12th August 2025

Well-Being In Digital Forensics And Policing: Insights From Hannah Bailey
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Hannah Bailey shares her journey from frontline policing to founding Blue Light Wellbeing, explaining why culturally-aware mental health support is crucial for DFIs and frontline workers....

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Oxygen Tech Bytes In July 2025

Oxygen Tech Bytes In July 2025

12th August 2025

Level up your DFIR skills in under 20 minutes with Oxygen Tech Bytes’ expert-led, on-demand webinars....read more

Neal Ysart, Co-Founder, The Coalition Of Cyber Investigators

Neal Ysart, Co-Founder, The Coalition Of Cyber Investigators

11th August 2025

Neal Ysart shares how The Coalition of Cyber Investigators tackles OSINT integrity, complex investment fraud, and the rise of AI-driven scams....read more

Forensic Focus Digest, August 08 2025

Forensic Focus Digest, August 08 2025

8th August 2025

Discover what’s new on Forensic Focus – explore the balance between expertise and efficiency in digital forensics, tackle the challenges of multi-jurisdictional investigations, and learn how transforming organisational culture can improve mental health in the field....read more

Fighting crime with a click of a mouse in Thailand

Instead of a pistol, Pol Lt-Col Panya Chaaimtet arms himself with a computer notebook. He is more agile manoeuvring a mouse, hunting for criminals on the internet, than handling a conventional weapon… Pol Lt-Col Panya and Pol Maj Mingmontri work

VidReport from Sanderson Forensics

VidReport from Sanderson Forensics (www.sandersonforensics.com) is a new forensic tool designed to ease the burden on investigators dealing with either large video files or multiple video files. VidReport allows the investigator to create reports based upon the content of a

BlackBag Technologies Relocates Silicon Valley Corporate Headquarters

BlackBag Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of computer forensic and electronic discovery solutions, today announced the relocation of its worldwide headquarters to 300 Piercy Road in San Jose, California. The move follows the Company’s 5th anniversary and continued growth of

White Paper: Selecting a Computer Forensic Expert

As digital evidence continues to become more common in litigation, so has the need for computer forensic experts. In some situations the success or failure of the entire case might be driven by the findings provided to the litigating attorney

Deep inside the Serious Fraud Office’s digital forensics unit

Deep inside London’s legal quarter, a camera is fastened tightly over the latest mobile device, scrutinising every move the Serious Fraud Office is taking in its digital forensics unit. There is no room for error. If the unit’s forensic scientists

Guidance Software Launches Online Training Program

Guidance Software Inc. today announced the launch of its EnCase® On Demand training program which grants online access to the company’s courses in enterprise investigations (internal investigations, eDiscovery) and forensic investigations (law enforcement, fraud). The program’s inaugural offerings—EnCase Computer Forensics

F-Response to be bundled with X-Ways Software Technology AG’s X-Ways Forensics

Agile Risk Management LLC announces today that an agreement has been reached with X-Ways Software Technology AG to allow the reselling and bundling of Agile’s F-Response Remote Forensics software with X-Ways Forensics, X-Ways’s premier computer forensic application…X-Ways Forensics (www.x-ways.com) is

New versions of Oxygen Forensic programs

New versions of Oxygen Forensic programs have been released. Oxygen Forensic v2.17.5 for Nokia and Vertu phones: Licensing – Oxygen Forensic for Nokia and Vertu phones is now included in Oxygen Forensic Suite 2 package.Calendar – Added possibility of tasks

Vere Software Launches WebCase

WebCase(TM), the flagship product of Vere Software, enables law enforcement, corporations and government agencies to collect, preserve and present, from the Internet, evidentiary data including web captures, video recording, TCP/IP collection, image captures, keystroke logging and chat collection… More (VereSoftware)

Fresh New Face for Forensics Tool

A lot of IT professionals who get started with forensics see graphical forensic applications like Encase and Forensic Toolkit (FTK), and they get turned off when they see that the Sleuth Kit is a collection of command-line utilities. While there

Video of detective detailing Entwistle computer searches

A computer forensic expert continued testimony Wednesday in the Neil Entwistle murder trial. Police detective Lawrence James discussed with he found during a search of Entwistle’s laptop computer. Lawrence James told a Middlesex Superior Court jury yesterday that Entwistle did

Man Cleared of CP Charges After Hiring Computer Forensics Expert

[Here’s an article with more technical details on this earlier story – Jamie] Here’s a lesson for computer neophytes – when you get accused of having CP on your computer, subsequently get fired, lose your friends and family and face

How To Take Back Control Of The Discovery Process And Control Litigation Costs

For in-house attorneys, the costs of discovery rise when Electronically Stored Information (ESI) is uncontrolled. The objective of the litigation readiness process is to make sure that the IT professionals and the legal professionals, who certainly speak different languages, understand

Malware not man blamed in child abuse download case

A Department of Industrial Accidents investigator has been cleared of CP possession charges after a forensic investigation revealed that malware was to blame for depraved smut on his company laptop. Michael Fiola, 53, of Rhode Island, went through a massive