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

UK MP to raise bill to boost computer crime laws

Derek Wyatt, chairman of the All Party Internet Group, is to raise a 10 minute rule bill in the Commons next month calling for the Computer Misuse Act to be strengthened. The move follows a campaign by Computer Weekly, businesses

Super Resolution: Making the invisible visible

Intel is developing a technology that promises to uncover hidden information in digital images and videos and create output files of significantly higher resolution and quality. “Super Resolution” (SR) consumes enormous computing resources, but is on track to reduce the

Judge in Jackson trial: Computer images inadmissible

Computers seized from Michael Jackson’s bedroom and containing stored images of naked women from adult Web sites are not admissible at the singer’s child-molestation trial, Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville ruled Wednesday. Melville said he barred the materials because it

Kroll Ontrack Honors “Thought Leaders” in Electronic Discovery

Kroll Ontrack(R) has honored top legal professionals with its third annual Electronic Evidence Thought Leadership Awards. Award recipients include law firms, litigators, practice support professionals and scholars who have shown excellence and leadership in the field of electronic discovery. More

Crime fighters solve crimes by examining cell phones

Modern detectives are now using cell phone forensics to capture more and more criminals. Forensics, the science of preserving, extracting and examining data, has long been confined to computers. Now, with the help of cell phone seizure kits like the

Speak up to beat cybercriminals

The police have long complained that organisations that are the victims of computer crime are reluctant to come forward for fear an investigation will cripple their business as the police seize servers and PCs as evidence. On the other hand,

FBI’s new computer forensics lab already has full load

Blue lights flashed inside the Menlo Park office suite, a signal to the “propeller heads” – highly trained forensic computer examiners – that fellow FBI agents had arrived with another cyber-mystery for them to solve. This one was buried somewhere

Experts evolve new techniques to solve cyber crime

Electronic crime detection experts are working with police and forensic detectives in a Scottish university to establish new techniques to detect cyber crime, especially CP. “Anybody using a computer leaves a trail, and it’s very hard to cover that trail

FBI Computer Forensics Laboratory in “TOP 50” awards

The FBI’s Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory (RCFL) initiative has been chosen as one of the “Top 50” programs in the 2005 Innovations in American Government Awards competition. The RCFL Program is a national network of one-stop, full-service digital evidence laboratories.

UK police foil massive “online” bank theft

Police in London say they have foiled one of the biggest attempted bank thefts in Britain. The plan was to steal £220m ($423m) from the London offices of the Japanese bank Sumitomo Mitsui. Computer experts are believed to have tried

Web to have ‘terror watch’ team

Five European governments are setting up a hi-tech team to monitor how terrorists and criminals use the net. The group will make recommendations on shutting down websites that break terrorism laws. The plans for the initiative came out of a

Live each day like you’re going to be hacked

Forensics was a word repeated throughout this week’s SecureWorld conference. Experts mentioned the media firestorm that has enveloped ChoicePoint and other companies where hackers were able to steal mountains of consumer data that could eventually be used for identity theft

A Method for Forensic Previews

During any computer forensics operation, the state of the target machine must be left as undisturbed as possible. This underlying principle applies to all forensics activities, ranging from the field preview to the full blown examination in a lab. Nevertheless,

UK Government and industry back IT security professionalism plans

Proposals to create a professional institution that would set minimum standards of professionalism for IT security specialists have won backing from the government and leading businesses. The form the institute will take has yet to be decided. One of the

Video Forensics: Catching the Crooks on Camera

Watching movies and your favorite episode of CSI (Crime Scene Investigation), you would think that recorded video is always crystal clear, easily showing a suspect’s face or his license plate, but this is far from reality. In fact, the recorded