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....

Forensic Focus Digest, August 08 2025

Forensic Focus Digest, August 08 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

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

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

Stopping Computer Crime

Stopping computer crime requires two basic things: You need to let criminals know it won’t be tolerated by reporting and prosecuting, and tell the world what these crimes are and how folks can avoid being a victim. It’s not enough

Meticulous cybersleuth takes on high-tech cases

Just call William Simon the Sherlock Holmes of computers. The cyberspace sleuth would love the comparison. In fact, he named his business, Abberline Investigations, after his distant cousin Frederick Abberline, a Victorian-era Scotland Yard investigator. The licensed private investigator, with

Detective, check that hard drive

Noble Dean will graduate from Purdue University for the second time in December with his master’s degree in science and technology. His degree has taught the 31-year-old to look at the world in an entirely different light. “This,” he said,

E-mail Discovery Primer for Legal Professionals

A Non-Technical Primer – Taught by Warren Kruse and Steven Branigan. From the comfort of your home or office anytime 24 hours/day, 7 days/week. What do you need to know when making or receiving an Electronic Discovery request pertaining to

Easy to defeat computer forensics

Breaking into computer networks and remaining untraceable after the breach has been detected is apparently easier than anyone would like it to be, said The Grugq, a Britain-based hacker. The Grugq, who refused to reveal his true identity, said remaining

Data recovery, Australian style

A couple of Australian coppers have used their forensic expertise to create a software company that has chalked up success in Europe and Japan. And by Christmas they will be showing the Yanks how as well. The two “dumped-data detectives”

FBI agents use computer forensics to arrest sexual predators

It’s not surprising that FBI Special Agent Tom Veivia considers himself an overprotective parent. In a cramped room equipped with eight computers, Veivia works with undercover agents and police officers in the Innocent Images National Initiative. Working late evening and

Jackson Local Law Enforcement Learns to Fight Cyber Crime

In the world of cyber crimes, law enforcement officials need the same computer skills as criminals to fight back. This week, metro area law enforcement is getting the ammunition to fight the growing number of computer crime suspects. More (WLBT)

High-Tech Crimes Revealed: An Interview with Stephen Branigan

Stephen Branigan, one of the founders of the New York City task force on cybercrime and author of High-Tech Crimes Revealed: Cyberwar Stories from the Digital Front, talks to Seth Fogie about hacker motivations and how to solve cyber crimes.

Computer expert challenges barge defendant’s testimony

A computer forensics expert says a critical document presented to jurors was edited on one of the defendants’ work computers – contradicting the defendant’s testimony last week. That’s the latest in the fraud and conspiracy trial of four former Merrill

Sleuthing in the e-files

These days, the search for truth takes lawyers not into company file cabinets but into company computers. With 93 percent of business documents now “borne” electronically, the story of U.S. workplaces increasingly gets told on computer disks, spread sheets and

Forensic experts track printer fingerprints

Researchers at Purdue University have developed image analysis techniques that may one day help tie counterfeit money and forged documents to the printers that produced them. In lab experiments, the researchers examined documents that came from 12 different models of

Computer search hamstrung in Camden County, USA

Federal agents found CP links on a computer that had been sitting in the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office for seven months after it was seized from a Bellmawr man. But there was little authorities could have done to search the