19th August 2025

UPCOMING WEBINAR – Retail Under Siege: Fighting Back Against Ransomware With Next-Gen Forensics
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Retailers face rising cyber threats—join Exterro's Sept 4 webinar to learn fast, modern forensic response strategies and protect your brand....

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Digital Forensics Jobs Round-Up, August 18 2025

Digital Forensics Jobs Round-Up, August 18 2025

18th August 2025

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

Enterprise Turns To AI For Speed And Accuracy In DFIR

Enterprise Turns To AI For Speed And Accuracy In DFIR

14th August 2025

Magnet Forensics explores how AI is revolutionizing speed and accuracy in DFIR....read more

Breaking Digital Barriers: Galaxy S25 & Z Flip Fully Supported

Breaking Digital Barriers: Galaxy S25 & Z Flip Fully Supported

14th August 2025

Gain full filesystem access to the latest Samsung Galaxy devices with MD-NEXT....read more

Resolving MSN Messenger User IDs to email addresses

"A while ago I developed a small piece of software to resolve an MSN Messenger User ID to the email address used to create it and this has been used internally at Kent Police for quite a while. After we

Deleted Data Forensics for Mobiles Phones Wins UK Accreditation

The UK-based digital forensics company, Forensic Telecommunications Services (FTS) has been awarded accreditation to ISO 17025:2005 and, in a UK first, the laboratory has been assessed and granted accreditation for its specialist techniques used in physically recovering deleted data from

Is Breaking CAPTCHA a Crime?

Prosecutors in a New Jersey ticket scalping case are pushing the envelope on the federal computer hacking law, setting a precedent that could make it a felony to violate a website’s terms of service and fool a CAPTCHA, according to

Stealing $10 Million, 20 cents at a time

"On June 28, 2010, the Federal Trade Commission unveiled a law suit againt unknown credit card fraudsters, seizing the assets of 16 companies run by at least fourteen "money mules". Each of these companies was run by a money mule

New Hoffmann Advanced Forensic Sessions November 2010

From 22 – 26 November 2010 Hoffmann Forensic Services will for the third time organize the Advanced Forensic Sessions. These technical sessions are aimed at experienced forensic investigators who want to increase their knowledge of the latest forensic techniques in

New course: Fundamentals & Principles, Mobile Phone Programming

As discussed at the 2009 MTEB Conference, Greg Smith of TrewMTE has today launched “Fundamentals & Principles, Mobile Phone Programming”. Questions answered by the course include: How does the programming language relate to evidence? What does the keypad tell us?

Shadow Analyser speeds digital analysis of recovery files

Researchers at UK computer forensics firm Disklabs have helped develop technology that will drastically speed up the forensic analysis of ‘Volume Shadow Copies’ (VSC) of suspect Windows computers. The introduction of VSC technology in Windows 2003 created a huge headache

Mobile Forensics Training: Investigating Connection Records

This month sees the launch of the Forensic Focus Preferred Training program which aims to highlight the very best digital forensics training available. The first course offered is "Mobile Forensics: Investigating Connection Records" delivered in the UK by Sam Raincock

Windows Search forensics

by Joachim Metz "While some may curse Windows Vista for all its changes, for us forensic investigators it also introduced new interesting 'features'. One is the integration of Windows (Desktop) Search into the operating system. Most corporations have been reluctant

Computer Forensics – sometimes it’s all about timing

by Sam Raincock "When a crime happens, the time of the events may be critical to the legal case. However, how are these times established? Is it the time alleged by the witness? When the CCTV system captured the image?

Tencent QQ 2009/2010 history format recovered

Computer forensics software vendor Belkasoft announced today that it has recovered the new QQ messenger history format. Tencent QQ is the most popular Instant Messenger globally with user base about 1 billion of people and is very widely used in

Radio Tactics Opens Asia Pacific Office

Radio Tactics Ltd, a provider of mobile phone forensics equipment, has announced the official opening of its Australian Office, complementing its existing presence in the UK and USA. The opening of the new office constitutes the next step in an

Police arrest London teenagers in cyber crime swoop

The Metropolitan Police has arrested two London youths for their alleged roles in an international cyber crime forum. The teenagers were picked up yesterday on suspicion of encouraging or assisting crime, unauthorised access under the Computer Misuse Act and conspiracy

Stroz Friedberg Promotes Seth Berman and Erin Nealy Cox

Stroz Friedberg has announced the promotions of Seth P. Berman and Erin Nealy Cox to the position of Executive Managing Director and their appointment to the firm’s Executive Management Group, which sets strategy and policy for the firm…”Our Executive Management