27th August 2026

Walk A Mile In Their Shoes: The Hidden World Of The Digital Forensic Investigator
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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....

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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

10 Best Practices For AI-Assisted Investigations: A Guide For Legal And Compliance Teams

10 Best Practices For AI-Assisted Investigations: A Guide For Legal And Compliance Teams

24th August 2026

Cellebrite shares 10 best practices for faster, safer, and more defensible AI-assisted investigations, with a focus on governance, traceability, and human oversight....read more

LIMA from IntaForensics

Unveiled at ACPO 2009, IntaForensics (http://www.intaforensics.com) has announced the launch of new case management software LIMA™. Available to both service providers and Police High Tech crime units, LIMA™ streamlines case and resource management and gives authorised personnel the ability to

More on EnCase Portable

More details on EnCase Portable have been released on both the Guidance Software website and YouTube… More (Forensic4Cast)

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