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

SC Suite v4.5 Released.

A new version of SC Suite is available. What’s new: – New tool added, WMDB Extractor for CurrentDatabase_372 v1.0, reads the Windows Media Player database from Windows Media Player 12 on Windows 7, exports to CSV and HTML… – Various

Brit PhD student excels in Pentagon digi-forensics challenge

A computer science student from Lancaster University has become the UK winner of the digital forensics challenge, a global competition designed and hosted by the US Department of Defense. Christopher Richardson (AKA Ikarus) came first in the UK and ninth

Belkasoft releases Evidence Center 2012

Belkasoft has released Evidence Center 2012, a tool which help forensic investigators and security specialists to easily locate and extract Internet evidence such as chats, browser and email info, social network trails, pictures and videos. The product supports multiple analysis

Marshall professor writes digital forensics book

Marshall University Professor John Sammons is an author for the first time. The professor of computer and information technology has written a book – “The Basics of Digital Forensics: The Primer for Getting Started in Digital Forensics” – to be

New website: F-Interviews.com

Yuri Gubanov, an independent forensic expert and the founder of Belkasoft, interviews renowned forensic experts and launches a new forensic portal. The new portal, F-Interviews.com, is dedicated to providing breaking news, up to date information, persona and technology background in

HTCIA Joins Consortium of Digital Forensics Specialists

The International High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA), a professional group of law enforcement, private investigators and corporate security professionals, has joined the Consortium of Digital Forensics Specialists (CDFS) as an Organizational Member. The membership means that HTCIA members, through

DMU Forensic Computing For Practitioners MSc Courses

The Service Police Cyber Crime Centre based at Southwick Park near Portsmouth are in the process of organising with De Montfort University, Professor Brian Jenkinson and Professor Tony Sammes to host the courses detailed below: Foundations of Forensic Computing –

Paraben Releases P2 Commander v2.0

Paraben is pleased to announce the release of P2 Commander v2.0. This new version is a major update offering many new features: What’s New: * Data triage (a snapshot of important sources of evidence such as e-mail databases, chat databases,

Malaysian Forensics Expert recovers data from waterlogged Blackberry

A mobile phone, believed to have been owned by one of four murder victims, including cosmetics millionairess Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya, had received a call from one ‘Datuk Pathma 2’, several hours before they were allegedly killed, the High Court here

EnCase® Certified Examiner program turns 10 this month

Guidance Software, Inc. is celebrating a decade of industry-leading computer forensic industry education and certification, as its EnCase® Certified Examiner (EnCE®) program turns 10 this month. More than 3,300 forensic examiners have earned the EnCE designation worldwide in those 10

Forensic Toolkit v3 Tips and Tricks ― Not on a Budget

by Sean L. Harrington "A couple of weeks ago, Brian Glass posted a very helpful comment, Forensic Toolkit v3 Tips and Tricks — on a Budget. His comment focused on how to “get close to SSD performance on the cheap”

iPhone Tracking – from a forensic point of view

Posted by 4rensiker "iPhoneTracking is sexy! Every mobile forensic suite, at least the ones dealing with iPhones, are providing it proudly. iPhoneTracking also has been a hot topic in the media all around the globe. People stated that there is

Android Forensics Study of Password and Pattern Lock Protection

Posted by Oxygen Software "Let’s see what Pattern Lock is, how to access, determine or even get rid of it? We’ll also speak about Password Lock Protection and find out what it has in common with Pattern Lock. And finally

Skype in eDiscovery

by Stuart Clarke, 7Safe "The EDRM (Electronic Discovery Reference Model) is a widely accepted workflow, which guides those involved in eDiscovery. Typically, the identification and collection phases see email and common office documents harvested, but as technology moves forward is

Forensic Toolkit v3 Tips and Tricks – On a budget

Posted by Brian K. Glass "While researching FTK 3X and Oracle, you just recently discovered that the best configuration of your Oracle database would be on a solid state drive (SSD). Solid state drives give the maximum level of performance