24th September 2026

Corrobora – Cross-Artifact Consistency Analysis For Windows Digital Forensics
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Dielle De Noon explores the development and validation of two key components of her open-source Windows digital forensics framework and how they lay the foundation for future cross-artifact correlation....

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Go Beyond The Basics With XRY Kiosk From MSAB

Go Beyond The Basics With XRY Kiosk From MSAB

25th September 2026

Go beyond the basics with XRY Kiosk - extract logical, full file system, physical and RAM data through controlled, compliant workflows built for fast frontline forensics....read more

How Semantics 21 Is Calling Time On Add-On Culture In Digital Forensics

How Semantics 21 Is Calling Time On Add-On Culture In Digital Forensics

23rd September 2026

Investigative capability shouldn’t be split across licences, modules and bolt-ons - S21 VisionX brings visual review, prioritisation and victim identification into one intelligence-led platform....read more

Magnet Forensics Expands Collaboration With NCMEC To Strengthen Victim Identification

Magnet Forensics Expands Collaboration With NCMEC To Strengthen Victim Identification

22nd September 2026

Coming soon to Magnet Griffeye: new capabilities will enable investigators to securely share CSAM-related files, hashes and investigative information directly with NCMEC, helping streamline workflows and support faster child victim identification....read more

SC Suite v4.3 Released

A new version of SC Suite is now available. Version 4.3 includes more tools to analyse and extract information from a variety of file types and utilities to assist in every day tasks. Continuing user feedback has resulted in the

UK police forces come together to create new regional surveillance units

Britain’s police forces are forming regional surveillance units with the power to carry out covert and intrusive investigations. Detectives believe the groups will make it easier for the authorities to bug computers, break into properties and interfere with wireless internet

Cyber Security Challenge competitions begin this week

Cyber security professionals will compete over the next few days to prove their capabilities in the QinetiQ Network Defence competition, as the Cyber Security Challenge gets into full swing. The virtual stage of the QinetiQ Network Defence competition and the

Bahamas police receive digital forensics equipment from US Dept of State

The US Embassy’s acting deputy chief of Mission Bradley Lynn and regional security officer Derrick Boyd presented a Mac Book Pro computer forensics laptop package valued at more than $14,000 to the Royal Bahamas Police Force’s Central Detective Unit. The

Studying the web’s impact on sex offenders

Law enforcement agencies and psychologists are debating the relationship between the availability of the material online and those who are interested in it. Dr Ethel Quayle, a lecturer in clinical psychology at the University of Edinburgh said that studies have

Dropbox Forensics

by Frank McClain A write-up about some forensic aspects of online storage/file-synching service Dropbox™ Cloud-based services are becoming more prevalent, and not just for businesses – end- and home-users are taking advantage of opportunities to automate backups, make files available

Standard Units in Digital Forensics

by Dr Chris Hargreaves Lecturer at the Centre for Forensic Computing at Cranfield University in Shrivenham, UK. One of the earliest lectures in the MIT Openware programme in Physics begins with the lecture “Units and Dimensional Analysis”. Units of measurement

PitchLake – a tar pit for scanners

by Simon Biles Founder of Thinking Security Ltd., an Information Security and Risk Management consultancy firm based near Oxford in the UK. We’ve had two bank holidays in a row here in the UK – first off for Easter, then

How to Create an Open Source Network Forensics Appliance

By Ondrej Krehel Chief information security officer at Identity Theft 911 [email protected] IntroductionEncryption and anti-forensics attacker techniques are commonly encountered in incident response investigations, while the power of network forensics intelligence is often overlooked by busy IT and legal departments.

The Grid for Crime Prevention (G4CP) in Wales

by Sian Haynes and Stilianos Vidalis University of Wales, Newport Fujitsu is set to bring high-performance computing (HPC) to Wales. They will provide a distributed grid which is a project set over five-years costing up to £40 million. The grid

The End of Digital Forensics?

by Craig Ball When Microsoft introduced its Encrypting File System (EFS) in Windows 2000, the Cassandras of computer forensics peppered the listserves with predictions that the days of digital forensics were numbered. Ten years on and hundreds of systems acquired,

Evaluating Mobile Telephone Connection Behaviour – Part 2

The Basics of Evaluating Connection Records by Sam Raincock, IT and telecommunications expert witness Connection RecordsWithin the UK, details of past telephone connections are stored by the network providers. The minimum storage is advised by the Data Retention (EC Directive)

Biles’ Hierarchy of Disaster Recovery Needs

by Simon Biles Having failed to keep up with my New Year’s resolution of being more organised (the observant of you might have noticed the absence of a February column), it’s nice to be able to move into a new

The Question Of Cyber Terrorism

by Robert Murrill [email protected] Executive Summary This paper will take a look at Cyber terrorism and explaining what it is and what it isn’t by showing how closely related Cyber Terrorism and Cyber Warfare are. Although the affects of both

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