11th August 2025

Neal Ysart, Co-Founder, The Coalition Of Cyber Investigators
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Neal Ysart shares how The Coalition of Cyber Investigators tackles OSINT integrity, complex investment fraud, and the rise of AI-driven scams....

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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

The Balance Between Digital Forensic Examiners And Digital Evidence Technicians: Expertise Vs. Efficiency

The Balance Between Digital Forensic Examiners And Digital Evidence Technicians: Expertise Vs. Efficiency

7th August 2025

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....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

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

New crackdown on UK cyber crime

The UK’s new FBI-style crime fighting agency has unveiled plans to get tough on cyber crime. The Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) has announced a range of new measures to tackle online crime gangs, such as a science laboratory to

UK computer crime laws ‘ridiculous’

A British man labelled one of the world’s most dangerous hackers yesterday railed against the UK’s computer crime laws. Gary McKinnon, who faces extradition to the US after being accused of breaking into the Pentagon’s computer system, said that Britain’s

AccessData Corp. to Create the Next-Generation Forensic Toolkit

AccessData Corp., a leader in digital forensic software solutions, today announced that as a member of the Oracle(R) PartnerNetwork, it will provide customers with a new dynamic and adaptive tool for digital forensics. The next generation of Forensic Toolkit, FTK

Army Investigator Brent Pack Honored for Groundbreaking Work

Guidance Software, along with AccessData, today announced the winner and finalists of the second annual Timothy Fidel Memorial Award. The honor recognizes excellence in the field of computer forensics, and is presented in memory of Timothy Fidel, a Special Agent

IT Forensics: When crime scene investigations go digital

Digital forensics has been around for at least a decade, but in the commercial sector it is still a relatively unknown and unexploited discipline. The concept of digital forensics was originally spawned by law enforcement agencies, which started to realise

Computer forensics — the CSI reality

Computer forensics is not a task to be undertaken lightly by just any IT worker. Instead, it calls for specialised skills and careful, documented procedures. A forensics expert knows what signs to look for and can identify additional information sources

Computer forensics is a red-hot job market

Computer forensics graduates have been in high demand since the field first appeared and now the demand is growing even larger. In fact, Marcus Rogers, an associate professor at Purdue’s College of Technology, says private firms are recruiting graduates in

Phone Forensics Company Offers Expertise To Malaysia

The company involved in the London bombing telephone forensics work is offering its expertise to the Royal Malaysian Police. Forensic Telecommunications Services Ltd (FTS), which is currently helping the British police in ongoing investigations of the London bombing, is known

Microsoft: Bitlocker key to safe disk disposal

Microsoft claims that businesses planning to use Vista together with its Bitlocker hard drive encryption technology will have an easy and safe way to dispose of their hard disks. More (News.com)

Georgia law HB 1259

A new law in Georgia on private investigators now extends to computer forensics and computer incident response, meaning that forensics experts who testify in court without a PI license may be committing a felony… More (Security Focus)

The Digital Detectives

FBI computer forensic examiners Tim Huff and Tony Pallone unlock the secrets inside hundreds of computers each year… More (Popular Mechanics)

Computer forensics and email discovery

On March 1, 2005, the giant US bank Morgan Stanley learned that it had effectively lost a $US1.45 billion fraud case. It lost, not because there was evidence that it had conspired to mis-state the value of assets and stock

Vontu and Guidance Software Announce Agreement to Automate Investigations

Vontu, Inc., the leader in data loss prevention solutions, and Guidance Software, the world leader in computer investigations, today announced a partnership to deliver an integrated solution for automating data security investigations. The combined solution enables customers to detect the

QuickStudy: Computer forensics

Computer forensics is the application of specialized investigative and analytic techniques to identify, collect, examine and preserve data from computer systems or networks so that it may serve as evidence in a court of law. More narrowly, the term applies