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4th November 2026

Dead Ends And Data Recovery: The Importance Of Remaining Tool Agnostic In Digital Forensics
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When standard forensic tools hit a dead end, expertise makes the difference - discover how Page One’s Jeffrey Lehn uncovered critical vehicle data that helped solve a fatal hit-and-run case and why forensic examiners must look beyond automated tools....

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Forensics Forward 2026 (Online, November 10): A Global Day Of Digital Forensics, Cybersecurity And Law

Forensics Forward 2026 (Online, November 10): A Global Day Of Digital Forensics, Cybersecurity And Law

3rd November 2026

Registration is now open for Forensics Forward: Cybersecurity, Digital Evidence, and Justice, a one-day online symposium on November 10, 2026, featuring seven expert-led sessions exploring the latest challenges and developments in digital forensics, cybersecurity, and justice - register today!...read more

CCTV Review Under Pressure: How S21 CCTV Helps Investigators Find What Matters Faster

CCTV Review Under Pressure: How S21 CCTV Helps Investigators Find What Matters Faster

3rd November 2026

Semantics 21’s Tom Oldroyd shows how S21 CCTV uses offline AI to cut hours of CCTV, body-worn and dash cam footage down to the moments that matter, from face and vehicle search to ANPR, multi-camera sync and redaction....read more

Forensics Europe Expo 2027 Returns To Excel London With Expanded Opportunities For Forensic Professionals

Forensics Europe Expo 2027 Returns To Excel London With Expanded Opportunities For Forensic Professionals

3rd November 2026

Forensics Europe Expo returns to Excel London on 22–23 June 2027 as part of Public Protection Week, bringing forensic professionals together for expert-led insights, cutting-edge technologies and industry collaboration – register your interest today....read more

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

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