7th July 2026

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Cumulative Trauma In Digital Forensics And Policing With Ben Dimmock

Cumulative Trauma In Digital Forensics And Policing With Ben Dimmock

7th July 2026

Ben Dimmock discusses psychological safety, trauma exposure, and the long-term emotional toll of working in policing and digital forensics....read more

From Hours To Minutes: How New Jersey State Police Transformed Digital Evidence Triage

From Hours To Minutes: How New Jersey State Police Transformed Digital Evidence Triage

6th July 2026

See how the New Jersey State Police ICAC Unit used ADF Pro to cut on-scene mobile device triage from hours to as little as 30 minutes, reduce unnecessary seizures by 60–70%, and keep investigations moving when every minute counts....read more

Forensic Focus Digest, July 03 2026

Forensic Focus Digest, July 03 2026

3rd July 2026

Discover what’s new on Forensic Focus – explore digital evidence investigations with David Shipley, deepfake image analysis with Amped Software, RAID forensics with Atola Technology, Cellebrite’s journey to Genesis, and more....read more

SANS Releases Free Investigative Forensic Toolkit

A free tool is changing the way digital forensic professionals perform detailed examinations. The SANS Investigative Forensic Toolkit (SIFT) Workstation 2.0, created by Rob Lee, is the first of its kind – an online virtualized workstation environment to show that

EviGator Digital Forensics release TAG View

TAG View is a free application that allows the Forensic Examiner to view EXIF Data and Geo-Tags embedded within digital images. TAG View uses Google Maps to display maps of coordinates that are embedded within images and allows the examiner

Passware Kit Forensic Decrypts TrueCrypt Hard Disks in Minutes

Passware, Inc., a provider of password recovery, decryption, and evidence discovery software for computer forensics, has announced that the latest version of its flagship product, Passware Kit Forensic, has become the first commercially available software to break TrueCrypt hard drive

IFFEE and DoJEE

April 1st sees the announcement of two new organisations for digital forensics professionals. The International Federation of Forensic Examiners in Europe (IFFEE) and the Department of Justice Expert Examiners (DoJEE) group in the US both aim to provide practitioners with

A High Tech Synergy to Managing the Cyber-sex Offender

Searching a computer can detect noncompliance, including new law violations, that occurred days or even years before the search. The most basic search or preview takes a quick look at the computer on site to determine if there are any

Copyright contravention and the modification of games consoles

by Dan Gaskell "The Copyright Design and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA) was amended by Statutory Instrument on 31 October 2003 through the introduction of the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003. The driving force behind this was an EC Directive

How to Handle Hard Drives in Government Probe

Although there is plenty of ­guidance in case law and in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure regarding court-supervised electronic discovery, companies responding to government requests find themselves on a journey without a road map. In the absence of court

Logicube Announces Networkable Digital Forensic Storage Solution

Logicube® Inc. has announced a new addition to its line of forensic data capture solutions. The MPFS™ (Massive Portable Forensic Storage) solution is the first storage device designed specifically for the digital forensic market. The MPFS provides up to 8TB

Applying medical diagnostic principles to digital forensics

by Sean McLinden "Traditionally, computer forensics begins with the seizure of all possible evidence then test, test, test until either you find something or you decide that there is nothing to be found. To paraphrase an example attributed to Rob

What is this field called anyway?

by Chris Hargreaves "In this series of articles I hope to explore some of the issues in forensic computing from an academic perspective, which will hopefully complement the perspectives from other columnists in the corporate, legal and software development fields.

Computer forensics tool for banks aims to trace Trojans

Transaction security firm Trusteer has launched a remote forensics service designed to allow banks to diagnose if a client’s PC has been infected with malware following incidents of suspected fraud. The Flashlight service is designed to allow strains of malware

Dominik Weber: Thoughts on forensic software development

"Working late on a Thursday night in an otherwise pretty empty building, I pause for a moment while the debugger is stopped at a breakpoint. I am thinking of the big difference between doing it right and just making it

New Feature: Forensic Focus Columnists

Forensic Focus is delighted to announce that this month sees the start of regular columns written by some of the most knowledgeable and experienced professionals in the computer forensics industry and related fields. Aiming to cover a broad range of

Cyber crime losses in US almost ‘double’ during 2009

US losses to online crime almost doubled during 2009, reveals a report. Losses totalled $560m (£371m) in 2009, up from $265m (£176m) in 2008, showed the annual report by the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)… More (BBC)

Police launch new high-tech mobile phone unit in Kent, UK

Sim card specialists will aid the technological tussle with crime following the formation of a new mobile phone unit at Kent Police. Officers throughout the county can now access deleted text messages, photographs and more in-house, saving the force an