3rd July 2026

Forensic Focus Digest, July 03 2026
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Discover what’s new on Forensic Focus – explore digital evidence investigations with David Shipley, deepfake image analysis with Amped Software, RAID forensics with Atola Technology, Cellebrite’s journey to Genesis, and more....

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Passware Kit Mobile 2026 v4 expands Samsung S20 decryption coverage, speeds up password recovery with caching and batch optimizations, and adds support for more iOS, Huawei, and Android devices....read more

UPCOMING WEBINAR – AI Is The Hot Sauce: From Data Overload To Investigative Insight

UPCOMING WEBINAR – AI Is The Hot Sauce: From Data Overload To Investigative Insight

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Join Cellebrite’s July 7 webinar to learn how responsible AI can help investigators connect evidence, uncover insights faster, and maintain the transparency and defensibility every case demands—register now....read more

Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference East 2026 Returned To Myrtle Beach

Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference East 2026 Returned To Myrtle Beach

30th June 2026

Explore key highlights from Techno East 2026 and see what’s ahead as the community returns to Myrtle Beach in 2027....read more

Enhanced Steganography Detection Tool Available

Backbone Security has announced the newest version of their industry leading steganography application detection tool, Steganography Analyzer Artifact Scanner (StegAlyzerAS) at the DoD Cyber Crime Conference 2008. Online threat forecasts for 2008 include increasing use of obfuscation techniques such as

CRU-DataPort(R) Acquires WiebeTech

WiebeTech, a premier developer of computer storage and forensic solutions, has been purchased by CRU-DataPort of Vancouver, Washington, a global leader in data security and data mobility products…”We are pleased to add WiebeTech employees and their highly respected product line

Cyber detection in Malaysia

Thanks to television shows like CSI, people are now more aware of what computer forensic analysts like Aswami Fadillah Mohd Ariffin do for a living. Although what is depicted is not always accurate, the digital forensics head at Cybersecurity Malaysia

UK gov sets rules for hacker tool ban

The UK government has published guidelines for the application of a law that makes it illegal to create or distribute so-called “hacking tools”. The controversial measure is among amendments to the Computer Misuse Act included in the Police and Justice

Computer Forensics Faces Private Eye Competition

The Internet is boundless and cybercrime scenes stretch from personal desktops across the fiber networks that circle the globe. Digital forensic investigators like Harold Phipps, vice president of industry relations at Norcross Group in Norcross, Ga., routinely slip across conventional

Phone-Shield set to increase police prosecution rates

A new mobile phone faraday bag called the ‘Phone-Shield’ has been launched by Tamworth-based Disklabs, is set to increase the ability of the police to successfully and cost-effectively prosecute in cases where mobile phone data comprises an essential element of

Computer cops snare predators in their Web

For a guy who just turned 40, Chuck McMullen can turn himself into a fairly convincing teenager. So can Chad Hoffman, 35, who effortlessly sheds 20 years as he point-clicks his way between message windows of online chat rooms. They

US Law: Safe Harbor Rule Covering Inadvertent Destruction of Electronic Data

Under the recently adopted changes to the Federal Rules for Civil Procedure (FRCP), the safe harbor provision covering the inadvertent destruction of Electronically Stored Information exists, but it’s a very narrow proviso. In a recently published article, Safe Harbor: Interpreting

UK companies urge creation of centralised e-crime unit

Businesses are becoming increasingly frustrated at having no centralised organisation to which they can report instances of computer crime, and are calling on the government to form a central police e-crime unit. David Roberts, chief executive of the Corporate IT

DOMEX: Document & Media Exploitation

Digital documents and storage devices hold the key to many ongoing military and criminal investigations. The most straightforward approach to using these media and documents is to explore them with ordinary tools – open the word files with Microsoft Word,

New appointment at Yorkshire forensics firm

Data Genetics International (DGI), one of the UK’s largest independent IT forensics companies specialising in the prevention and investigation of workplace computer crime, has appointed James Coulthard to its Leeds office. He joins from the West Yorkshire Police Hi Tech

National e-Forensics Institute set up in Mumbai

Institute of e-forensics Ltd has earmarked Rs 250 crore to set up electronic forensic institutes and cyber labs. Christened National Institute of e-Forensics (NIEF), the training institutes will offer short and long-term courses in cyber and mobile forensic computing, Sachin

New lab urged for digital forensics in Richmond

State police officials want a new facility to investigate crimes on cyberspace to help keep pace with the demand for analyzing digital forensic evidence. Officials said yesterday that the effort to build the proposed Virginia Digital Forensics Laboratory is a

New Master’s Degrees in Digital Forensics approved at UCF

The UCF Board of Trustees on Thursday approved the creation of new master’s degree programs in Digital Forensics. The master’s degree in Digital Forensics will prepare students to work in government or private forensics labs or as industry experts in

Snap-happy criminals and cellphone forensics

Cellphone forensics do present some challenges. Unlike personal computers, cellphones feature a multitude of proprietary operating systems, requiring investigators to use different methods for extracting data from different phones. By law, police making an arrest aren’t allowed to examine a