1st September 2026

Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference Returns To San Diego October 20–22, 2026
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Join the DFIR community in San Diego, October 20–22, 2026, for the Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference - three days of expert-led education, emerging technologies, hands-on insights, and valuable industry networking....

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Belkasoft X 2.12 Introduces Offline Translation For DFIR Investigations

Belkasoft X 2.12 Introduces Offline Translation For DFIR Investigations

31st August 2026

Belkasoft previews offline translation in Belkasoft X. BelkaGPT will translate chats, SMS, and artifact text in more than 100 languages, entirely on the examiner machine....read more

Walk A Mile In Their Shoes: The Hidden World Of The Digital Forensic Investigator

Walk A Mile In Their Shoes: The Hidden World Of The Digital Forensic Investigator

27th August 2026

What happens when disturbing material in a CSAM investigation has to be read, not viewed? Paul Gullon-Scott examines the psychological impact of messages, descriptions and AI prompts on digital forensic investigators....read more

How Semantics 21 Are Using Global Intelligence To Pre-Categorise Up To 70% Of Investigations

How Semantics 21 Are Using Global Intelligence To Pre-Categorise Up To 70% Of Investigations

26th August 2026

No case should remain an island. S21 VisionX connects investigators to more than 3.7 billion contributed records, helping surface cross-case intelligence, reduce repeat review and bring critical connections forward faster....read more

Backbone Announces High Speed Real-Time Steganography Detection System

Backbone Security has announced the availability of a 1Gbps version of their network security appliance for detecting insider use of digital steganography to steal sensitive information. The Steganography Analyzer Real-time Scanner, StegAlyzerRTS, developed in Backbone’s Steganography Analysis and Research Center

So you want to be a computer forensics expert

A forensic pathologist is a medical doctor first, who then specializes in pathology, with forensics being a subspecialty. Similarly, a forensic accountant has a broad education in general accounting principles before focusing on the legal field. Ideally, then, a computer

Security Researcher, CyberCrime Foe Goes Missing

A well-known security researcher and cybercrime foe appears to have gone missing in Bulgaria and is feared harmed, according to a news organization that hosts a blog the researcher co-writes. Bulgarian researcher Dancho Danchev, who writes for ZDNet’s Zero Day

OMG! Cops Can Read R Texts

Think again before texting about that drug deal you just made, because police will be able to read all about it if you get arrested. And they won’t need a warrant. The California Supreme Court ruled in San Francisco Monday

Facebook used in hunt for Jo Yeates’ killer

Detectives have begun a Facebook campaign in a bid to catch the killer of Jo Yeates. Her body was found on Christmas Day, in Longwood Lane, Failand, eight days after she was reported missing from her home in Clifton, Bristol.

Hackers crack open mobile network

Mobile calls and texts made on any GSM network can be eavesdropped upon using four cheap phones and open source software, say security researchers. Karsten Nohl and Sylvain Munaut demonstrated their eavesdropping toolkit at the Chaos Computer Club Congress (CCC)

American charged with hacking after snooping on wife’s emails

A Michigan man has been charged under anti-hacking legislation designed to protect trade secrets after logging on to his wife’s email account and discovering she was having an affair. Leon Walker, 33, faces a trial lawyers say could have significant

Merry Christmas to all members!

Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you’re all having a good time and enjoying a well deserved rest! Best wishes, Jamie

Resurrecting Deadbeats

by Craig Ball "An op-ed piece in the New York Times called Begging for Your Pay describes the humiliating ordeal of freelancers forced to hound clients to recover thousands of dollars of compensation. It brings to mind the occasional posts

Pre-Emptive Digital Forensics Research

by Chris Hargreaves "In August 2010 it was announced that Google Wave would not be continuing as a stand-alone product, having been available to the general public for just 2-3 months. In that time period, it is unlikely that much

Students: How to secure a Computer Forensics work placement

by David Sullivan "Securing a work placement is a key part of most Computer Forensics (CF) degrees. In my experience recruiting in this area, successfully completing a placement greatly increases the chances of gaining a full time job in CF

Paraben Releases P2 Commander v1.7

Paraben has released a new version of P2 Commander. Version 1.7 now supports Mac file format as well as vmWare and VirtualPC images. Users will notice a huge increase in the speed of processing evidence in v1.7. Current subscriptions holders

FBI ‘planted backdoor’ in OpenBSD?

Allegations that the FBI may have smuggled back doors or weaknesses into openBSD’s cryptography have created uproar in the security community. Former government contractor Gregory Perry, who helped develop the OpenBSD crypto framework a decade ago, claims that contractors were

ChromeOS means losing control of data, warns GNU founder

Google’s new cloud computing ChromeOS looks like a plan “to push people into careless computing” by forcing them to store their data in the cloud rather than on machines directly under their control, warns Richard Stallman, founder of the Free