18th August 2026

New DFIR Mental Health Training Webinar (CPD-Accredited)
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New CPD-accredited training from our Well-Being Lead, Paul Gullon-Scott, is now available to help digital forensic investigators and their organisations better understand and manage the psychological demands of the role — book your place today....

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AI Image Classification For Forensics – Build Custom Detectors In Seconds | BelkaGPT

AI Image Classification For Forensics – Build Custom Detectors In Seconds | BelkaGPT

17th August 2026

See how BelkaGPT turns image forensics from “scroll and squint” into “describe and detect” with offline AI image descriptions and instant custom classifiers - no training datasets required....read more

Protecting Those Who Protect Children: Inspection Findings And The Evidence Base For Investigator Well-Being

Protecting Those Who Protect Children: Inspection Findings And The Evidence Base For Investigator Well-Being

13th August 2026

A major new HMICFRS report exposes the urgent need for proactive, mandatory mental health support for digital forensic investigators and others working daily with online child sexual abuse material....read more

UPCOMING WEBINAR – Reducing ICAC Backlogs: Prioritizing Digital Evidence For Faster Investigations

UPCOMING WEBINAR – Reducing ICAC Backlogs: Prioritizing Digital Evidence For Faster Investigations

13th August 2026

Join Rich Frawley of ADF Solutions as he shares practical strategies for managing complex ICAC scenes, prioritizing the devices most likely to contain probative evidence, and making faster, more informed decisions in the field....read more

Big Brother in the office

More New Zealand workers are under the watchful gaze of surveillance cameras and tracking devices at work as employers crack down on dishonesty and time-wasting, experts say…Alan Watt, managing director of Computer Forensic Investigations, said he had built a business

Data Recovery & Solid State

With all of the recent hype about solid-state drives in both consumer applications and enterprise environments I have a real concern about data recovery on these devices. I know there are services for flash memory restoration but has anyone been

Open University launches computer forensics course

The Open University in the UK has launched a postgraduate course designed to offer a basic understanding of digital evidence collection, forensic computing and IT incident management in criminal investigations. Computer Forensics and Investigations balances the legal and technical aspects

Meet Bob Hanson, data P.I.

Robert M. Hanson could be your best friend, or your worst enemy. It depends on which side of the law you’re on. As a computer forensics expert and licensed private investigator, he’s hired to search data storage devices, usually hard

UK police address the growing threat of e-crime

Electronic crime is to have its own business unit within the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) for the first time. At the last estimate, e-crime was costing the UK economy £2.5bn a year, and until now it has been

The world of hi-tech crime

Intercepting internet telephone calls and tracing the original sources of photographs are among the new challenges for those working in digital forensics. The University of Adelaide today begins hosting its three-day “e-Forensics 2008” international conference, focusing on issues related to

U.S. Seeks to Force Suspect to Reveal Password to Computer Files

The federal government is asking a U.S. District Court in Vermont to order a man to type a password that would unlock files on his computer, despite his claim that doing so would constitute self-incrimination. The case, believed to be

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