David Shipley: Investigating The Darkest Corners Of Digital Evidence

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David Shipley joins the Forensic Focus Podcast to talk about the human cost of online safeguarding work and his fight to close a gap in UK law....

Deepfake Forensics: How To Analyze Suspected AI-Generated Images

Deepfake Forensics: How To Analyze Suspected AI-Generated Images

Deepfake forensics goes far beyond pressing a detection button: Amped Software explores why suspected AI-generated or manipulated images require a structured, explainable, and defensible forensic workflow....read more

Cellebrite Genesis: Get Case Insights In Minutes

Cellebrite Genesis: Get Case Insights In Minutes

Cellebrite Genesis uses agentic AI to help investigators analyse complex digital evidence, surface connections, and move from data to actionable intelligence faster....read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, June 24 2026

Digital Forensics Round-Up, June 24 2026

Read the latest DFIR news - AI tools for digital investigations, SQLite forensic recovery, memory forensics workflows, vehicle location analysis, and more....read more

Internet infidelity target of a new book

The opening chapter of John Paul Lucich’s new book is titled “Welcome to My World.” And a grim, labyrinthine world it is. A computer forensics expert who specializes in computer security and corporate fraud cases, Lucich is the author of

F.R.E.D. Helps Fight 21st Century Crime

Its name is F.R.E.D. Forensic Recovery of Evidence Device. Whether it’s credit card fraud, hacking, CP, or enticing children online, FRED can help find it. Only two police departments in the Fox Valley – Grand Chute and Fond du Lac

The long arm of the law in the UK extends to data storage

Governments worldwide are placing companies under increasing scrutiny as corporate failures and fraud, from Enron to Shell, from WorldCom to Nortel, have demonstrated the requirement for legislation and regulation. UK businesses are challenged more than ever before by electronic data

E-mail privacy in the workplace

Even with a well-heeled corporate privacy policy stating that all employee communications may be monitored in the workplace, the legality of e-mail monitoring is not as clear cut as one might think… More (SecurityFocus)

Police team-ups beat Nigeria’s scammers

Globally, Nigeria has become associated with what is known as “advance fee” or 419 fraud. Virtually anyone with an email account will be familiar with this crime, which involves sending emails or faxes to potential victims around the world, sucking

Computer forensics: The new DNA

Within a week of discovering computer equipment in the bombed-out safehouse of slain terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, U.S. and Iraqi forces carried out more than 450 raids targeting followers of al-Qaida’s leader in Iraq. The vital information that led to

Georgia lacks forensic computer specialists

Law enforcement in Georgia is behind in getting the training needed to keep pace with a rise in computer-related crimes, causing delays in cases, some Georgia law enforcement officials said. “We just need more of a commitment from law enforcement,

Philippine National Police gets forensic hardware from US

The Philippine National Police (PNP) Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (cidg) received on Friday eight-million pesos’ worth of computer forensic hardware and software from the United States Department of State Anti-terrorism Assistance Program… More (inq7.net)

“MANDIANT Web Historian v1.3” Forensic Software released

MANDIANT has announced an upgrade to their popular MANDIANT Web Historian software. Web Historian assists users in reviewing websites (URLs) that are stored in the history files of the most commonly used browsers including: Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape,

Five Things UBS Did Right, And Five Things to Improve Upon

The government’s forensics investigator spent more than three years pouring over UBS’ records and analyzing its network. in preparation for the computer sabotage trial. Here are his top five lists for what the company did right after the attack, and

Cops and robbers find new uses for mobile phones

Mobile phones are changing the lives of both criminals and the investigators that hunt them, mobile phone security experts said at the Infosecurity conference held in New York on Wednesday. With constantly improving storage and processing power, a mobile phone

E-crime centre to fight cyber-crims in NZ

New Zealand Police plan to set up a high-tech crime reporting centre, in partnership with other government agencies, such as CCIP (Centre for Critical Infrastructure Protection) and DIA (Department of Internal Affairs), says Maarten Kleintjes, head of the New Zealand

AFS becomes authorised CCE training and testing centre

Australian Forensic Services (AFS) has recently obtained the exclusive rights to provide CCE training in Australia. The CCE certification is rapidly growing in size and recognition with over 400 Certified Computer Examiners worldwide and an additional 200 applicants currently in