23rd September 2026

How Semantics 21 Is Calling Time On Add-On Culture In Digital Forensics
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Magnet Forensics Expands Collaboration With NCMEC To Strengthen Victim Identification

Magnet Forensics Expands Collaboration With NCMEC To Strengthen Victim Identification

22nd September 2026

Coming soon to Magnet Griffeye: new capabilities will enable investigators to securely share CSAM-related files, hashes and investigative information directly with NCMEC, helping streamline workflows and support faster child victim identification....read more

Radim Motycka, Founder, Proofsnap

Radim Motycka, Founder, Proofsnap

22nd September 2026

Why screenshots alone may not be enough: ProofSnap founder Radim Motycka explains how hashes, timestamps, WARC, network artefacts and independent verification can strengthen the preservation of web evidence....read more

Finding Answers Faster: Genesis For Private Sector Investigations

Finding Answers Faster: Genesis For Private Sector Investigations

21st September 2026

Cellebrite's Matt Goeckel demos Genesis on a real enterprise case - UFDRs, CDRs, documents, audio and video - showing how agentic AI surfaces leads and timelines while linking every finding back to its source....read more

Guidance Software to Offer HBGary Responder™ for Live Memory Analysis

Guidance Software Inc. has announced a strategic alliance with HBGary Inc., a leading provider of security assessment solutions and services. Through this relationship, Guidance Software adds HBGary‘s unique live memory (RAM and volatile data) analysis solutions to its portfolio of

Ecuadorian analysts comment on INTERPOL’s laptop procedures

Last Thursday, May 15, the International Police Agency (Interpol) released their long-awaited report on the laptops and computer materials the Colombian Army said it captured after the March 1 bombing and raid on a guerrilla camp in Ecuador. As expected,

What makes a cyber criminal?

Cyber crime – internet banking and credit card fraud – is now the fastest growing sector of global organised crime, increasing at a rate of about 40% per year. With Brazil thought to have by far the largest number of

INTERPOL releases computer forensic report requested by Colombia

INTERPOL today presented the results of its forensic examination of eight seized FARC computer and hardware exhibits following a request for assistance in March of this year by Colombia, one of INTERPOL’s 186 member countries. INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K.

CSI Stick: The Portable Cell Phone Forensic Tool

Paraben Corporation, a digital forensic technology provider, announced today that it has released the new Cell Seizure Investigator Stick (CSI Stick). The CSI Stick is a thumb drive size device that forensically acquires data from cell phones. This portable solution

WetStone Offers Training at Techno Security

WetStone will be hosting two pre-conference classes on May 30-31, 2008 at the 10th annual Techno Security Conference. The Live Investigator Training course is designed to teach students the techniques for acquiring digital evidence from a running suspect’s system in

Network forensics group test

Network-based tools covered some interesting territory. There are two classes of solutions that seem to be lumped into the network forensics category. The first incorporates all those offerings that do much of what traditional computer forensics tools do, only they

Trace Malware’s steps with RE:Trace

Reverse engineering is regarded as one of the most difficult specialties in the hacker community. The deconstruction and analysis of software and systems to understand their inner workings is a complex task. It requires a thorough understanding of kernel functions,

Computer Forensics Lab Awarded to New Mexico

The FBI announced recently that the state of New Mexico, in conjunction with the UNM Police Department, UNM Information Technology Services Department (ITS) and the NSA-certified UNM Anderson School of Management’s Center for Information Assurance Research and Education (CIARE), has

LTU Technologies Releases LTU-Finder 3.0 at CEIC

LTU Technologies has announced the release of LTU-Finder v. 3.0, a tool for image and video recognition in the field of computer forensics. LTU-Finder 3.0 was unveiled at Guidance Software’s Computer and Enterprise Investigations Conference (CEIC) in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Microsoft slowly seals its lips about its police toolkit

To put a lid on bloggers’ speculation about police getting “backdoors” to Windows security, Microsoft is starting to hush up on the subject. In an e-mail to BetaNews on Friday, a spokesperson described COFEE as a “customizable framework.” Despite releasing

OU tackles computer forensics

Fears of corporate espionage, malicious staff and disputed trade deals has led to the Open University’s first course on computer forensics to be heavily oversubscribed. The post-graduate Computer Forensics and Investigations course starts today, and prospective students have been bumped

‘Extreme Porn’ Law Could Criminalise Millions in UK

Almost unreported, the UK Criminal Justice Bill is slowly wending its way toward becoming law. It includes a section (Clause 63) on “extreme pornographic images” that may, or may not, affect a very large proportion of the adult population in

COFEE (Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor)

Microsoft has reportedly developed a USB key that allows investigators to extract forensic data from PCs. COFEE (Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor) comes in a USB key form factor, and was distributed to a small number of law-enforcement agencies last

New forensic lab opened at the University of Teesside (UK)

A new laboratory for the training of CSIs has been opened at the University of Teesside. The new Digital Evidence Laboratory was opened by Andrew Rennison, the Home Office’s forensic science regulator. Angus Marshall, senior lecturer in forensic science at