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

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

Kroll Ontrack Opens Singapore Office

Kroll Ontrack , a provider of data recovery products and services has extended its operations with the opening of a Singapore office this week. Headquartered in Minneapolis,Minnesota, Kroll Ontrack said its decision to open a Singapore branch was a direct

X-Ways Forensics, X-Ways Investigator 14.6 released

WHAT’S NEW? * Ability to completely access media, RAIDs and interpreted image files with more than 4.3 billion (2^32) sectors. Allows to read data from beyond the 2 TB barrier on media with a sector size of 512 bytes. *

UK’s Met Police push for new e-crime unit

A number of high profile incidents have led to a growing clamour of support from security industry experts and the public alike, which today was endorsed by the head of computer crime at the Metropolitan Police. Detective Superintendent Charlie McMurdie,

Deloitte doubles its computer forensic practice in Australia

Professional services firm Deloitte has doubled the size of its computer forensic and electronic discovery group following a merger with Forensic Data. The Australian firm, which specialises in data recovery, data conversion, electronic discovery and computer forensics, provides consulting services

Botnet sting nets U.S., New Zealand cyber-criminals

The FBI this week announced progress on a computer crime initiative aimed at thwarting the use of “botnets” to disrupt Internet communications. The investigation, dubbed Operation Bot Roast II, has netted eight arrests around the US, and, with the help

AFIT cyber warriors win digital forensics challenge

A team of four computer science and cyber operations graduate students from the Air Force Institute of Technology combined their cyber skills and interest in digital forensics to win the Grand Champion trophy at the annual DOD Cyber Crime Center

Up-to-speed on hi-tech crime in Fiji

Having first descended onto the shores of Fiji in 1996 as a British police officer researching global computer criminal activity, the response and capabilities by law enforcement agencies, I found myself a decade later returning as part of an international