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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

To a new kind of sleuth, phones leave a rich trail

Dale Hanson patrolled Minneapolis’ North Side before his policing career took a major turn off the streets and he became the department’s first full-time computer forensic specialist in June 2005. The job quickly morphed into the relatively unknown territory of

Thailand’s anti-computer crime law takes effect

Information and Communications Technology Minister Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom said the law, implemented for the first time on Wednesday, to counter cyber crimes, will not affect the public’s use of computers or Internet services and was only designed to combat crimes involving

Vista makes computer search easier…for the law

An American Bar Journal eColumn article brings us relevant revelations about Vista’s improved ability to provide evidence for court. Innovations within Vista apparently make it far easier to find evidence on PCs. Chief among those are Shadow Copy, Transactional NTFS

The fight against net crime

Gathering intelligence and performing arrests requires law enforcement experience, but gathering further evidence from computers, hard drives and other electronic devices requires specialist computer forensic skills. When forensic teams arrive at a physical crime scene their goal is to not

Do-It-Yourself Forensics

All over America, vendors stand ready to solve the e-discovery problems of big, rich companies. But here’s the rub: Most American businesses are small companies that use computers – and along with individual litigants, they’re bound by the same preservation

DFRWS 2007 – Demo/Poster submissions

From Wietse on the DFSci list: “As the DFRWS 2007 conference is approaching, you can still register as a participant. Please see details at http://www.dfrws.org/2007/ If you have a new tool that you would like to demo or a poster

Electronic evidence guidance released to UK police

The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) has released a new guide to collecting electronic evidence. The Good Practice Guide for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence has been revised by experts to reflect recent developments in computer forensic investigation techniques… More (ComputerWeekly)

Persistence of data on storage media

Jamie Ridden discusses the re-use of storage media and how slack space can prevent sensitive data from being completely removed… Full article: Security Focus

FastBloc Field Edition Forensically Validated by NIST

Guidance Software announced today that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has filed its test results on the company’s FastBloc(r) FE write blocker. The Guidance Software product performed at or above expectations by the governing body, indicating that

A Push to Standards for Net Forensics

Digital forensics is still a young science. That newness, coupled with the fast-changing world of computer technology, has resulted in a digital forensics taxonomy that is poorly defined and confusing to computer security experts and law enforcement alike. Network forensics

Antiforensics: When Tools Enable the Masses

Once again, the bad guys are lining their arsenals with new tools to use against you. Computer forensics is an emerging field of study and anti-forensics is certainly developing right alongside. Some say anti-forensics is developing faster. Why? Because what

Malware targets computer forensics tool

Virus writers have created a proof-of-concept virus that targets a widely-used computer forensics tool. Vred-A infects WinHex scripts, preventing these additions to forensics and data recovery tools from doing anything except infecting other scripts. The virus has not been seen

Accessdata And Nuix Partner To Distribute Email And Data Forensic Software

SYDNEY, Australia and LINDON, Utah – June 19, 2007 – Nuix Pty and AccessData Corporation, a pioneer in the digital forensics industry, today announced a strategic partnership to globally distribute their powerful and complementary email and computer forensic software for

Shock legal move RAMs new computer forensics message home

A court case battle between the Motion Picture Association of America and one of the world’s largest online media download sites has highlighted critical issues regarding the nature of digital evidence. In a pioneering move, federal judge Jacqueline Chooljian decreed,

A Data Discovery Department?

With the buzz surrounding electronic data discovery, which grows only louder as the need to find data stored electronically to support litigation increases, law firms and corporate clients are facing an important operational decision that might cause some friction in