7th August 2025

The Balance Between Digital Forensic Examiners And Digital Evidence Technicians: Expertise Vs. Efficiency
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Can digital forensic labs cut backlogs without cutting corners? Debbie Garner explores how tiered workflows using both examiners and technicians can strike the right balance....

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Forensic Focus Digest, August 08 2025

Forensic Focus Digest, August 08 2025

8th August 2025

Discover what’s new on Forensic Focus – explore the balance between expertise and efficiency in digital forensics, tackle the challenges of multi-jurisdictional investigations, and learn how transforming organisational culture can improve mental health in the field....read more

More Than Software: Amped Training Teaches You The Science Of Forensic Video And Image Analysis

More Than Software: Amped Training Teaches You The Science Of Forensic Video And Image Analysis

7th August 2025

Push past button-clicking—Amped Software training teaches the science behind forensic video analysis....read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 06 2025

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 06 2025

6th August 2025

Read the latest DFIR news – starting a digital forensic business, Hashcat v7.0.0, GenAI incident response guidance, cross-border investigation challenges, and more....read more

BDF steps up its game in the area of digital forensics

Members of the Barbados Defence Force have stepped up their game in the fight against computer related crime. Sixteen BDF officers of various ranking recently completed the Digital Forensics Course and they received their certificates at the Barbados Defence Force

Looking for foul play – digital forensics Part 2

What must be proven before charges can be brought against a suspected offender? What are the initial steps carried out when commencing a forensic examination? Ian Kennedy continues his look at computer forensics… More (BCS)

Guidance Software Files For IPO

Pasadena-based Guidance Software, a developer of software used for digital forensics, has filed for an IPO. Guidance, in an SEC filing Friday, said it is looking to raise up to $80M in an IPO on the Nasdaq under the symbol

Cyber crime becoming more organised

Cyber scams are increasingly being committed by organised crime syndicates out to profit from sophisticated ruses rather than hackers keen to make an online name for themselves, according to a top U.S. official. Christopher Painter, deputy chief of the computer

URI to receive nearly $600,000 to improve forensic research

In an effort to improve forensic research in Rhode Island, the U.S. Department of Justice has announced that the University of Rhode Island will receive $599,793 to purchase improved computer software technology. The money will be dispersed in two grants

What it’s like to be a computer forensics specialist

During his law enforcement days Harry Megerian got his hands on a lot of IT gear – by brute force. “We probably did a raid once a week or once every two weeks,” says Megerian, a former computer forensics specialist

Forensic toolkit harvests cellphone data

A new breed of forensic tools, designed with the help of Whangarei-based Thackray Forensics, can now access and clone the full contents of a mobile phone or PDA within seconds. Managing director John Thackray is one of a handful of

TSK 2.06 and Autopsy 2.08 released

From Brian Carrier: Major improvements for TSK are fixes for segfaults that were discussed on the mailing list, new versions of libewf and afflib that add support for the SMART format and that fix some compile bugs (respectively), and …

New Sleuthkit Windows Executables Release

From Brian Carrier: The Windows executables that were released last week did not run on everyone’s systems. A second release is out that uses different compileoptions. http://www.sleuthkit.org/sleuthkit/download.php

Computer Forensic Examiners Lead the Way on Assistance to Those in Need

As expert members of the international computer forensics community which provides unique and highly desirable services to the legal system, we assume a responsibility to provide services to those in need yet unable to pay. As a result, the Computer

Mobile spy software use almost always illegal, says expert

A piece of software which allows a user to track another person’s mobile phone use would be almost impossible to use in the UK without breaking the law, according to a surveillance law expert. Flexispy is the controversial software which

Acquire ewf images with ewfacquire on MacOSX/Freebsd/OpenBSD/Linux

Besides reading and writing (EnCase) EWF files with the libewf library, it’s now possible to read and write SMART images as well. With the ewfacquire tool you now can create a bit-copy image from devices in the SMART image format

High-tech lab fights crime of digital age

Imagine a laboratory filled with equipment advanced enough to locate deleted CP on a hard drive, recover old e-mails sent on a cell phone and trace the owner of a camera used to download photographs onto a laptop. Welcome to

ITNG 2007 Conference

In 2007, I will be chairing a conference session on Cyber/Digital forensics for ITNG in Las Vegas, NV. The International Conference on Information Technology- New Generations (ITNG) is an annual event focusing on state of the art technologies pertaining to

Computer forensics major introduced at Bloomsburg University

Bloomsburg University has introduced a new major that will train students to investigate the improper or illegal use of computers and digital devices, a field known as computer forensics. Computer forensics focuses on collecting, examining and presenting digitally stored evidence