BitLocker Decryption Today: YellowKey Explained And Where Passware Steps In

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With YellowKey drawing attention across the forensics community, Passware explains how the WinRE-based BitLocker exploit works, where its limitations lie, and what investigators can do when it fails....

How XRY Pro Helped Recover Critical Evidence From A Non-Responsive Smartphone

How XRY Pro Helped Recover Critical Evidence From A Non-Responsive Smartphone

See how XRY Pro helped investigators recover critical evidence from a non-responsive smartphone in a child abuse investigation....read more

Leica’s Marcus Rowe On Investigating The World’s Largest Crash Test, Plus What To Expect At FEE 2026

Leica’s Marcus Rowe On Investigating The World’s Largest Crash Test, Plus What To Expect At FEE 2026

Marcus Rowe from Leica Geosystems joins the Forensic Focus Podcast to talk about 3D laser scanning, Forensics Europe Expo 2026, and the role of LiDAR in modern crime and collision investigation....read more

Forensic Focus Digest, June 05 2026

Forensic Focus Digest, June 05 2026

Discover what’s new on Forensic Focus – explore video timing in Amped FIVE, meet STNDRDS AB founder Andreas Antonsen, see what’s new in ADF Pro v6.3, and more....read more

Thailand’s anti-computer crime law takes effect

Information and Communications Technology Minister Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom said the law, implemented for the first time on Wednesday, to counter cyber crimes, will not affect the public’s use of computers or Internet services and was only designed to combat crimes involving

Vista makes computer search easier…for the law

An American Bar Journal eColumn article brings us relevant revelations about Vista’s improved ability to provide evidence for court. Innovations within Vista apparently make it far easier to find evidence on PCs. Chief among those are Shadow Copy, Transactional NTFS

The fight against net crime

Gathering intelligence and performing arrests requires law enforcement experience, but gathering further evidence from computers, hard drives and other electronic devices requires specialist computer forensic skills. When forensic teams arrive at a physical crime scene their goal is to not

Do-It-Yourself Forensics

All over America, vendors stand ready to solve the e-discovery problems of big, rich companies. But here’s the rub: Most American businesses are small companies that use computers – and along with individual litigants, they’re bound by the same preservation

DFRWS 2007 – Demo/Poster submissions

From Wietse on the DFSci list: “As the DFRWS 2007 conference is approaching, you can still register as a participant. Please see details at http://www.dfrws.org/2007/ If you have a new tool that you would like to demo or a poster

Electronic evidence guidance released to UK police

The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) has released a new guide to collecting electronic evidence. The Good Practice Guide for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence has been revised by experts to reflect recent developments in computer forensic investigation techniques… More (ComputerWeekly)

Persistence of data on storage media

Jamie Ridden discusses the re-use of storage media and how slack space can prevent sensitive data from being completely removed… Full article: Security Focus

FastBloc Field Edition Forensically Validated by NIST

Guidance Software announced today that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has filed its test results on the company’s FastBloc(r) FE write blocker. The Guidance Software product performed at or above expectations by the governing body, indicating that

A Push to Standards for Net Forensics

Digital forensics is still a young science. That newness, coupled with the fast-changing world of computer technology, has resulted in a digital forensics taxonomy that is poorly defined and confusing to computer security experts and law enforcement alike. Network forensics

Antiforensics: When Tools Enable the Masses

Once again, the bad guys are lining their arsenals with new tools to use against you. Computer forensics is an emerging field of study and anti-forensics is certainly developing right alongside. Some say anti-forensics is developing faster. Why? Because what

Malware targets computer forensics tool

Virus writers have created a proof-of-concept virus that targets a widely-used computer forensics tool. Vred-A infects WinHex scripts, preventing these additions to forensics and data recovery tools from doing anything except infecting other scripts. The virus has not been seen

Accessdata And Nuix Partner To Distribute Email And Data Forensic Software

SYDNEY, Australia and LINDON, Utah – June 19, 2007 – Nuix Pty and AccessData Corporation, a pioneer in the digital forensics industry, today announced a strategic partnership to globally distribute their powerful and complementary email and computer forensic software for

Shock legal move RAMs new computer forensics message home

A court case battle between the Motion Picture Association of America and one of the world’s largest online media download sites has highlighted critical issues regarding the nature of digital evidence. In a pioneering move, federal judge Jacqueline Chooljian decreed,

A Data Discovery Department?

With the buzz surrounding electronic data discovery, which grows only louder as the need to find data stored electronically to support litigation increases, law firms and corporate clients are facing an important operational decision that might cause some friction in

TSK 2.09 Released

From Brian Carrier: Version 2.09 is now available. This release fixes some bugs for large files and hash databases on Windows, some stability bugs with corrupt file systems, some ‘ils’ flag bugs, and some updates to internal libraries. All users