11th July 2025

Forensic Focus Digest, July 11 2025
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Discover what’s new on Forensic Focus – addressing mental health in DFIR, insights from Staffordshire Police’s Davinder Sangha, tackling image-based abuse with Sophie Mortimer, highlights from Forensics Europe Expo 2025, and more....

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Guidance Software Corporation, the leader in computer forensics and incident response solutions and Vericept Corporation, the leading provider of comprehensive compliance and content control solutions, today announced a strategic partnership to provide customers with a dynamic and adaptive incident management

Organisations need a digital evidence plan

Businesses could lose legal disputes and miss out on insurance claims because of their inability to collect and preserve computer and internet-based evidence, experts have warned. While firms are investing heavily in disaster recovery plans for low-probability events such as

New paper: The Enhanced Digital Investigation Process Model

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Policing the internet will take more than law

While forming new legislation can help in the fight against cyber crime, it’s misguided to think law is the single most important factor here, says Brian White. We need more forensic officers and better education… More (silicon.com)

New Missouri Southern degree helps catch cyber criminals

With the growing number and popularity of CSI shows on television, there’s an increasing interest in forensics. With that in mind, there is a forensics class that coincides with computer skills. For about two years, Missouri Southern has offered some

Detectives of the future to be trained on Wearside

The University of Sunderland is launching the BSc in Forensic Computing to teach students the latest technologies that are being used to help catch criminals. The four-year degree will give students a grounding in the advanced technologies used by modern-day

What’s on your hard drive?

Companies and consumers are failing to take note of the importance of properly cleaning data off their hard drives before selling or discarding them. And with a proliferation of removable storage media such as compact flash cards and SD cards

Cyber Crime Fears Grow in the Bahamas

Attorney General Alfred Sears said on Tuesday the use of computers in criminal activity within the financial industry is growing. Minister Sears made the comment after giving opening remarks at the Caribbean Cyber crime workshop at the British Colonial Hilton

The growing digital forensics industry

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Missouri Southern State University purchases LogiCube MD5

The Criminal Justice Department at Missouri Southern State University recently purchased a LogiCube MD5 to enhance its Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) program.The MD5 is used by the F.B.I., D.E.A., A.T.F., Interpol and other major international law enforcement agencies to secure

Secret Service takes lead fighting financial crimes

About once a month, more than three dozen area law enforcement and corporate investigators gather at Chef’s Restaurant to compare notes. The informal assembly, known as the Financial and Electronic Crimes Working Group, meets regularly to share information on crime

The cost of online anonymity

Digital evidence expert at the London School of Economics, Peter Sommer says: “A few years ago I was very much in favour of libertarian computing. “What changed my mind was the experience of acting in the English courts as a

RCFL Network Launches 9th Laboratory

The Northwest Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory (NWRCFL) officially opened yesterday in Portland, Oregon. The NWRCFL will supply digital forensics expertise and training to hundreds of law enforcement agencies throughout all of Oregon and southwestern Washington. The NWRCFL is the ninth

Alternative browsers pose challenge for cybersleuths

Internet Explorer hides nothing from police and other investigators who examine PCs to discover which sites the user has visited, according to a class held Wedensday at the annual training meeting of the High Tech Crime Investigation Association. Investigators know