23rd June 2026

The New Age Of Investigations: Cellebrite’s Journey To Genesis 
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Cellebrite Genesis brings purpose-built agentic AI into the investigative workflow, helping agencies surface leads faster while keeping investigators in control....

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Atola Insight Forensic 5.8 Has Been Released. What’s New?

Atola Insight Forensic 5.8 Has Been Released. What’s New?

23rd June 2026

Atola Technology’s Insight Forensic 5.8 update introduces selective logical imaging of files with detected artifacts, helping investigators extract key evidence into L01 format faster without waiting for a full drive image....read more

Magnet Forensics Invites You To Take Part In The Digital Investigations In Public Safety Survey!

Magnet Forensics Invites You To Take Part In The Digital Investigations In Public Safety Survey!

23rd June 2026

Digital evidence is reshaping public safety investigations - take Magnet Forensics’ Digital Investigations in Public Safety survey to share where workflows are slowing down, help shape future best practices, and get early access to the findings....read more

Detego Global Announces Webinar Series For Investigators Across North America, India, And Africa

Detego Global Announces Webinar Series For Investigators Across North America, India, And Africa

22nd June 2026

Detego Global’s new webinar series shows investigators how to cut through growing digital evidence backlogs and turn data into actionable intelligence faster....read more

Computer techs tip police on CP

As an information technology specialist, Troy Wallwork has seen the secrets inside plenty of computers, from financial records to love letters. But when a recent search of one customer’s PC turned up what looked like CP, he didn’t know what

State funding sought to fight computer crimes in Maine

Michael Cantara gets a knot in his stomach when he thinks about the backlog of computers that have yet to be analyzed as evidence in CP cases. Cantara, commissioner of the Department of Public Safety, asked lawmakers Monday to give

Computer crime non-typical for Macedonia

A regional conference on the theme Credit Card Frauds opened in Skopje on Tuesday. SECI’s Task Force on Combating Financial and Computer Crime organized the event. The conference brought representatives of 12 member-states of the SECI Regional Center for Combating

Target checklist: Socks, shampoo, forensics

…when the tape proved too fuzzy to use, investigators turned to one of the most sophisticated forensic labs in the country to help solve the case – at the Target Corp. The retailer’s technicians cleaned up the tape and helped

How to legislate against hackers

Everyone is in favour of sending hackers to prison for longer, but technology commentator Bill Thompson wonders if our MPs are competent to make good cyber-laws… More (BBC)

Call For Papers – Digital Forensics Research Workshop (DRFWS) 2006

Call for Papers The 6th Annual Digital Forensic Research Workshop (DFRWS 2006) August 14-16, 2006 Purdue University Lafayette, Indiana, USA www.dfrws.org dfrws2006 (at) dfrws (dot) org The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers,practitioners, and educators interested in

Cyberthreats? Call a digital Sherlock Holmes

When the CEO of a small San Diego publishing company started receiving threatening e-mails from an anonymous address, he had a pretty good idea that someone in the company’s IT department was involved. The CEO called his lawyers, who in

New data deletion software for consumers

Software that its developers claim will completely eliminate sensitive data from hard drives has been developed by Nova Development. Drive Erase Pro is targeted at people who want to ensure a hard drive or memory card is truly blank before

Special agent uses teen talk and computer forensics

Most weekdays, and some weekends and nights, find Special Agent James May sitting in front of a PC in his Detroit office, waiting for some cyberjohn to hit on him. Well, not him exactly, but one of his many teenage

Chasing cyber-crime, one byte at a time

Tom Heflin is the resident surveillance technician and computer forensics expert for the Augusta County Sheriff’s office, the department’s first line of defense against computer-based crimes. His primary job: Cracking open hard drives and electronic media seized by deputies to

Battling the High Tech Crime Wave in Oregon

If your vision of a high tech criminal is a lone hacker sitting in a college dorm, think again. In just a few short years, cyber crime has evolved from the domain of individuals seeking notoriety to sophisticated organized crime

John the Ripper 1.7

Federico Biancuzzi interviews Solar Designer, creator of the popular John the Ripper password cracker. Solar Designer discusses what’s new in version 1.7, the advantages of popular cryptographic hashes, the relative speed at which many passwords can now be cracked, and

Navigating The Forensic Data Minefield

In today’s electronic environment, many high-profile cases have been solved through forensic searches of computerised media, and experienced electronic discovery professionals are now in great demand. Investigative teams should, however, remember to use electronic discovery in the context of an

NSA searches for advanced data mining tech

The National Security Agency (NSA) visited Silicon Valley this month on the hunt for private sector technology to beef up its already formidable snooping and signals intelligence portfolio. Data mining technologies to search for connections between seemingly unrelated snippets of