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5th November 2026

Page One’s Rob Fried And Andrew Milauskas On Using AI In Digital Forensics And E-Discovery
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Rob Fried and Andrew Milauskas join the Forensic Focus Podcast to talk about forensics.expert, Rob’s free AI knowledge portal for digital forensics, and how to use AI responsibly in investigations....

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Dead Ends And Data Recovery: The Importance Of Remaining Tool Agnostic In Digital Forensics

Dead Ends And Data Recovery: The Importance Of Remaining Tool Agnostic In Digital Forensics

4th November 2026

When standard forensic tools hit a dead end, expertise makes the difference - discover how Page One’s Jeffrey Lehn uncovered critical vehicle data that helped solve a fatal hit-and-run case and why forensic examiners must look beyond automated tools....read more

Forensics Forward 2026 (Online, November 10): A Global Day Of Digital Forensics, Cybersecurity And Law

Forensics Forward 2026 (Online, November 10): A Global Day Of Digital Forensics, Cybersecurity And Law

3rd November 2026

Registration is now open for Forensics Forward: Cybersecurity, Digital Evidence, and Justice, a one-day online symposium on November 10, 2026, featuring seven expert-led sessions exploring the latest challenges and developments in digital forensics, cybersecurity, and justice - register today!...read more

CCTV Review Under Pressure: How S21 CCTV Helps Investigators Find What Matters Faster

CCTV Review Under Pressure: How S21 CCTV Helps Investigators Find What Matters Faster

3rd November 2026

Semantics 21’s Tom Oldroyd shows how S21 CCTV uses offline AI to cut hours of CCTV, body-worn and dash cam footage down to the moments that matter, from face and vehicle search to ANPR, multi-camera sync and redaction....read more

UK police address the growing threat of e-crime

Electronic crime is to have its own business unit within the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) for the first time. At the last estimate, e-crime was costing the UK economy £2.5bn a year, and until now it has been

The world of hi-tech crime

Intercepting internet telephone calls and tracing the original sources of photographs are among the new challenges for those working in digital forensics. The University of Adelaide today begins hosting its three-day “e-Forensics 2008” international conference, focusing on issues related to

U.S. Seeks to Force Suspect to Reveal Password to Computer Files

The federal government is asking a U.S. District Court in Vermont to order a man to type a password that would unlock files on his computer, despite his claim that doing so would constitute self-incrimination. The case, believed to be

Enhanced Steganography Detection Tool Available

Backbone Security has announced the newest version of their industry leading steganography application detection tool, Steganography Analyzer Artifact Scanner (StegAlyzerAS) at the DoD Cyber Crime Conference 2008. Online threat forecasts for 2008 include increasing use of obfuscation techniques such as

CRU-DataPort(R) Acquires WiebeTech

WiebeTech, a premier developer of computer storage and forensic solutions, has been purchased by CRU-DataPort of Vancouver, Washington, a global leader in data security and data mobility products…”We are pleased to add WiebeTech employees and their highly respected product line

Cyber detection in Malaysia

Thanks to television shows like CSI, people are now more aware of what computer forensic analysts like Aswami Fadillah Mohd Ariffin do for a living. Although what is depicted is not always accurate, the digital forensics head at Cybersecurity Malaysia

UK gov sets rules for hacker tool ban

The UK government has published guidelines for the application of a law that makes it illegal to create or distribute so-called “hacking tools”. The controversial measure is among amendments to the Computer Misuse Act included in the Police and Justice

Computer Forensics Faces Private Eye Competition

The Internet is boundless and cybercrime scenes stretch from personal desktops across the fiber networks that circle the globe. Digital forensic investigators like Harold Phipps, vice president of industry relations at Norcross Group in Norcross, Ga., routinely slip across conventional

Phone-Shield set to increase police prosecution rates

A new mobile phone faraday bag called the ‘Phone-Shield’ has been launched by Tamworth-based Disklabs, is set to increase the ability of the police to successfully and cost-effectively prosecute in cases where mobile phone data comprises an essential element of

Computer cops snare predators in their Web

For a guy who just turned 40, Chuck McMullen can turn himself into a fairly convincing teenager. So can Chad Hoffman, 35, who effortlessly sheds 20 years as he point-clicks his way between message windows of online chat rooms. They

US Law: Safe Harbor Rule Covering Inadvertent Destruction of Electronic Data

Under the recently adopted changes to the Federal Rules for Civil Procedure (FRCP), the safe harbor provision covering the inadvertent destruction of Electronically Stored Information exists, but it’s a very narrow proviso. In a recently published article, Safe Harbor: Interpreting

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