9th June 2026

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....

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

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

9th June 2026

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

8th June 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

5th June 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

WinHex, X-Ways Forensics, X-Ways Investigator 13.9 released

WHAT’S NEW? * Forensic licenses only: Ability to open remote network drives at a logical level, if a drive letter has been assigned locally. The directory browser, File mode, Preview mode, Gallery mode, and Calendar mode are all available. A

Tracking terrorists with click of a mouse

Tucked away in a squat, 1980s-era office park halfway between Washington and Baltimore, 200 digital detectives are scouring the hard drives, MP3 players and compact discs seized from terrorist hide-outs in search of links and clues to their next plans

Military computer probe may have altered evidence

The ability of investigators to track some of Joe Grozelle’s last actions before he disappeared may have been hampered by a military investigator who accessed the cadet’s computer before it was handed over to police experts, an inquest heard yesterday.

Black Hat DC: Feds seek new digital forensic tools

Jim Christy has spent most of his adult life chasing computer criminals and in his 30 years on the job, he has seen suspects try every conceivable trick to hide their digital tracks, including cutting floppies in half with pinking

SubRosaSoft offers free digital forensics training CD

SubRosaSoft has released a free training CD for its MacForensicsLab digital forensics application. The CD looks at forensic investigation and walks the user through an investigation step-by-step using MacForensicsLab, which is designed for law enforcement professionals and investigators… More (Macworld)

Computer crime expert testifies at McGuire trial

Shortly before William McGuire was shot and dismembered, his home computer was used to research such Internet topics as: ”How to purchase guns in Pennsylvania,” ”instant poisons,” and ”how to commit murder,” a computer crime analyst told a jury in

Technology helping investigators

In some aspects, changing technology may be making the job tougher for computer forensics investigators, but it also has proven to be a valuable tool. In the past three or four years, detectives have found that computer forensics investigations can

National Computer Forensic Institute Unveiled

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Alabama state officials unveiled today the National Computer Forensic Institute in Hoover, Ala., that will assist in the field of computer forensics and digital evidence analysis. The institute will be developed by the

World’s Largest Steganography Application Hash Set – Free for LE

Backbone Security’s Steganography Analysis and Research Center (SARC) is pleased to announce the release of version 3.0 of SAFDB. With the fingerprints, or hash values, of every file artifact associated with 625 steganography applications, SAFDB is the world’s largest commercially

Digging for dirt in our computers

Welcome to the world of computer forensic investigation and the life of Allan Watt. A leading computer forensics investigator in New Zealand, Mr Watt now heads the newly formed Paragon Forensics in Albany. The company has the largest civilian forensic

Submissions Now Being Accepted for Timothy Fidel Award

Guidance Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:GUID), the world leader in digital investigationsâ„¢, today announced the Timothy Fidel Memorial Award Committee, whose judges act as the decision-making body for the award given in memoriam of Special Agent Tim Fidel, a pioneer and tireless

‘The Eight E’s’: Ascending the Computer Forensics Ladder

Though computer forensics is a young discipline, it’s not the exclusive province of new graduates of computer forensics degree programs. It’s a natural career extension for IT and law enforcement professionals and peripatetic lawyers with a dominant geek gene. Expertise

Digital forensics plagued by expanding storage

The increasing storage requirements of consumers and businesses has become a plague for computer-crime investigators, a former special agent told attendees at the Black Hat DC Conference on Wednesday. While only one percent of crimes involved DNA evidence, a majority

RAID Recovery: The Data Knight Kroll Ontrack To The Rescue!

More and more enthusiast users approach Kroll Ontrack with destroyed RAID arrays. Generally, data recovery from such a RAID array is possible, but keep in mind that the effort increases disproportionately. First of all, data has to be copied from