1st October 2026

Passware Kit Mobile 2026 v5 Decrypts Samsung Galaxy Watch
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Passware Kit Mobile 2026 v5 expands mobile forensics with Samsung Galaxy Watch 4/5/6 passcode recovery and data extraction, new Samsung and Unisoc device support, Enpass for Android decryption, and faster workflows with immediate passcode recovery....

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Trust Is Not A Feature. It Is The Foundation.

Trust Is Not A Feature. It Is The Foundation.

1st October 2026

Discover what agencies should expect from a digital forensics partner and how MSAB puts transparency, accountability and long-term commitment at the heart of its work....read more

Semantics 21’s CCTV Review Tool Is Built For Footage That Cannot Wait

Semantics 21’s CCTV Review Tool Is Built For Footage That Cannot Wait

30th September 2026

Turn CCTV footage into usable evidence faster with S21 CCTV, an intuitive offline solution that helps investigators review, analyse, enhance, redact and report on time-critical video evidence without unnecessary complexity....read more

Berla Introduces iVe 5.0, Adding Support For More Than 38,500 Additional Vehicles

Berla Introduces iVe 5.0, Adding Support For More Than 38,500 Additional Vehicles

30th September 2026

Introducing iVe Generation 5 from Berla: Discover how expanded coverage for more than 38,500 additional vehicles, new acquisition capabilities, modular hardware, and integrated guidance are advancing vehicle forensics....read more

Digital Forensic Awards – The Results

On Sunday 19th July 2009 the first annual Digital Forensic Awards were held by the Forensic 4cast Team. Over 400 votes were cast by the nominees’ peers in the digital forensic field… More (Forensic 4cast)

Poor IT job market may fuel online crime: Cisco

The ever-weakening job market could well lead to an increase in online crime as laid-off workers, especially those with computer skills, turn to scams to support themselves, Cisco Systems Inc said in a mid-year security report… More (Reuters)

Top Cybercrime Fighters Discuss Their Trade

Symantec’s workshop on cybercrime Friday brought together a panel of experts from the law enforcement side: Donna M. Peterson, unit chief of the FBI’s Cyber Division, Matthew A. Parella, Assistant U.S. Attorney Chief for the Northern California CHIP (Computer Hacking

Device Seizure v3.2 Released

Paraben has announced the release of Paraben’s Device Seizure v3.2 with TomTom and Android support…What’s New: * Added support for Android* Added support for TomTom GPS Devices* Added additional support for Sanyo CDMA phones* Added support for Samsung A950, U340,

Indian police set to use cyber forensic tools

The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing is setting up a modern Digital Forensics Training and Analysis Centre in Thiruvananthapuram for the State police. The facility will provide forensic expertise and training to police officers investigating cyber crimes. It will

Voom Interprets Supreme Court Ruling to Apply to Computer Forensics

According to Voom Technologies, Inc., Recent Supreme Court ruling places computer forensics under the scope of Court’s requirement for live testimony by forensic analysts. Although this controversial 5 to 4 decision was well-debated and resolved on constitutional grounds, the ramifications

Governments hit by cyber attack

A widespread computer attack has hit several US government agencies while some South Korean government websites also appear to be affected. The US Treasury Department, Secret Service, Federal Trade Commission and Transportation Department were all hit by the attack that

Deleting may be easy, but your hard drive still tells all

It was only a single digit in a 20-page Microsoft Word contract between two partners, but Scott Cooper earned his fee several years ago when he found it. Cooper, a computer forensics expert, learned that the numeral “1” had been

Dell delves into digital detective work

Dell has launched a service designed to help law-enforcement agencies convict more criminals as digital evidence proliferates. The company claims its digital-forensics offering will help police reduce backlogs that can be as long as two years, as it allows multiple

Fake email easily detected

The email at the heart of the Utegate scandal would have been found easily by the Australian Federal Police and could have been fabricated in a number of ways, according to a computer forensics expert. Proof that an email sent

Luring law adds cellular technology

BOULDER, Colo. — A new law that took effect this week makes it illegal to lure children under age 15 through sexually-explicit text messages or cell-phone pictures, signifying a shift in popular technology and giving prosecutors another tool to catch

Legal challenge to web child abuse inquiry

One of Britain’s biggest online paedophile inquiries is to be challenged in the court of appeal amid allegations from campaigners that hundreds of men have been wrongly convicted in a mass miscarriage of justice. For more than two years a

How To Seize a Laptop And Make It Stick

On May 21, Justice Margot Botsford of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ordered police to return computer equipment that they had seized from Boston College student Riccardo Calixte in March. Police had obtained a warrant and seized the computer

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