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....

Forensic Focus Digest, August 08 2025

Forensic Focus Digest, August 08 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

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

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

Cyber crime ‘costs UK plc 270,000GBP an hour’

Cyber crime is costing UK companies up to 270,000GBP every 60 minutes – but many are unaware of the sheer scale of the outbreak, independent risk consultants have warned… More (Contractor UK)

New infrastructure to fight cybercrime in the Netherlands

For those who understand Dutch: “Om meer samenhang te creëren in de bestrijding van cybercrime wil het kabinet alle activiteiten onderbrengen in een Nationale Infrastructuur Bestrijding Cybercrime. Daarnaast komt er voor de daadwerkelijke opsporing en vervolging een speciaal centrum bij

Computer crime experts gathered at Europol

This week computer experts from the EU Member States have been exchanging their views on how to stop the increasing number of crimes which are carried out in cyber space… More (noticias.info)

Computer Forensic Lab Opens In Colorado

The FBI estimates 80 percent of all criminals leave behind some sort of electronic evidence. That’s one of the reasons it decided to open 13 new computer forensic laboratories across the country with the most recent being right here in

WIT (Ireland) Announces Degree in Computer Forensics

The computer forensics stream is being introduced to the Institute’s four-year BSc (Hons) in Applied Computing to meet the demand for expertise across the public and private sectors in Ireland and overseas. As well as helping to combat corporate crime,

UK government’s encryption key plan could backfire, warns expert

The clause of a law which forces people to hand over encryption keys will be activated after controversy delayed its implementation for six years. But one security expert has warned that the law itself could cause more criminals to turn

Newport Uni, Wales, launches computer forensics course

Newport University’s Business School will launch a graduate course in computer forensics this September. Speaking at the B2B Wales event in Cardiff, Tony Corner, head of computing at Newport Business School, and Eric Llewellyn, senior lecturer in computing, announced the

Forensics day in UK will reveal tracing techniques

What happens if a suspect deliberately attempts to remove all traces of his activity from his PC? This and other forensic issues will be covered on 12 July in London at a seminar run by BCS’s Information Security SG. Full

Computer Forensics Firm Warns of Web Mole Threat

UK computer forensics firm, Zentek Forensics, claims that whilst web-jacking is a new phenomena for home PC users, similar techniques are being widely-used in commercial environments. Web-jacking involves planting a Trojan on a PC or server in order to gain

Retain or restrain access logs?

A recent proposal by the U.S. Department of Justice that would mandate Internet Service Providers to retain certain records represents a dangerous trend of turning private companies into proxies for law enforcement or intelligence agencies against the interests of their

Merging to Better Track Computer Crimes

Vacant space in the City-County Building has Madison Police and the Dane County Sheriff’s Department is expanding their computer crime units. And it’s not just about more space – it’s about handling more cases. The new city/county computer crime facility

UK looks to get tough on cybercrime

Tightening up existing legislation will help UK authorities to prosecute hackers better and put them in prison longer – but analysts question whether the moves will constrict an explosive growth in costly cybercrime. The UK has sought to tighten the

Professor helps bust cyber criminals

Marcus Rogers started as a beat cop, but it’s what he did on the side that led him to busting cyber crooks. Now an associate professor of computer technology, Rogers used to run his own Internet service provider and build

Cybercrime spurs college courses in digital forensics

One of the hottest new courses on U.S. college campuses is a direct result of cybercrime. Classes in digital forensics — the collection, examination and presentation of digitally stored evidence in criminal and civil investigations — are cropping up as

Detective describes computer sleuthing

Detective Randy Stone carried a shotgun as he walked up to help serve a search warrant on the house at 11944 W. Rolling Hills Court just before Christmas. Stone, a Sedgwick County computer forensic expert and SWAT team member, helped

Dealing with computerised evidence

The overriding principle concerning all phases of seizing and processing electronic evidence i.e. seized computers, disks and other media, should be never to alter the evidence from its original state. This should ensure its admissibility in court or other legal