5th August 2025

Safeguarding ICAC Investigators: Detego Global’s Commitment To Mental Well-Being
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Protecting children online shouldn't come at the cost of investigators' mental health—see how Detego Global is changing the game....

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Semantics 21 Wants Your Help To Rename LASERi-X

Semantics 21 Wants Your Help To Rename LASERi-X

5th August 2025

Semantics 21 is renaming their groundbreaking CSAM forensics tool—and your idea could win your team a free year of access....read more

Digital Forensics Jobs Round-Up, August 04 2025

Digital Forensics Jobs Round-Up, August 04 2025

4th August 2025

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

Collaborative Forensics: Overcoming Challenges In Multi-Jurisdictional Investigations

Collaborative Forensics: Overcoming Challenges In Multi-Jurisdictional Investigations

31st July 2025

Discover expert strategies for cross-border investigations in Exterro’s on-demand webinar....read more

Backbone’s Digital Steganography Database Exceeds 850 Applications

Backbone Security has announced the release of Version 3.6 of their Steganography Application Fingerprint Database (SAFDB) which now contains more than 850 steganography applications. Developed in Backbone’s Steganography Analysis and Research Center (SARC), SAFDB is the world’s largest commercially available

HBGary and Skout Forensics Announce OEM Agreement

HBGary, Inc. and Skout Forensics have announced the signing of an OEM agreement. Under the agreement, Skout Forensics will integrate HBGary’s Windows memory acquisition tool FDPro™ into the company’s patent-pending flagship product, the Skout Forensics Data Collection and Preservation Kit,

iPhone Tool Classification article

Sam Brothers has written a new article titled iPhone Tool Classification. In this article, he explores the varying degrees of data extraction that can be performed on the iPhone with many of the available tools today and breaks down the

Passware Kit 10.1 Cracks RAR and TrueCrypt Encryption in Record Time

Passware, Inc. has announced Passware Kit 10.1. This is the first commercially available software that cracks passwords for the most difficult to decrypt file types – RAR archives and TrueCrypt hard disks – using advanced acceleration methods provided by graphic

Extreme Hex Jumping

For those of you unfamiliar with this term (that is pretty much everyone) – this is the new sport of throwing yourself out of a perfectly good aeroplane and then performing a forensic hex-dump on a mobile phone in mid-air.

To GUI or not to GUI?

by Chris Hargreaves "During the last two weeks I have spent a disproportionate amount of time staring at a command prompt. This has been for a couple of reasons, which will be mentioned later in this article. What was interesting

PeerLab review

A review of PeerLab by Jonathan Krause is now online here. Please use this thread for discussion of the review.

Forensic Focus prize awarded at Cranfield University

An annual award sponsored by Forensic Focus available to those studying at the Centre for Forensic Computing at Cranfield University was recently awarded for the first time. The prize, consisting of a trophy and cash sum, is awarded to the

PFIC 2010 registration now open

Paraben has announced that full conference registration, including labs, is open for PFIC 2010, November 7-10 in Park City, Utah. PFIC 2010 will feature new lab tracks, an added a vendor showcase room for live demonstrations, and more opportunities for

Katana Forensics Releases Lantern 1.0.6

Katana Forensics has announced the release of Lantern 1.0.6. This version delivers support for iOS4 and the iPhone 4 device. Lantern 1.0.6 also fixes extracting images from iPads, GUI and Logging enhancements. Lantern is available at www.katanaforensics.com or Teel Technologies.

Android support added to F-Response

F-Response http://www.f-response.com has added support for the Android OS to its arsenal of forensic tools. This provides examiners with the possibility of examining embedded devices such as tablets, media players, and mobile phones that use this OS. More info here

UK seeks next generation of cyber security specialists

A national competition has been launched to find the next generation of UK cyber security specialists. The Cyber Security Challenge will put entrants through a series of online and face-to-face competitions to assess their abilities. The prizes on offer include

Violating Web Site Rules Not A Crime

A U.S. District Court judge on Tuesday ruled that it’s not a criminal act to violate the Terms of Service of a Web site, a decision hailed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The case, Facebook v. Power Ventures, arose because

Skills, secrecy the hallmark of officers who pursue sex criminals

Lt. Jeff Weible and his staff are fond of secrecy. Their job requires intense secrecy and special skills, mostly with computers, sometimes with acting, always with the pursuit of sex criminals in mind. His most experienced detective, Jennifer Wright, is