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2nd November 2026

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AI For Investigations: 5 Myths, Debunked

AI For Investigations: 5 Myths, Debunked

2nd November 2026

Discover the truth behind five common myths about AI in investigations, with real-world insights from investigators using Cellebrite Genesis....read more

Forensic Focus Digest, 30 Oct 2026

Forensic Focus Digest, 30 Oct 2026

30th October 2026

Discover what’s new on Forensic Focus: explore end-to-end digital investigations with Magnet Forensics, meet Matt Goeckel, AI researcher at Cellebrite, learn about the Cellebrite Autumn 2026 Release, and more....read more

How A MacBook With A Broken Screen Helped Convict A UK Property Fraudster: Belkasoft X Case Study

How A MacBook With A Broken Screen Helped Convict A UK Property Fraudster: Belkasoft X Case Study

30th October 2026

A broken MacBook, an iPhone, and a £113,000 fraud case - discover how Belkasoft X helped uncover crucial digital evidence that brought a UK property fraudster to justice....read more

ATC-NY Releases Two New Free Forensics Tools

ATC-NY has just released two free, new forensics tools: Mac Memory Reader and eMule Reader. Mac Memory Reader is a simple command-line utility to capture the contents of physical RAM on a suspect Macintosh computer, letting an investigator gather volatile

Paraben Acquires Project-A-Phone

Paraben Corporation has announced the acquisition of Project-a-Phone, a tool used in the digital forensic industry as well as corporate settings to be able to display and record data from the screen of a mobile device. “We are looking forward

Parents Sue Expert Witness Who Made Fake CP of Their Kids

An Ohio lawyer who serves as an expert witness in CP cases might be on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars in civil damages for Photoshopping courtroom exhibits of children having sex. Attorney Dean Boland purchased innocent pictures

Competition finds next generation of cybersleuths

As an actor, Paul Laverack is used to dealing with fictional crime: he once had a role in a couple of episodes of Stingers, an Australian TV cop show. “I actually played a criminal who was trying to buy a

Guidance Software Brings Digital Forensics to Apple iPad, iPhone 4

Guidance Software, Inc. today announced a new forensic tool for the Apple iPad, iPhone 4 and iPod touch, giving digital investigators the ability to perform forensic analysis and e-discovery on the tablet that one in five Americans plan to buy

SAFE Corporation announces CodeSuite-LT

Software Analysis & Forensic Engineering Corporation (www.SAFE-corp.biz) has announced the release of CodeSuite-LT(R), a “lite” version of CodeSuite offering all of the key functionality for unlimited use over the term of the license.”These days companies are understandably much more cost

Evaluating Mobile Telephone Connection Behaviour – Part 1

by Sam Raincock "In general, all modern mobile telephones contain call information and SMS message storage which may be used as evidence. There may also be a wealth of other evidence available including browser history, sat nav usage etc. However,

Cyberwar? What Cyberwar?

Cyberwar hype is inhibiting government attempts to develop an appropriate response to cybersecurity threats, say computer scientists. A heavyweight study by UK computer scientists for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) concludes that it is “highly unlikely” there

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)