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

Personal Branding for Digital Forensics Jobseekers

by David Sullivan Looking at the job adverts here on Forensic Focus shows that after a really sluggish period the number of vacancies available in computer forensics and electronic disclosure is increasing. Many forensics professionals who would normally have changed

Geotags: Friend or Foe?

by David Benford Director, Blackstage Forensics I recently wrote a research paper, “Geotag Data: The Modification of Evidence on the Apple iPhone”, based around the possibility of modifying geotag evidence on the Apple iPhone. A test was performed as part

Is the NTSB a model for incident response?

by Sean McLinden Recently, the events surrounding the defacement of the HBGary Web site and publication of sensitive data were being bantered about on a number of forensic, security and incident response sites. As is typical for these kind of

I’m here! Now what?

by Ken Pryor Working for a small police department in a rural area, my opportunities to do digital forensic work on real cases are much fewer and farther between than those who work in large departments or in the private

Challenges of Smart Phone Forensics

by Rob Adams ACE, CDIA+ SALIX Mobile devices have become an essential component of our daily lives. These devices keep us connected and act as so much more than the cell phones and portable music players of the 1990’s. It

2010 report of digital forensic standards, processes and accuracy measurement

Joshua Isaac James, Pavel Gladyshev {Joshua.James, Pavel.Gladyshev}@UCD.ie Centre for Cybercrime Investigation University College Dublin Belfield, Dublin 4 Ireland 1. Introduction From December 7th 2010 to December 12th 2010 a survey on Digital Investigation Process and Accuracy was conducted in an

Four arrested in the Netherlands in FBI cyber attack probe

Four people have been arrested in the Netherlands as part of an FBI-led investigation into computer hacking, according to US media reports. Sixteen people have been picked up in the US and one, aged 16, in Britain, the reports say.

My cat did it – honest, Guv!

and he did it via remote access… by Sam Raincock, IT and telecommunications expert witness When evaluating computer forensics cases the tricky part is often not just evaluating what is found but determining how it came to reside there. “It

Side channel attacks

by Simon Biles Founder of Thinking Security Ltd., an Information Security and Risk Management consultancy firm based near Oxford in the UK Forensics is all about evidence, but the trick is knowing where to find it! Locard’s exchange principle effectively

Digital Forensics and ‘self-tracking’

by Dr Chris Hargreaves, lecturer at the Centre for Forensic Computing at Cranfield University in Shrivenham, UK This month’s article is based very loosely around a recent 5-minute talk from Gary Wolf (link here) which explores the concept of ‘self-tracking’

It’s not always what you find…

by Sam Raincock, IT and telecommunications expert witness In digital forensics we are often asked to determine the presence of evidence. However, what happens when we do not find anything? How do we prove something wasn’t there? Proving something is

A cloud by any other name…

by Simon Biles Founder of Thinking Security Ltd., an Information Security and Risk Management consultancy firm based near Oxford in the UK. “You have to know the past to understand the present” – Dr. Carl SaganIf you have been kind

How to seduce your (potential) computer forensics employer

by David Sullivan We all over-complicate things and this is certainly true when seeking a new job. Essentially, to be successful at a Computer Forensics interview you just need to demonstrate two things:1. You have the technical skills needed to

Windows Search forensics

Analyzing the Windows (Desktop) Search Extensible Storage Engine database by Joachim Metz [email protected] Summary 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