7th August 2025

The Balance Between Digital Forensic Examiners And Digital Evidence Technicians: Expertise Vs. Efficiency
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Can digital forensic labs cut backlogs without cutting corners? Debbie Garner explores how tiered workflows using both examiners and technicians can strike the right balance....

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Forensic Focus Digest, August 08 2025

Forensic Focus Digest, August 08 2025

8th August 2025

Discover what’s new on Forensic Focus – explore the balance between expertise and efficiency in digital forensics, tackle the challenges of multi-jurisdictional investigations, and learn how transforming organisational culture can improve mental health in the field....read more

More Than Software: Amped Training Teaches You The Science Of Forensic Video And Image Analysis

More Than Software: Amped Training Teaches You The Science Of Forensic Video And Image Analysis

7th August 2025

Push past button-clicking—Amped Software training teaches the science behind forensic video analysis....read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 06 2025

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 06 2025

6th August 2025

Read the latest DFIR news – starting a digital forensic business, Hashcat v7.0.0, GenAI incident response guidance, cross-border investigation challenges, and more....read more

Targeted Collections: Balancing Legal Precision And Data Privacy

In this installment of our series exploring the transformative power of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) architecture in the legal landscape, we delve deep into the art of targeted collections. This crucial component of modern legal data management not only complements our previous

MediaTek Device Extraction With Boot ROM Interface Disabled

by Christoffer Maliniemi, Security Researcher, MSAB Finding that you have a MediaTek device which has its Boot ROM interface disabled land on your desk? Access to MediaTek’s Boot ROM interface is the best way to extract the maximum amount of

Event Recap: Security BSides London 2023

by Si Biles, co-host of the Forensic Focus podcast Venue The venue was the Novotel Hotel and conference centre in Hammersmith, and for me at least, this was gratefully welcomed, with underground parking that was convenient to access and which you

The Pitfalls Of Relying On iTunes Backups For Investigations

In the realm of mobile forensics, iTunes backups have long been a common method for extracting data from iOS devices. However, the increasing sophistication of mobile devices and the evolving landscape of digital evidence have exposed the limitations of iTunes

Featured Job: MSAB Junior Sales Coordinator (Reading, UK)

Employer MSAB Location Reading Job Description Junior Sales Coordinator is a core business function to support the continued growth and on-going management & retention of customers across the United Kingdom & Ireland. The role has responsibilities across the following areas:

Leveraging SaaS To Power Mobile Data Collections

Cellebrite Enterprise Solutions has launched a new SaaS product called Endpoint Mobile Now, which allows for remote targeted collection of mobile data. The SaaS solution eliminates the complexity of traditional enterprise-level mobile data collection by providing a simple and scalable

Featured Job: MSAB Account Executive (UK)

Employer MSAB Location Hybrid Job Description As an Account Executive, you play a crucial role in driving MSAB’s growth in the UK & Ireland, where you will be focusing on increasing sales revenue and expanding the customer base. The position

Passware Kit 2024v1: Redesigned Distributed Password Recovery

Efficiently distributing password recovery tasks across high-performance hardware clusters stands out as a crucial feature that helps computer forensics decrypt electronic evidence in the shortest possible time. In its latest release of the year, Passware prioritizes the enhancement of this

Supercharge Your Investigations With Mobile Ultra

Investigative teams face a growing challenge in today’s fast-paced, data-driven world: how to keep up with the ever-increasing volume and complexity of digital evidence. The sheer volume of data stored on mobile devices, coupled with the sophistication of encryption and

Digital Forensics Round-Up, December 14 2023

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Meta Plans to Add Encryption to Messenger, Stoking a Privacy Debate The move is part of an effort to make the app more like WhatsApp and iMessage. Law enforcement authorities

Tips And Tricks For Collecting Employee Chat Data

Monica Harris, Product Business Manager at Cellebrite Enterprise Solutions, discusses tips and tricks for collecting employee chat data. She highlights the increasing importance of collecting data from mobile devices, particularly chat data, which has surpassed email data collection.

Focus Investigations With MITRE ATT&CK Insights

Integrate Automated Evidence Analysis and Mapping to Your Investigations Understanding an attacker’s behavior and their tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) is vitally important to any investigation – it provides critical context that allows for more efficient and effective investigations. This

MSAB: Updates From The Frontline

An insightful webinar featuring industry experts, Adam Firman (Tech Evangelist, MSAB) and Simon Crawley (Senior Professional Services Consultant, MSAB). In the webinar, they provide a comprehensive overview of why you need a frontline environment for your mobile forensic solution and