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2nd November 2026

How Detego Global’s AI Technology Is Transforming Child Abuse Investigations
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Discover how AI-powered digital forensics is helping investigators accelerate child abuse investigations, identify critical evidence faster, safeguard victims, and reduce exposure to distressing content with Detego Global’s advanced technology....

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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

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

Scalability: A Big Headache

by Dominik Weber"Scalability is simply the ability of our forensic tools and processes to perform on larger data sets. We have all witnessed the power of Moore's law. Hard drives are getting bigger and bigger. A 2 TB SATA hard

Single Sign On

by Si Biles"Calling something a “Holy Grail” is an interesting term – the intended meaning is well known to most of us – i.e. something miraculous that will solve all of your problems. However given that it’s supposedly a cup,

Guidance Intros Forensics For Live Control Systems

Guidance Software announced Wednesday that it’s created the first-ever approach to conducting computer forensics on live industrial control and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems. The company said that the benefit of its new program would be to help

Paraben Corporation Announces Release of the iRecovery Stick

Paraben Corporation has announced the release of the first consumer tool for recovering deleted data from iPhones. The iRecovery Stick recovers user data, both active and deleted, such as deleted text (SMS) messages, deleted contacts, and deleted calendar items, from