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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

Computer forensics fighting recession-era data thieves

One disquieting side effect of the current economy’s number of redundancies is the increase of insider data theft. IT security experts Espion recently looked at incidents where firms found that ex-employees had stolen intellectual property (IP) and client lists to

When the FBI Raids a Data Center: A Rare Danger

As part of coordinated raids in early April, FBI agents seized computers from a data center at 2323 Bryan Street in Dallas, Texas, attempting to gather evidence in an ongoing investigation of two men and their various companies accused of

ForensicSoft Announces Forensically Sound Windows Bootable Environment

ForensicSoft has announced the release of its newest computer forensic tool, SAFE. SAFE, which stands for System Acquisition Forensics Environment, is a new Windows-based computer forensic platform specifically designed to support the expanding needs of computer forensic, computer security, and

Harlan Carvey This Week’s Guest On Talk Forensics

Talk Forensics (www.blogtalkradio.com/TalkForensics), hosted by Larry Daniel of Guardian Digital Forensics, has announced that Harlan Carvey will be the guest on the show for the May 10th episode at 4pm Eastern.

Review – MacLockPick II

Austin Troxell’s review of MacLockPick II can be read here with follow up discussion here.

HBGary and BitSec Forensics Announce Strategic Partnership

HBGary yesterday announced a strategic partnership with BitSec Forensics, a computer forensics and information security consultancy with expertise in computer forensics, information security, electronic discovery, and cyber incident response. As part of this new partnership, BitSec Forensics will use HBGary’s

Police want new remote hard drive search powers

Cyber cops want new laws to allow remote searches of seized hard drives in the hope they will help reduce long digital forensics backlogs – of up to two years for some forces. It would mean specialised officers in London

XBox Forensics

A forensics toolkit for the Xbox gaming console is described by US researchers in the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics. The toolkit could allow law enforcement agencies to scour the inbuilt hard disk of such devices and

Computer forensics agent honored for meritorious service

Federal prosecutors call Jimmy Weg of Helena “The Legend.” A federal court judge calls him “Professor Weg.” And now, Montana Department of Justice Criminal Investigator Jimmy Weg can add “award winning computer forensic examiner” to his title. A surprised Weg

Solving Crimes With Computer Forensics

When detectives are called out to crime scenes, they are doing much more than studying fingerprints and talking to witnesses. More and more, their investigations are taking them to computer labs where incriminating evidence is often found on every day

Interview with Jan Collie

An interview with UK-based computer forensics investigator Jan Collie is now online at http://www.forensicfocus.com/jan-collie-interview-240409

Plan to monitor all UK internet use

Communications firms are being asked to record all internet contacts between people as part of a modernisation in UK police surveillance tactics. The home secretary scrapped plans for a database but wants details to be held and organised for security

Don’t Mess With System Metadata

Why do people who know better than to traipse through crime scenes blithely muck about with digital smoking guns? With computers, it seems we must trip over the corpus delecti and grab the knife before we realize we’re standing in