. What would people find useful in a case study, e.g. what subject areas would we like to see covered, what level of expertise, what format

Oxygen Forensic Suite 2012 v.4.0.1 released

Oxygen Forensic Suite 2012 v.4.0.1 introduces support for Touch application analysis for Android and Apple devices; improves examination of SkyFire mobile browser data adding Apple devices support. The new release adds more than 80 Android-based devices, the overall number of

BlackBag Technologies Announces New MacQuisition 2012.R1 Release

BlackBag Technologies, Inc. today announced the release of MacQuisition 2012.R1, a 3-in-1 live data acquisition, targeted data collection, and forensic imaging tool. New features include: * Targeted File Collection – Quickly triage, select, and acquire targeted files, folders, or entire

Irish business with tools to dig out digital evidence

Computer forensics start-up Cernam is to launch its first product later this month, a tool for gathering legally admissible digital evidence from online sources such as Facebook, blogs and message boards. The Dublin company sees a gap in the market

The Data Specimen is the Blood of Cyber Forensics

At first glance, one would assume that the only common thread that runs between a forensic lab that analyzes blood samples, fingerprints and DNA evidence, and a Cyber forensic lab that analyzes data is that both processes verify the facts

JADsoftware announces new IEF Triage product

JADsoftware Inc. has announced IEF Triage, a new edition to its computer forensics solution, Internet Evidence Finder (IEF). IEF can search for evidence within a number of applications including: social networking, IM chats, webmail, browsers, and p2p artifacts. IEF Triage

Forensic Imaging of Hard Disk Drives- What we thought we knew

By Todd G. Shipley and Bryan Door (A complete copy of this white paper and its figures and diagrams can be found at www.nfdrtc.net). WHAT WE HAVE BEEN TAUGHT Imaging of hard drives has been the main stay of the

Harry Onderwater

A few days ago the Dutch forensics community – indeed, the wider forensics community – lost one of its founding fathers, Harry Onderwater. Having worked for many years for the Dutch police in Amsterdam, Harry then moved to the Centrale

Can Your Digital Images Withstand A Court Challenge?

The term “digital” in law enforcement is almost immediately associated with digital forensics, i.e.; computer crimes, cyber terrorism, child porn on computer hard drives, and other areas that require special training, expertise, and equipment to investigate these types of digital

Review: Proof Finder by Nuix

Reviewed by Jonathan Krause of Forensic Control Well, this is an interesting proposition. Early last December Nuix, the respected producers of eDiscovery software, released an intriguing, and as far as I know in this sector, unique, application. Called Proof Finder,

SubRosaSoft.com Inc. Releases MacForensicsLab 4.0

SubRosaSoft.com Inc. announces the immediate availability of the latest version of their powerful computer forensic suite, MacForensicsLab 4.0. The new version brings a streamlined interface and many other improvements to make examinations quicker and more accurate than ever before.SubRosaSoft.com Inc.

AACC Digital Forensics Team Hacks Their Way to First Place

The cyber-forensics team at Anne Arundel Community College (AACC) took top honors among community colleges in a competition that pitted them against the best teams in the nation, and 52 other countries. The team consisted of AACC students from all

Computer crimes meet their match with digital forensics investigator

Bombs, sex crimes, homicides, suicides, fraud and burglary. Such cases are where the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office new digital forensics investigator comes into play. To keep up with advances in digital technology and communication — and the criminals who use

EviGator Digital Forensic release LISTView PRO

EviGator Digital Forensic announces LISTView PRO, a tool for the examination of XML and binary property list (PLIST) files. Property list files are used extensively on computers running Mac OS, iPhones, iPads and the iPod touch. LISTView PRO allows examiners

Former Cop Now Busts Bad Guys Digitally

Before RCMP Sergeant Jeff Cameron left his Edmonton office on Friday, Dec. 16, he took a laptop seized in a drug bust, hooked it up to his computer and clicked “run” on digital forensics software created in Waterloo, Ont. While