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

Forensic knack needed to bust cybercrimes in India

As cybercrimes in BPOs make headlines, computer forensic experts say Indian investigating agencies need to be a step ahead of the criminals in putting together sophisticated tools to discover evidence. Billions of rupees are stolen each year by criminals with

PC Pro reveals false claims of CP investigation

The UK’s biggest ever crackdown on Internet CP has been driven by misleading intelligence, causing dozens of innocent people to be falsely accused, according to PC Pro magazine. Writing exclusively in the new August issue, Duncan Campbell (an expert witness

Crime gang suspect in credit-card breach

The huge security breach that exposed more than 40 million credit cards to potential fraud appears to be the work of organized criminals, experts said Monday. The breach represents a high-tech version of “skimming,” in which criminals used a small

Policing the Internet

The offices couldn’t be more generic. The building is nondescript. There’s a sign outside the door, but they’re planning to take it down. But inside the Cyber Crimes Center in Fairfax, Va., investigators are cracking the most sensational, gut-wrenching criminal

Forensic Science: Will It Help in the War on Terror?

In January 2003, the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors – Laboratory Accreditation Board – board of delegates voted to adopt Digital Evidence as an accreditable discipline. The Investigative Technology Division conducts forensic examinations in the discipline of Digital Evidence

Investigators win award for computer forensics

A trio of investigators in Kansas, US, has won an award for a computer-based investigation. Cpl. Jeff Owen of the Missouri Highway Patrol, Mark Johnson of the U.S. attorney’s office and Curtis Howard of the St. Joseph police won the

Techno Security/CEIC 2005 conference

The Techno Security/CEIC 2005 conference (http://www.ceic2005.com) to be held June 12-15, is the proving grounds for tomorrow’s cybersecurity technology. Now in its seventh year, this conference promises to address some of the latest issues in enterprise security including incident response,

New Article: Data – The Basics of Computer Forensics

Now online… Data: The Basics of Computer Forensics by Edward Pscheidt A full list of computer forensic papers and articles at Forensic Focus can be found here. New submissions are always welcome.

Backlog mires US crime lab

SBI agent Eric R. Hicks spent last week scouring more than half a million files on one computer hard drive for evidence against a man accused of sending p**n to kids. Because he always works two cases at once, Hicks

Rise in UK public sector PC misuse

Computer fraud and abuse is on the rise in the public sector, a report by the public watchdog, the Audit Commission, has found. The number of computer fraud cases has doubled, up from 8% of cases in 2001 to 16%

Course boosts computer forensics capability in Hong Kong

To enhance officers’ computer forensics capability, the Hong Kong Police organised a two-week “Computer Forensics Certification Course” last month that 18 computer forensics examiners attended. The first part covered file system level analysis which underpins all computer forensics theories. The

PGP use ruled relevant in Minnesota

A Minnesota appeal court has ruled that a trial judge was within his rights to allow police evidence about the presence of an encryption program on a defendant’s computer to be admitted in a child abuse case. The ruling came

LanpherWilson Acquires Computer Forensic Group, Inc.

LanpherWilson Corporation today announced that it has acquired Computer Forensic Group, Inc. of Germantown, MD to form a new company called Turiss, a digital investigations and information protection firm with target markets in the corporate, legal and government arenas… More