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

Police say IPhones can store a treasure trove of incriminating evidence

A burgeoning field of forensic study deals with iPhones specifically because of their popularity, the demographics of those who own them and what the phone’s technology records during its use. Law-enforcement experts said iPhone technology records a wealth of information

Cybercrime is Rampant Around the World, Says Study

A new study by security vendor Symantec reports that Internet crime has grown into a widespread problem globally. It also provides intriguing insights into consumers’ lax attitudes toward online piracy, plagiarism, and other illegal or unethical activities. The study says

Is Sarah Palin a Computer Criminal?

If Palin and her ghostwriter are in fact violating Facebook’s terms of use, that probably doesn’t seem like a big deal to most people. Just by surfing around the internet, we “agree” to dozens of website terms of use every

Oxygen Forensic Suite 2010 adds support for iTunes 10

The new 2.8.2 release of Oxygen Forensic Suite 2010 adds support for iTunes 10 as well as newest Blackberry and Samsung devices. All registered customers may download the new version immediately from their personal pages, a trial version is available

Please support David Benford running for the Cystinosis Foundation

David Benford from Blackstage Forensics is raising money for the Cystinosis Foundation by running in the Amsterdam Mizuno half marathon on the 17th of October. David’s daughter suffers from Cystinosis, a very rare and serious condition which is as yet

E-Mail Isn’t as Ethereal as You Might Think

At first blush, message headers seem esoteric. Why should a lawyer care about the alphanumeric ID assigned to a message, the message’s offset from Greenwich Mean Time or the names of the servers it traversed before delivery? The answer lies

Computer Forensics Experts, Who’s Your Daddy?

As computer forensics has become increasingly important to civil and criminal trials, certification for computer experts has been a growing business. Today there are a handful of nonprofit and for-profit organizations that offer computer forensic certification programs. However, no one

CSI SQL Server – Methods for collecting digital evidence

Forensic analysis of database systems is very specific and demanding task, and it was the main inspiration for writing this article. In this article you will find information about what digital forensic is and what kind of methods you can

Intro to Report Writing for Digital Forensics

So you’ve just completed your forensic examination and found that forensic gem or smoking gun in your case, so how do you proceed? Depending on where you fall as a forensicator (e.g., law enforcement, intelligence, criminal defense work, incident response,

Insiders Doubt 2008 Pentagon Hack Was Foreign Spy Attack

In the fall of 2008, a variant of a three year-old, relatively-benign worm began winding its way through the U.S. military’s networks, spread by troops using thumb drives and other removable storage media…”Some guys wanted to reach out and touch

High tech crime fighters in Garfield County Sheriff’s Office

When a detective with the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office collects a computer, cell phone, digital camera, thumb drive, or any other technological device that potentially holds evidence pertaining to a case, they take it to one person — Detective Cpl.

‘Web 2.0’ as evidence

by Sean McLinden "In a recent intellectual property case for which we were retained, among the electronically stored information (ESI) that the plaintiff sought for production were internal company blogs and wikis used by the defendant’s developers to discuss new

HBGary Unveils Freeware Tool for Incident Responders, Forensic Practitioners

HBGary has released a new freeware tool, FGET, a network-capable forensic data acquisition tool. FGET simplifies the process of acquiring forensically sound copies of key data on the hard drive, including the prefetch directory, system32\config directory, and all user’s NTUSER.DAT