6th July 2026

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

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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

Passware Kit Mobile 2026v4 Decrypts Qualcomm-Based Samsung S20

Passware Kit Mobile 2026v4 Decrypts Qualcomm-Based Samsung S20

1st July 2026

Passware Kit Mobile 2026 v4 expands Samsung S20 decryption coverage, speeds up password recovery with caching and batch optimizations, and adds support for more iOS, Huawei, and Android devices....read more

UPCOMING WEBINAR – AI Is The Hot Sauce: From Data Overload To Investigative Insight

UPCOMING WEBINAR – AI Is The Hot Sauce: From Data Overload To Investigative Insight

30th June 2026

Join Cellebrite’s July 7 webinar to learn how responsible AI can help investigators connect evidence, uncover insights faster, and maintain the transparency and defensibility every case demands—register now....read more

Cash machines hacked to spew out card details

“Skulduggery,” says Andrew Henwood, “is a very good word to describe what this extremely advanced, cleverly written malware gets up to. We’ve never seen anything like it.” What he has discovered is a devious piece of criminal coding that has

ACPO-APA International Policing Exhibition to focus on forensics

A key focus of the seminar programme will be on ‘Clearing the digital forensics backlog’ which will examine the increasing pressure on digital forensic experts to quickly identify and share the growing volume of digital evidence to help secure arrests

Computer Forensics Finds Twitter Plays Key Role in Cyber Attacks

Users of the popular networking site Twitter could be the unwitting participants in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) computer attacks that are rendering Iranian government Web sites inaccessible to users, said Gary Warner, Director of Research in Computer Forensics at

New forum (Live and Network Forensics) and new moderator

A new forum dedicated to live and network forensics is now online at Forensic Focus. Nick Furneaux will be moderating this new forum (for a recent interview with Nick, click here) and joins Greg Smith – our mobile phone forensics

Download pirates to launch new weapon

One of the largest sources of pirated content, BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay, this week began testing an “encrypted virtual private network” that purports to offer anonymous downloading for 5 euro a month. The Pirate Bay said it planned to

UK’s Serious Fraud Office gets first CIO

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has hired its first chief information officer, Josh Ellis. Ellis will take responsibility for the organisation’s IT services and its Digital Forensics Unit, which is used to seize electronic evidence. In his earlier career, Ellis

Eastern Europe producing CP

Organised crime syndicates are driving a proliferation of online CP with Eastern Europe emerging as the main source of material. Australian Federal Police national manager of hi-tech crime and child protection operations, Neil Gaughan, said an 18-minute video seized as

Feds Need 10,000 Cyber Security Experts

The head of the DoD-sponsored Digital Forensics Challenge said that contests like this will help the U.S. government find the talent it needs. He added that the original plans, which called for a national cyber Olympics, have been scaled back

Logicube Launches New Forensic Quest Data Capture Solution

Logicube® Inc. will debut its completely re-designed Forensic Quest®, at the TechnoSecurity 2009 Conference and Expo in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina this week. Users can now capture and authenticate hard drives at speeds approaching 6GB/min and the new touch screen

Three cloud computing risks to consider

When data and applications are moved off the local personal computer, the forensics investigator may lose the ability to access very critical information for the case. The provenance of a particular file or the time the file was last accessed

UK Home Office needs to get serious about e-crime

Microsoft hosted 190 police and law enforcement officers for three days’ training in IT forensics this week, saving the government some £325,000. It’s Microsoft’s way of giving something back to the industry, says Ed Gibson, the former FBI agent who

Cyber Conflict: The Modern Gold Rush

Can computer forensics investigators or others legally access computers they don’t own and are not authorized to enter? Can computer files or other information be retrieved from the computers without the owner’s authorization? Can you access into computers belonging to