12th August 2025

Well-Being In Digital Forensics And Policing: Insights From Hannah Bailey
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Hannah Bailey shares her journey from frontline policing to founding Blue Light Wellbeing, explaining why culturally-aware mental health support is crucial for DFIs and frontline workers....

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Oxygen Tech Bytes In July 2025

Oxygen Tech Bytes In July 2025

12th August 2025

Level up your DFIR skills in under 20 minutes with Oxygen Tech Bytes’ expert-led, on-demand webinars....read more

Neal Ysart, Co-Founder, The Coalition Of Cyber Investigators

Neal Ysart, Co-Founder, The Coalition Of Cyber Investigators

11th August 2025

Neal Ysart shares how The Coalition of Cyber Investigators tackles OSINT integrity, complex investment fraud, and the rise of AI-driven scams....read more

Forensic Focus Digest, August 08 2025

Forensic Focus Digest, August 08 2025

8th August 2025

Discover what’s new on Forensic Focus – explore the balance between expertise and efficiency in digital forensics, tackle the challenges of multi-jurisdictional investigations, and learn how transforming organisational culture can improve mental health in the field....read more

Document metadata

Few things in the world of digital documents are as pesky and revealing as “metadata” – the information automatically embedded in documents by popular software such as Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat. When the government or a business forgets to

If a computer holds a clue, this lab will find it

What’s the best way to get into a criminal’s head? One group of area sleuths knows: Get into their computers. That’s what the men and women assigned to the Heart of America Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory do every day in

Technology Pathways Releases Freeware Forensic Software

Technology Pathways, LLC announced today the release of ProDiscover® Basic, a new freeware version of the ProDiscover Family of Computer Forensic Software…ProDiscover Basic provides a complete computer forensic solution including the ability to collect, preserve, analyze, and report on computer

Meet Bergen’s top cyber cop

Paramus detectives investigating a money-laundering scheme had confiscated a computer they suspected held crucial evidence. But its hard drive apparently had been wiped clean. At the time, many North Jersey police departments lacked the technical savvy and financial resources to

Detective combats rising computer crime

Detective Josh Moulin is a criminal forensic expert quite unlike the well-dressed heroes you see stalking bad guys across a fictional Miami every Monday night on CBS. Moulin spends his nights examining computers. He dissects them in a bland windowless

TVN’s Studio content digitally watermarked

In a recent announcement TVN Entertainment outlined that it will be using Widevine’s Mensor technology to watermark its entire VOD content line up. In the emerging digital forensics market, fingerprinting and watermarking provide another layer of security that enables content

UK MP tables modernisation of Computer Misuse Act

In summer 2003, the then e-crime minister Caroline Flint promised to answer growing disquiet about Britain’s computer crime laws by strengthening the Computer Misuse Act. But if a week is a long time in politics, a year and a half

Dealing with the data mountain

The sheer number and volume of current storage devices can be tough for the average computer user to handle, but what about computer investigators that must look for criminal information? Criminals try to hide information on their 200 GByte harddrives

Real Digital Forensics

Another computer forensics book hits the shelves, along with accompanying website: http://www.realdigitalforensics.com/ If anyone’s read it please post a review to the forums.

Computer forensics: Donning your detective hat

“Quincy, ME,” the 1970s TV series, showed the dramatic potential of medical examiners. We’re waiting now for the premier of “Quincy, CF.” Computer forensics is playing an increasingly important role in thwarting wrongdoers at the federal, state and local level…

How CSI got computer forensics wrong

A team of computer forensic investigators has pointed out that a character in a recent episode of hit TV show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation failed to follow a basic rule of looking for evidence: don’t switch on the computer… More

Electronic data legislation in the UK

From casual e-mails to information on your iPod, electronic data can now be required as court evidence. Jonathon Crook, Jonathan Tardif and Andrew Szczech assess the business implications following recent changes to the Civil Procedure Rules… More (LegalWeek)

High tech hunt underway in pilfering of SSJID’s files

A computer forensic expert is continuing to pour over hundreds of South San Joaquin Irrigation District files that were “improperly accessed” to determine who — if anyone — should be pursued for prosecution… More (Manteca Bulletin)

FBI Hunkered in The Bunker

Imagine you have this going for you: the best the world’s only super power can give you in personnel, intelligence, hardware and software with cost overruns no problem. Meet Steve Martinez, cyber G-man… More (internetnews.com)