24th July 2026

Forensic Focus Digest, July 24 2026
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Explore the impact of cumulative trauma on digital forensic investigators, faster triage with ADF Pro, feature-phone recovery using MSAB XRY Pro, and Katelyn Rogers’ Chip ID Framework and SpecTacular....

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Investigating Synology RAID: Reassembly & Logical Imaging With Atola TaskForce 2

Investigating Synology RAID: Reassembly & Logical Imaging With Atola TaskForce 2

23rd July 2026

Reconstruct Synology SHR and SHR-2 automatically, browse evidence before imaging, and acquire only the files you need with Atola TaskForce 2....read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, July 22 2026

Digital Forensics Round-Up, July 22 2026

22nd July 2026

Read the latest DFIR news – SQLite tips for mobile analysts, serverless forensics, Signal database decoding, AI image detection in iLEAPP and ALEAPP, Linux timeline tooling, macOS triage updates, and more....read more

Making Media Evidence Searchable: Media Forensics With Belkasoft X

Making Media Evidence Searchable: Media Forensics With Belkasoft X

22nd July 2026

Turn thousands of photos, recordings, and videos into searchable evidence with Belkasoft X and offline AI-powered BelkaGPT, helping investigators spend less time on manual review and more time on what matters....read more

IT chiefs need forensic expertise

Firms need more staff with computer forensic skills and should lobby suppliers for safer products, according to speakers at last week’s E-Crime Congress in London. Simon Janes of data recovery vendor Ibas, and former head of Scotland Yard’s Computer Crime

City to take aim at high-tech criminals

An increase in high-tech crime is forcing police to undergo special training to successfully investigate such cases. To ensure there are enough trained investigators the Thousand Oaks City Council approved a $40,207 payment last week to help fund three new

Schenectady IT company spins off burgeoning forensics business

Jeffrey Trombly doesn’t have a Sam Spade-style fedora or a Sherlock Holmesian deerstalker cap, but he is in the detective business. Trombly is half of the two-man IT company that does business as Empire Technology Solutions. He has been doing

UB, FBI and ECC to Co-Host Cybersecurity Workshop

Buffalo is fast becoming a center for research, education and new practices in cybersecurity and computer forensics, according to the hosts of a workshop on these topics to be held March 31 in the Center for Tomorrow on the University

Computer Forensics Helping Texas Police Statewide

He is alone in front of his computer, and with the click of a button, his crime is erased – or so the technically savvy criminal may think. And to extract the evidence from computer hard drives, cell phones, personal

Private Forensic Examinations in RIAA case

As part of their investigation into illegal music downloading, the RIAA demanded full access to a suspect’s computer, which the accused felt was a violation of her privacy. The judge agreed with her and is letting her hire her own

The effective response to computer crime

The attraction of computer-based crime is obvious. Twenty years ago corporate spies would find it difficult to steal the entire contents of a filing cabinet, but today they can take far more by slipping a disc into their pocket or

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

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)