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

Hard disk detective

Andy Harbison’s business card may read ‘senior manager, enterprise risk services’ and his reputation is as one of the country’s foremost computer forensics practitioners but it’s hard to escape the impression that he could tell you a thing or two

Funding to Boost Forensic Testing in Alabama

Computer forensics labs in Alabama will receive $987,227 from the U.S. Department of Justice, according to Sen. Richard Shelby. The money will be routed through the Alabama District Attorneys Association. According to a news release form Shelby’s officer, the ADAA

High-Tech Crimes Overwhelm Small-Town Police

Identity theft and other computer crimes are overwhelming police departments in many of Wisconsin’s smaller towns and villages. They simply don’t have the resources to go after high-tech criminals. Denmark Police Chief Ron Towns considers his community safe. What’s becoming

Binghamton University research links digital images and cameras

CPers will soon have a harder time escaping prosecution thanks to a stunning new technology in development at Binghamton University, State University of New York, that can reliably link digital images to the camera with which they were taken, in

Cop leads crackdown on internet fraudsters

An Internet supercop has been appointed to track down online fraudsters. Detective Constable Scott Rennie will spearhead investigations into crooks using auction website eBay. The move by Strathclyde Police comes as internet crime in the UK has soared to a

Meet The Hackers

Cybercrooks are stealing billions. An inside look at law enforcement’s biggest targets…

Perlustro Selects EnterpriseDB for Computer Forensics Suite

EnterpriseDB has announced that Perlustro will integrate EnterpriseDB Advanced Server into its ILook Investigator Forensic Software (ILook), a comprehensive suite of computer forensics tools used to acquire and analyze digital media. ILook’s development is supported by the IRS Criminal Investigation

Hidden Messages

“Imagine that someone has stabbed Pamela Mills-Senn in her apartment,” says Currie, OIC of the technological crime branch of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). “One of her neighbors has come over and found her dead and calls the police.

Judges And Prosecutors Throw The Book At Hackers

Eric McCarty goes before a federal judge this month on charges he damaged the University of Southern California’s online application system. McCarty, 25, says he was just trying to highlight the Web site’s security vulnerabilities. A not-guilty plea just might

Microsoft’s BitLocker

BitLocker Drive Encryption is a new security feature in Windows Vista, designed to work with the Trusted Platform Module (TPM). Basically, it encrypts the C drive with a computer-generated key. In its basic mode, an attacker can still access the

Open Computer Forensics Architecture (ocfa)

The Open Computer Forensics Architecture (OCFA) is a modular computer forensics framework build by the “Dutch National Police Agency”. The main goal is to automate the digital forensic process to speed up the investigation and give tactical investigators direct access

Convicted Man Sues HP After Encryption Failed to Keep Him Out of Prison

Michael Crooker had his lawsuit concerning Hewlett-Packard’s DriveLock encryption software tossed out of court. Crooker had his Compaq laptop seized by FBI agents in 2004 after bomb-making materials were found at his home. He claimed that the FBI then used

Digital Forensic Research Workshop Challenge 2006

From Brian Carrier: Based on the success of the Digital Forensic Research Workshop (DFRWS)2005 memory analysis challenge, a new challenge is being posted for DFRWS2006. This year, the focus is on file carving techniques. The challenge data set contains JPEG,

New versions of TSK and Autopsy now available

Received from Brian Carrier: New versions of TSK and Autopsy are now available (after the longestduration of no releases in the history of the tools). There are severalnew features including Expert Witness (EnCase) images, AFF images, and ISO9660 file systems,

Call for comments on Angolan computer crime Bills

The National Information Technology Commission (CNTI) has appealed to experts of the sector for greater participation in proposed legislation on computerised crime, protection of data and information security, according to the Angola Press Agency. CNTI’s media spokesperson, Luísa dos Santos,

Cell Phone Forensics Product Announcement

May 8, 2006 – Concord, MA, – Project-a-Phone, Inc. announced today that it will introduce its system for gathering cell phone forensic evidence to the law enforcement community at the Silicon Valley meeting of HTCIA in Santa Clara. The Project-a-Phone