3rd July 2026

Forensic Focus Digest, July 03 2026
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Discover what’s new on Forensic Focus – explore digital evidence investigations with David Shipley, deepfake image analysis with Amped Software, RAID forensics with Atola Technology, Cellebrite’s journey to Genesis, and more....

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Passware Kit Mobile 2026v4 Decrypts Qualcomm-Based Samsung S20

Passware Kit Mobile 2026v4 Decrypts Qualcomm-Based Samsung S20

1st July 2026

Passware Kit Mobile 2026 v4 expands Samsung S20 decryption coverage, speeds up password recovery with caching and batch optimizations, and adds support for more iOS, Huawei, and Android devices....read more

UPCOMING WEBINAR – AI Is The Hot Sauce: From Data Overload To Investigative Insight

UPCOMING WEBINAR – AI Is The Hot Sauce: From Data Overload To Investigative Insight

30th June 2026

Join Cellebrite’s July 7 webinar to learn how responsible AI can help investigators connect evidence, uncover insights faster, and maintain the transparency and defensibility every case demands—register now....read more

Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference East 2026 Returned To Myrtle Beach

Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference East 2026 Returned To Myrtle Beach

30th June 2026

Explore key highlights from Techno East 2026 and see what’s ahead as the community returns to Myrtle Beach in 2027....read more

Georgia law HB 1259

A new law in Georgia on private investigators now extends to computer forensics and computer incident response, meaning that forensics experts who testify in court without a PI license may be committing a felony… More (Security Focus)

The Digital Detectives

FBI computer forensic examiners Tim Huff and Tony Pallone unlock the secrets inside hundreds of computers each year… More (Popular Mechanics)

Computer forensics and email discovery

On March 1, 2005, the giant US bank Morgan Stanley learned that it had effectively lost a $US1.45 billion fraud case. It lost, not because there was evidence that it had conspired to mis-state the value of assets and stock

Vontu and Guidance Software Announce Agreement to Automate Investigations

Vontu, Inc., the leader in data loss prevention solutions, and Guidance Software, the world leader in computer investigations, today announced a partnership to deliver an integrated solution for automating data security investigations. The combined solution enables customers to detect the

QuickStudy: Computer forensics

Computer forensics is the application of specialized investigative and analytic techniques to identify, collect, examine and preserve data from computer systems or networks so that it may serve as evidence in a court of law. More narrowly, the term applies

Hard-driving police agents monitor computer crime

Confiscated computers line shelves at Bay City’s FBI office, waiting for detectives to check them for CP. A storeroom bursts with piles of pirated music, software, movies and video games. It’s hard evidence that ”cyber crime” is thriving in the

Cheat Sheet: The (UK) Computer Misuse Act

Key recommendations are an increase in the sentences handed down to hackers – or anybody illegally accessing somebody else’s computer while up to no good. This will be increased from six months to two years. This will be seen as

LE in the Philippines to request digital forensics budget

The Philippine National Police (PNP) and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) are teaming up to request for additional budget to build both agencies’ digital forensics infrastructure. NBI Anti-Fraud and Computer Crimes Division (AFCCD) Director Atty. Elfren Meneses told INQ7.NET

Alabama prosecutors hiring cyber sleuths in digital forensics

When a computer, cell phone, e-mail or other high-tech device holds the key to a crime, cyber sleuths are called to dissect the digital evidence. In south Alabama, it’s Gus Dimitrelos, who is based in a Spanish Fort police office

Philadelphia School to Offer Computer Forensics

To meet the growing demand for people to investigate computer crime, Bloomsburg University is adding a major in computer forensics. Bloomsburg this fall will become the first school in the State System of Higher Education to offer the degree… More

Deleting May Be Easy, but Your Hard Drive Still Tells All

It was only a single digit in a 20-page Microsoft Word contract between two partners, but Scott Cooper earned his fee several years ago when he found it. Mr. Cooper, a computer forensics expert, learned that the numeral “1” had

Hard Disk Drive Organization Announces New Sector Length Standard

IDEMA, the International Disk Drive, Equipment, and Materials Association, has announced the results of an industry committee assembled to identify a new and longer sector standard for future magnetic hard disk drives (HDDs). This Committee recommended replacing the 30 year-standard

Conference on Digital Forensics (Las Vegas) schedule

The schedule for the Conference on Digital Forensics to be held in Las Vegas at the Imperial Palace Hotel on April 20 and 21 is planned as follows (click “Read More” below)…THURSDAY 09:30am-11:00am Registration & Continental Breakfast 11:00am-12:00pm session I1)

NHTCU disappears into SOCA

The UK Government yesterday launched the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). One function of SOCA is to replace the National Hi Tech Crime Unit. The NHTCU, launched in April 2001, was the UK’s first national law enforcement organisation dealing exclusively