13th August 2026

Protecting Those Who Protect Children: Inspection Findings And The Evidence Base For Investigator Well-Being
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A major new HMICFRS report exposes the urgent need for proactive, mandatory mental health support for digital forensic investigators and others working daily with online child sexual abuse material....

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UPCOMING WEBINAR – Reducing ICAC Backlogs: Prioritizing Digital Evidence For Faster Investigations

UPCOMING WEBINAR – Reducing ICAC Backlogs: Prioritizing Digital Evidence For Faster Investigations

13th August 2026

Join Rich Frawley of ADF Solutions as he shares practical strategies for managing complex ICAC scenes, prioritizing the devices most likely to contain probative evidence, and making faster, more informed decisions in the field....read more

Unmasked: Early Intelligence Should Not Be Manual

Unmasked: Early Intelligence Should Not Be Manual

12th August 2026

Turn partial school badges into actionable leads with S21 School Badge Lookup v2.0, fast offline image intelligence built for CSAM and ICAC investigations worldwide....read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 12 2026

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 12 2026

12th August 2026

Read the latest DFIR news - NIST’s new ArtCat digital forensics catalog, Kohberger case methodology, Android intrusion log analysis, offline AI with BelkaGPT, and more....read more

UK government’s encryption key plan could backfire, warns expert

The clause of a law which forces people to hand over encryption keys will be activated after controversy delayed its implementation for six years. But one security expert has warned that the law itself could cause more criminals to turn

Newport Uni, Wales, launches computer forensics course

Newport University’s Business School will launch a graduate course in computer forensics this September. Speaking at the B2B Wales event in Cardiff, Tony Corner, head of computing at Newport Business School, and Eric Llewellyn, senior lecturer in computing, announced the

Forensics day in UK will reveal tracing techniques

What happens if a suspect deliberately attempts to remove all traces of his activity from his PC? This and other forensic issues will be covered on 12 July in London at a seminar run by BCS’s Information Security SG. Full

Computer Forensics Firm Warns of Web Mole Threat

UK computer forensics firm, Zentek Forensics, claims that whilst web-jacking is a new phenomena for home PC users, similar techniques are being widely-used in commercial environments. Web-jacking involves planting a Trojan on a PC or server in order to gain

Retain or restrain access logs?

A recent proposal by the U.S. Department of Justice that would mandate Internet Service Providers to retain certain records represents a dangerous trend of turning private companies into proxies for law enforcement or intelligence agencies against the interests of their

Merging to Better Track Computer Crimes

Vacant space in the City-County Building has Madison Police and the Dane County Sheriff’s Department is expanding their computer crime units. And it’s not just about more space – it’s about handling more cases. The new city/county computer crime facility

UK looks to get tough on cybercrime

Tightening up existing legislation will help UK authorities to prosecute hackers better and put them in prison longer – but analysts question whether the moves will constrict an explosive growth in costly cybercrime. The UK has sought to tighten the

Professor helps bust cyber criminals

Marcus Rogers started as a beat cop, but it’s what he did on the side that led him to busting cyber crooks. Now an associate professor of computer technology, Rogers used to run his own Internet service provider and build

Cybercrime spurs college courses in digital forensics

One of the hottest new courses on U.S. college campuses is a direct result of cybercrime. Classes in digital forensics — the collection, examination and presentation of digitally stored evidence in criminal and civil investigations — are cropping up as

Detective describes computer sleuthing

Detective Randy Stone carried a shotgun as he walked up to help serve a search warrant on the house at 11944 W. Rolling Hills Court just before Christmas. Stone, a Sedgwick County computer forensic expert and SWAT team member, helped

Dealing with computerised evidence

The overriding principle concerning all phases of seizing and processing electronic evidence i.e. seized computers, disks and other media, should be never to alter the evidence from its original state. This should ensure its admissibility in court or other legal

Hard disk detective

Andy Harbison’s business card may read ‘senior manager, enterprise risk services’ and his reputation is as one of the country’s foremost computer forensics practitioners but it’s hard to escape the impression that he could tell you a thing or two

Funding to Boost Forensic Testing in Alabama

Computer forensics labs in Alabama will receive $987,227 from the U.S. Department of Justice, according to Sen. Richard Shelby. The money will be routed through the Alabama District Attorneys Association. According to a news release form Shelby’s officer, the ADAA

High-Tech Crimes Overwhelm Small-Town Police

Identity theft and other computer crimes are overwhelming police departments in many of Wisconsin’s smaller towns and villages. They simply don’t have the resources to go after high-tech criminals. Denmark Police Chief Ron Towns considers his community safe. What’s becoming

Binghamton University research links digital images and cameras

CPers will soon have a harder time escaping prosecution thanks to a stunning new technology in development at Binghamton University, State University of New York, that can reliably link digital images to the camera with which they were taken, in

Cop leads crackdown on internet fraudsters

An Internet supercop has been appointed to track down online fraudsters. Detective Constable Scott Rennie will spearhead investigations into crooks using auction website eBay. The move by Strathclyde Police comes as internet crime in the UK has soared to a