8th July 2026

From Inaccessible To Actionable: How Punjab Police Recovered Critical Evidence From Feature Phones
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When critical evidence is locked inside feature phones or ultra-compact devices, MSAB helps investigators go further — enabling advanced mobile extraction and analysis where other forensic tools may fall short....

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CCTV Review Has Evolved. Have You? Introducing S21 CCTV v2.0

CCTV Review Has Evolved. Have You? Introducing S21 CCTV v2.0

7th July 2026

Cut through hours of CCTV, body-worn and dashcam footage in minutes with S21 CCTV v2.0 — AI-powered, offline and secure video review built to help investigators find what matters faster....read more

Cumulative Trauma In Digital Forensics And Policing With Ben Dimmock

Cumulative Trauma In Digital Forensics And Policing With Ben Dimmock

7th July 2026

Ben Dimmock discusses psychological safety, trauma exposure, and the long-term emotional toll of working in policing and digital forensics....read more

From Hours To Minutes: How New Jersey State Police Transformed Digital Evidence Triage

From Hours To Minutes: How New Jersey State Police Transformed Digital Evidence Triage

6th July 2026

See how the New Jersey State Police ICAC Unit used ADF Pro to cut on-scene mobile device triage from hours to as little as 30 minutes, reduce unnecessary seizures by 60–70%, and keep investigations moving when every minute counts....read more

Publishing articles at Forensic Focus

Forensic Focus is always keen to publish articles, papers or blog posts of interest to the digital forensics community. Articles are published not only online but also included in the monthly newsletter (sent to over 12,00 subscribers) and promoted via

New CESG initiative builds on IISP Skills Framework

As part of the UK Government’s investment in cyber security, a consortium comprising the IISP (Institute of Information Security Professionals), CREST (Council for Registered Ethical Security Testers) and Royal Holloway’s Information Security Group (ISG) has been appointed by CESG to

What is “good enough” information security?

by Simon Biles "I have, occasionally in the past, mentored people in (on?) Information Security – once for money (this is not a revenue stream that I’ve mastered by any stretch of the imagination!), but more often than not, informally

What is “good enough” information security?

by Simon Biles I have, occasionally in the past, mentored people in (on?) Information Security – once for money (this is not a revenue stream that I’ve mastered by any stretch of the imagination!), but more often than not, informally

2011 European Digital Forensics and Incident Response Summit

SANS Institute has announced its final roster of speakers presenting at the annual European Digital Forensics and Incident Response Summit this September over the 21st and 22nd at the Thistle Hotel Marble Arch. SANS has added Andrew Sheldon, a pioneer

Cyber Crime: Big, but not Bigger than Drugs

An attention-grabbing report by an Internet security company plays with figures to declare that cyber crime is bigger than drug trafficking, but the numbers don’t add up. The report from security firm Norton estimates the size of cyber crime last

13 Percent of Brits are ‘Casual Hackers’

Hacking and computer crime are not just the business of shady, anonymous criminals in lawless underground forums; according to new research, 13 percent of the British have admitted to ‘casual’ hacking: accessing someone else’s online account details without their permission.

NYU-Poly CSAW High School Forensics Competition

High School Cyber Forensics Challengehttp://www.poly.edu/csaw2011/csaw-forensicsPolytechnic Institute of New York UniversityRegistration is now OPENChallenge Begins: Wednesday September 21, 2011Challenge Submission Deadline: Monday October 24, 2011 @ 5:00PM ESTFinalists announced: Friday, October 28, 2011Finals in NYC: Thursday November 10-11, 2011Tonight, the cast

Integreon Announces Enhanced Seek & Collect v2.0 E-discovery Appliances

Integreon today announced an enhanced version of its Seek & Collect service and appliances. Seek & Collect efficiently captures electronically stored information (ESI) from remote locations in a forensically sound manner without the need for physical collection by forensic experts.

Paraben Device Seizure v4.5 Released

Paraben has released Device Seizure v4.5. This new version adds support for new models including the latest versions of iOS and Android phones. What’s New: * Added support for iOS 4.3.3 and 4.3.5 * Added support for 35 new phones

Google History Forensics

by Craig Ball In my last Forensic Focus column, I touched on migration to handhelds and the cloud, mushrooming drive capacities and encryption-by-default as just some of the factors auguring the eventual extinction of conventional digital forensics. But an end

Time and Forensics

by Simon Biles Time fascinates me, it has an amazing history and it has some great “toys”. One of my favourite quotes of all time is from Groucho Marx: “Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.” I

Belkasoft Evidence Center 3.0

Belkasoft announces a major upgrade to its flagship forensic product, Belkasoft Evidence Center. The new version 3.0 adds picture and video support, enabling forensic investigators to run automated searches for images and video footage containing people’s faces or pornographic content.

Thomas Cannon and Jonathan Zdziarski join viaForensics

viaForensics, a firm providing expert services and products for mobile security and forensics, has announced that it has named US iPhone expert Jonathan Zdziarski and UK Android expert Thomas Cannon to its research and development arm. Both researchers are respected

Digital forensics: The inside story

Jelle Niemantsverdriet is the Principal Consultant, Forensics and Investigative Response EMEA, Verizon Business Security Solutions. In this interview he introduces the reader to the world of digital forensics and talks about computer forensics tools, privacy concerns, the fundamental differences in

Obtaining Information from Mobile Devices in Criminal Investigations

by David W. Bennett "Mobile device forensics has expanded significantly over the past few years. Older model mobile phones could store a limited amount of data that could be easily obtained by the forensics investigator. With the development of the