7th August 2025

The Balance Between Digital Forensic Examiners And Digital Evidence Technicians: Expertise Vs. Efficiency
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Can digital forensic labs cut backlogs without cutting corners? Debbie Garner explores how tiered workflows using both examiners and technicians can strike the right balance....

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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

More Than Software: Amped Training Teaches You The Science Of Forensic Video And Image Analysis

More Than Software: Amped Training Teaches You The Science Of Forensic Video And Image Analysis

7th August 2025

Push past button-clicking—Amped Software training teaches the science behind forensic video analysis....read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 06 2025

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 06 2025

6th August 2025

Read the latest DFIR news – starting a digital forensic business, Hashcat v7.0.0, GenAI incident response guidance, cross-border investigation challenges, and more....read more

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

The increasing use of devices like cell phones, PDAs, and USB drives is also expanding the number of digital footprints people leave. Those footprints are potentially valuable for prosecutors looking to establish a suspect’s motives are whereabouts related to a

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

New South Wales workplace watchdog law ‘a formality’

The use of email and computer facilities in NSW workplaces will be under watch from October when the Workplace Surveillance Act comes into force, but the head of an email security firm says there is nothing to fear. Peter Croft,

ICTA starts training in computer crimes enforcement for Sri Lanka police

When draft legislation for computer crimes was submitted to parliament recently, the Ministry of Defence together with the Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) took necessary steps to establish a Computer Crimes Unit at the Police Department.

New forensic computing company in the UK – Innovision

Andy, one of our longest standing members and forum regular, has moved into private practice with the establishment of Innovision, a forensic data investigation service based in the UK. I asked Andy to sum up the services his firm will

Submissions Being Accepted for Timothy Fidel Award

PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ – Building on the success of the inaugural Timothy Fidel Memorial Award, Guidance Software along with AccessData, today announced the Timothy Fidel Memorial Award Committee. The Committee was created as the decision making body for

Computer forensic experts to track copied Clio e-mails

The [Clio] Board of Education voted unanimously Monday to hire a computer forensics company to investigate e-mail tampering in the district. Board members said they hope the investigation by Southfield-based Center for Computer Forensics reveals who has gained access to

Forensics is not just a word for cops

Last year, two employees of AdvantaCare Health Partners resigned and launched their own start-up. Prior to leaving, they copied patient databases, confidential business plans, and other trade secrets, and used this information to compete with AdvantaCare. Before leaving, they tried

Group honors high-tech work on BTK

A Wichita police detective who helped solve the BTK murder cases has won an international crime investigation award. Detective Randy Stone, whose computer sleuthing provided a turning point in the hunt for BTK, will be given an award for “forensics