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5th November 2026

Page One’s Rob Fried And Andrew Milauskas On Using AI In Digital Forensics And E-Discovery
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Rob Fried and Andrew Milauskas join the Forensic Focus Podcast to talk about forensics.expert, Rob’s free AI knowledge portal for digital forensics, and how to use AI responsibly in investigations....

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Dead Ends And Data Recovery: The Importance Of Remaining Tool Agnostic In Digital Forensics

Dead Ends And Data Recovery: The Importance Of Remaining Tool Agnostic In Digital Forensics

4th November 2026

When standard forensic tools hit a dead end, expertise makes the difference - discover how Page One’s Jeffrey Lehn uncovered critical vehicle data that helped solve a fatal hit-and-run case and why forensic examiners must look beyond automated tools....read more

Forensics Forward 2026 (Online, November 10): A Global Day Of Digital Forensics, Cybersecurity And Law

Forensics Forward 2026 (Online, November 10): A Global Day Of Digital Forensics, Cybersecurity And Law

3rd November 2026

Registration is now open for Forensics Forward: Cybersecurity, Digital Evidence, and Justice, a one-day online symposium on November 10, 2026, featuring seven expert-led sessions exploring the latest challenges and developments in digital forensics, cybersecurity, and justice - register today!...read more

CCTV Review Under Pressure: How S21 CCTV Helps Investigators Find What Matters Faster

CCTV Review Under Pressure: How S21 CCTV Helps Investigators Find What Matters Faster

3rd November 2026

Semantics 21’s Tom Oldroyd shows how S21 CCTV uses offline AI to cut hours of CCTV, body-worn and dash cam footage down to the moments that matter, from face and vehicle search to ANPR, multi-camera sync and redaction....read more

Bletchley Park – In need of repairs

I do realise that this is slightly off topic, but for those that believe like I do that the history of our profession is important, I’d like to bring this to your attention. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/30/bletchley_park/ http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/news/docview.rhtm/516816 If you don’t already know,

Mobile Phone Forensics

It’s been 20 years since a UK drug dealer discovered too late the folly of keeping all his records on a Psion Organiser, helpfully providing police with names and addresses of customers and suppliers, as well as sales records. Today’s

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