12th August 2025

Well-Being In Digital Forensics And Policing: Insights From Hannah Bailey
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Hannah Bailey shares her journey from frontline policing to founding Blue Light Wellbeing, explaining why culturally-aware mental health support is crucial for DFIs and frontline workers....

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Oxygen Tech Bytes In July 2025

Oxygen Tech Bytes In July 2025

12th August 2025

Level up your DFIR skills in under 20 minutes with Oxygen Tech Bytes’ expert-led, on-demand webinars....read more

Neal Ysart, Co-Founder, The Coalition Of Cyber Investigators

Neal Ysart, Co-Founder, The Coalition Of Cyber Investigators

11th August 2025

Neal Ysart shares how The Coalition of Cyber Investigators tackles OSINT integrity, complex investment fraud, and the rise of AI-driven scams....read more

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

Real-life CSI vastly different than what’s on TV

Crime scene investigators for the Warner Robins Police Department (US) have a lot of the crime-fighting gadgets that actors do on the popular CSI television shows. And there are other similarities between what real-life CSI investigators do and what’s portrayed

Computer based crime linked to international crime syndicates

Andrew Clark, director and co-founder of Inforenz, spends much of his time as an expert forensics witness for the UK government, banks, and MNCs. He notes that there are signs that computer-based crimes are becoming the province of international organised

Digital evidence: Today’s fingerprints

Police and prosecutors are fashioning a new weapon in their arsenal against criminals: digital evidence. The sight of hard drives, Internet files and e-mails as courtroom evidence is increasingly common. “Digital evidence is becoming a feature of most criminal cases,”

DOD seized 60TB in search for Iraq battle plan leak

The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) seized hundreds of computers and around 60T bytes of data as part of an investigation into how details of the U.S. invasion plan for Operation Iraqi Freedom were leaked to The New York Times,

UK tech police: Cash-strapped and ineffective

A senior UK high-tech crime buster has warned that his investigations are being severely hampered by a lack of money and has said funding could still be pared down further to the point that police units such as his become

Web police to fight paedophiles

Police and major internet companies around the world have launched a website on which children can report their suspicions about the activities of possible paedophiles. Microsoft and AOL will put a link on their websites to the Virtual Global Task

Ontario schools enlist CyberCops to protect students

A video game endorsed by the Ontario government and its provincial police will turn elementary school students into computer forensics experts in order to teach them about the dangers of the Internet. The Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services

ManTech Donates NetWitness Software to ”SEARCH”

ManTech International Corporation, a provider of technologies and solutions focused on mission-critical national security programs for the Department of Defense, the Intelligence Community, the Department of State, the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security and other U.S. federal

Learn to retrieve data in Modesto CA

Kirk Stockham, a retired computer forensics investigator, will show members of the Modesto PC Users Group how to find hidden data on a hard drive. He will also explain how to recover data that may have been accidentally erased and

High-tech sleuths set up shop in Manhattan

A Gresham-based computer forensics consulting group has launched a cross-country expansion, opening an office in Manhattan last month. NTI Breakwater, a division of Seattle-based Breakwater Security Associates, hopes to keep a central laboratory in the Portland area while opening offices

“Forensic Discovery” by Dan Farmer and Wietse Venema

Just a quick note to let everyone know that a new book, “Forensic Discovery”, by Dan Farmer and Wietse Venema is now available from Amazon.com (ISBN 020163497X). For some reason it appears to be listed under the title “Internet Security”

NZ computer expert aids US murder case

A New Zealand computer forensics expert is helping American investigators gather evidence against the woman accused of murdering a pregnant Missouri woman and kidnapping her unborn child. Daniel Ayers, of McCallum Petterson in Auckland, was approached by an FBI-sponsored forensic

DOD cyber sleuths swap secrets in Florida

The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is making changes to streamline its response to online threats across the various branches of the military, and deal with a steady stream of new online woes, from hacking attempts to child pornography and

Hard drives, hard facts

In Montgomery County’s (US) computer forensic department, Det. Ray Kuter’s workload has grown steadily during the past four years. Kuter heads the forensic laboratory. Computer forensic analysis has come of age in recent years and is now routinely performed to

Digital lifesaver

Problems encountered in daily life often spawn new business concepts. But few problems are as severe as those encountered by Brady Essman, the 36-year- old president, CEO and founder of digitalmedix, an Englewood-based data retrieval and computer forensics firm. Essman’s

FBI Opens New Bay Area Forensics Lab

They are the types of evidence now linking virtually every case the FBI investigates – high-tech devices used by criminals. Now the FBI is sharing its high-tech tools with Bay Area law enforcement by opening a new forensics lab. More