27th August 2026

Walk A Mile In Their Shoes: The Hidden World Of The Digital Forensic Investigator
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What happens when disturbing material in a CSAM investigation has to be read, not viewed? Paul Gullon-Scott examines the psychological impact of messages, descriptions and AI prompts on digital forensic investigators....

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How Semantics 21 Are Using Global Intelligence To Pre-Categorise Up To 70% Of Investigations

How Semantics 21 Are Using Global Intelligence To Pre-Categorise Up To 70% Of Investigations

26th August 2026

No case should remain an island. S21 VisionX connects investigators to more than 3.7 billion contributed records, helping surface cross-case intelligence, reduce repeat review and bring critical connections forward faster....read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 26 2026

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 26 2026

26th August 2026

Read the latest DFIR news - OpenAI forensic artifacts, Apple Screen Time evidence, RAM-based location analysis, AI-assisted investigations, forensic imaging bottlenecks, and more....read more

10 Best Practices For AI-Assisted Investigations: A Guide For Legal And Compliance Teams

10 Best Practices For AI-Assisted Investigations: A Guide For Legal And Compliance Teams

24th August 2026

Cellebrite shares 10 best practices for faster, safer, and more defensible AI-assisted investigations, with a focus on governance, traceability, and human oversight....read more

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

Digital DNA: A Look Inside the FBI’s Computer Crime Lab

Buffalo is home to one of the FBI’s 14 Regional Computer Forensics Labs, or RCFLs. It’s here local, state and federal examiners team up to break down computers, cell phones, and iPods in search of evidence from a crime. Just

Tougher penalties for cyberterrorists

Officials at the United Arab Emirates information security conference are calling for tougher penalties against cyberterrorism and for better forensics…Kevin Mansell, managing director of the British-based digital forensics training and consultancy firm Control-F, urged UAE officials to utilize mobile-phone forensics

Computer Forensic ‘Expert’ Witnesses, Who is Representing You?

Computer forensic experts deal with some of the most grave and serious of criminal cases that involve digital evidence. However it may be surprising to hear that currently there is no regulatory body to ensure the quality of their work,

The computer detectives

Damon Hacker knows better than anyone else the kind of electronic fingerprints we leave behind on a daily basis. Did you use a computer today? A cell phone? A Blackberry? Swipe a card to enter your workplace? Drive a car?