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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

Cracking the case: ‘DOMEX’ system is tool used to analyze crime

When Baltimore authorities seized computers connected to a multimillion-dollar Internet pharmacy operation in late 2006, they turned to Johnstown for help. Specialists at the National Drug Intelligence Center analyzed large amounts of electronic information, providing crucial evidence that led to

e-fense Announces Opening of New Headquarters

e-fense, Inc. today announced the relocation of its corporate headquarters to 9200 E. Panorama Cir, Suite 120 in Centennial, Colorado. The move follows the company’s announcements of new management and continued growth of its computer forensic and network security software

Data Theft Common By Departing Employees

Many people who are either laid-off from their job or simply moving to another opportunity often secretly take proprietary data from their employer on their way out the door, a study released this week found. Nearly 60 percent of employees

UK’s poor record on prosecuting hackers revealed

Experts have called for more police resources to fight computer crime, after it emerged that only 299 hackers have been charged under the UK’s computer crime law over the past four years. Computer Weekly has discovered that only 110 cases

Guidance Software Expands EnCase® Training OnDemand Offering

Guidance Software Inc. has announced new EnCase® Training OnDemand courses in eDiscovery and computer forensics, broadening its range of course offerings that allow EnCase customers worldwide to train anywhere, at their own convenience. The two new on demand offerings are:

U.S. Government Honors Precision Discovery Computer Forensics Expert for Service

Bruce W. Pixley, Vice President of Computer Forensics at Precision Discovery was recently recognized by U.S. government officials for providing outstanding computer forensics services. Most recently, Pixley was recognized at the U.S. Attorney’s Office Ninth Annual Law Enforcement Awards Ceremony

Guidance Software Sees Record Q4

Pasadena-based Guidance Software joins the list of Southern California firms who had a good quarter, saying Tuesday that it had revenues of $25.2M in its fiscal fourth quarter, growth of over 22 percent versus its similar quarter in 2007… More

HBGary Announces Value-Priced Computer Forensics Solution

HBGary, Inc., (http://www.hbgary.com) has announced that law enforcement and government agencies can now purchase HBGary Responder Field Edition for under $1000…“Responder Field Edition has helped police departments and computer forensic investigators around the country collect key electronic evidence in memory

SC Suite v3.0 released.

A new version of SC Suite is available, version 3.0 now includes more tools to analyse and extract information from a variety of file types and utilities to assist in every day tasks. Continuing user feedback has resulted in the

Deloitte announces new data centre for forensics and eDiscovery

Deloitte Australia has announced plans to invest in a significant new data centre at its Grosvener Square Sydney office in 2009 to assist with the work undertaken by its new Forensic Data and Analytic Insights divisions. Nicholas Adamo, Deloitte partner

AccessData Selects Parabon’s Frontier Grid Platform to Power Extreme Decryption

Parabon Computation, a veteran provider of extreme-scale grid computing software and services, today announced an alliance with AccessData®, a provider of state-of-the-art computer forensic and decryption solutions. Under an OEM arrangement, AccessData has integrated Parabon’s industry-leading Frontier® Grid Platform into

Other computer forensics feeds

A page which displays recent posts from other computer forensics RSS feeds is now online here: www.forensicfocus.com/computer-forensics-feeds More info, suggestions etc. to this thread please, thanks! Jamie

FG approves computer forensics institute for Nigeria

Nigeria may soon save some hard currencies usually expended in acquiring foreign computer forensic experts each time they were needed, as the Federal Government last week approved the establishment of the Computer Forensics Institute, Nigeria (CFIN). CFIN is a professional

Visual Computer Forensic Analysis

Computer forensics is a slow process. Examiners typically embark on a tedious file review process to determine each file’s relevance to a particular case. This can quickly add hours and extra costs to computer forensics. However, recent research presented at

Espion Achieves ISO 27001 Cert

Irish IT security company Espion has achieved ISO 27001 certification for its Dublin-based dedicated Computer Forensic laboratory. International standard ISO 27001 is an information security management system (ISMS) that demonstrates compliance to a detailed set of specific security controls and