21st May 2025

Semantics 21 CEO, Dr Liam Owens, Receives Prestigious Outstanding Contribution To Online Child Protection Award At IPPPRI 2025
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Semantics 21 CEO Dr Liam Owens receives the prestigious Outstanding Contribution to Online Child Protection award at IPPPRI 2025....

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Atola Adds iSCSI Support And Enhanced RAID Features To Its TaskForce Imagers

Atola Adds iSCSI Support And Enhanced RAID Features To Its TaskForce Imagers

20th May 2025

Atola’s latest TaskForce update adds iSCSI support, making it possible to image remote drives that can’t be physically removed—alongside major improvements to RAID handling, imaging speed, and a new built-in Hex viewer....read more

Major Step Forward For Public Safety As Forensics Europe Expo Co-Locates With The Blue Light Show

Major Step Forward For Public Safety As Forensics Europe Expo Co-Locates With The Blue Light Show

19th May 2025

Forensics Europe Expo and The Blue Light Show join forces in June 2025 to create the UK’s ultimate emergency services event—don’t miss this game-changing collaboration at Olympia London!...read more

Forensic Focus Digest, May 16 2025

Forensic Focus Digest, May 16 2025

16th May 2025

Discover what’s new on Forensic Focus – explore harmful DFIR narratives around burnout, hear career insights from Jessica Hyde, unpack key takeaways from Cellebrite’s 2025 industry survey, and more....read more

EnCase Device Configuration Overlay Data Acquisition Weakness

Arne Vidström has reported a weakness in EnCase, which can be exploited to hide information on a disk. The weakness is caused due to missing support of Device Configuration Overlays (DCO) and therefore causes the program to not acquire parts

New Paper: The Forensic Chain of Evidence Model

A paper by Atif Ahmad entitled “The Forensic Chain of Evidence Model – Improving the Process of Evidence Collection in Incident Handling Procedures” is now available online. The paper can be read here. A full list of papers and articles

Online crime – new tools, old tricks

This week virus writers took a further step into the underworld when they released a Trojan horse program that holds computer data hostage unless you pay $200. The program infects computers through a weakness in Internet Explorer. It finds files

Montana agencies left private information on discarded computers

State agencies failed to remove private information before retiring outdated state computers, risking public disclosure of Social Security and credit card numbers, medical records and income taxes, a new report discloses. The legislative audit, obtained Tuesday, blamed unclear state policy

e-Cops playing catch-up in Oz

Australia’s electronic crime investigators are at risk of being outrun by new technology, one of the country’s senior computer forensic technicians has revealed. Australian Federal Police (AFP) Electronic Evidence Forensic and Technical co-ordinator Paul Reedy said police investigators would have

eBay cybercrime chief tells UK to wise-up

Howard Schmidt, the former cybersecurity adviser to the White House, has warned that there aren’t enough trained police officers in the world to tackle cybercrime effectively. Schmidt, now the chief security strategist at auction site eBay, told delegates at the

An elite force takes on the dark side of computing

In an unmarked building in downtown Washington, Brian K. Nagel and 15 other Secret Service agents manned a high-tech command center, poised for the largest-ever roundup of a cybercrime gang. A huge map of the U.S., spread across 12 digital

New Article: The Mobile Forensic Platform

A couple of years ago, the IJDE published an article by Frank Adelstein entitled “MFP: The Mobile Forensic Platform”. With the kind permission of both Frank and the IJDE I’m delighted to reproduce the article at Forensic Focus and it

Techno Forensics 2005, Gaithersburg, Maryland

November 28-30, 2005, NIST Headquarters, Gaithersburg, Maryland www.Forensics2005.com The Inaugural Techno Forensics conference will be sponsored by the Institute of Computer Forensics Professionals (ICFP) and Hosted by NIST. The conference is founded on the principles of standardization in the field

Deloitte & Touche LLP Unveils New Electronic Evidence and Analytic Service

The Forensic & Dispute Services practice of Deloitte & Touche LLP has launched AFTnet Services, an advanced technology and analytic solution for large and complex litigation matters and forensic investigations. AFTnet Services provides client counsel and their economic and forensic

New Article: Computer Forensics 101

A new article by Susan Steen and Johnette Hassell of Electronic Evidence Retrieval, LLC entitled “Computer Forensics 101” is now online. The article can be read here.

SGI tries its hand at forensics

Police in Italy are using virtual reality technology from Silicon Graphics Inc. to re-create crime scenes on cases straight out of an episode of the hit TV show “CSI.” And it’s working. The Italian state police’s violent crime analysis unit