31st August 2026

Belkasoft X 2.12 Introduces Offline Translation For DFIR Investigations
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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....

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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

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 26 2026

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 26 2026

26th August 2026

Read the latest DFIR news - OpenAI forensic artifacts, Apple Screen Time evidence, RAM-based location analysis, AI-assisted investigations, forensic imaging bottlenecks, and more....read more

Paraben Corporation offers free version of P2 Shuttle

Paraben Corporation has announced the release of P2 Shuttle FREE as the latest addition to their lineup of Enterprise-level digital forensic technology. P2 Shuttle FREE is a specialized tool that can perform a live forensic exam over a network or

Software could have covered CP accused doctor’s tracks

Software used on a doctor’s computer could have been used to cover his tracks if he was downloading CP, a court has heard. Douglas Harris, 29, deleted 16,000 files by using a window washer programme on his home computer in

Paraben Corporation releases Link2 software product (free download)

Paraben Corporation, a provider of digital forensics solutions, has announced the release of Paraben’s Link2; a link analysis tool for Digital Forensics investigations. Born out of the frustrations and feedback of investigators, Paraben Corporation developed Link2 as a simple way

USPTO Awards Key Patent to ADF Solutions for Digital Forensics

ADF Solutions, Inc., a provider of forensic triage tools for computers and peripherals, has announced that it has been granted a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office pertaining to methods of searching forensic data. The patent has critical

Podcast: Review Of SANS FOR408 Course

"In this episode, I discuss a few news items and I review the SANS Forensic 408 course that I recently attended at SANS SecWest in San Diego. Also, I talk about the upcoming SANS Forensic & Incident Response Summit being

Digital Forensics Certification Board (DFCB) announces online applications

The Digital Forensics Certification Board (DFCB), an independent certifications organization for digital evidence examiners, today announced plans to launch a fully automated application process to keep up with the demand for this significant certification. On March 2nd, 2009, the DFCB

Met lab claims ‘biggest breakthrough since Watergate’

Police scientists have hailed a new technique that recently played a pivotal role in securing a murder conviction as the most significant development in audio forensics since Watergate. The capability, called “electrical network frequency analysis” (ENF), is now attracting interest

New AccessData Mobile Phone Forensics Field Tablet Device to Be Showcased

AccessData has announced that it will be giving computer forensics investigators a sneak peek at its new “Mobile Phone Examiner Plus” (“MPE +”) touch screen field tablet. AccessData partner, Mobile Forensics, Inc (MFI), will be showcasing the product at the

Interview with Sam Raincock, SRC

An interview with Sam Raincock of SRC is now online at http://www.forensicfocus.com/sam-raincock-interview-300510. Many thanks to Sam for her time and her thoughtful responses, the interview is sure to be of interest to both those currently working in the field and

Passware Kit Accelerates Distributed Password Cracking

Passware, Inc., a provider of password recovery, decryption, and electronic evidence discovery software for corporations and law enforcement organizations, has announced Passware Kit 10, the first commercially available software to accelerate distributed password recovery using both graphics processing units (GPUs)

CodeSuite 4.0 Adds CodeCLOC™ for Measuring Source Code Changes Over Time

Software Analysis & Forensic Engineering Corporation has announced the release of CodeSuite 4.0. Several improvements have been made to the existing suite of tools including CodeCLOC for measuring how software evolves across versions of code. The CodeCLOC algorithms were developed

Sleuth Kit & Mac OS X Forensics

The Apple Examiner has posted an article written to show the power of Brian Carrier’s Sleuth Kit in creating timelines with HFS+ file systems. The Sleuth Kit includes several command line utilities that can give in-depth looks into many different

Forensic 4cast Awards

The second annual Forensic 4cast Awards will be held as part of the SANS Forensic Summit in Washington DC on Thursday July 8 2010 at 7:30pm. This event will be held in front of a live audience full of digital

Avoiding common job application errors – questions please!

I’m delighted to announce that computer forensics recruitment specialist David Sullivan has agreed to become a regular columnist here at Forensic Focus. David has asked for any questions related to his first piece, “Avoiding common job application errors”, to be

Access Data FTK v3 & Macintosh Forensics

The Apple Examiner has posted an article written by Brian Salmon showing the new features of Access Data’s latest release of FTK and how it applies to analyzing Macintosh data. The entire article can be read at http://www.AppleExaminer.com