23rd September 2026

How Semantics 21 Is Calling Time On Add-On Culture In Digital Forensics
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Magnet Forensics Expands Collaboration With NCMEC To Strengthen Victim Identification

Magnet Forensics Expands Collaboration With NCMEC To Strengthen Victim Identification

22nd September 2026

Coming soon to Magnet Griffeye: new capabilities will enable investigators to securely share CSAM-related files, hashes and investigative information directly with NCMEC, helping streamline workflows and support faster child victim identification....read more

Radim Motycka, Founder, Proofsnap

Radim Motycka, Founder, Proofsnap

22nd September 2026

Why screenshots alone may not be enough: ProofSnap founder Radim Motycka explains how hashes, timestamps, WARC, network artefacts and independent verification can strengthen the preservation of web evidence....read more

Finding Answers Faster: Genesis For Private Sector Investigations

Finding Answers Faster: Genesis For Private Sector Investigations

21st September 2026

Cellebrite's Matt Goeckel demos Genesis on a real enterprise case - UFDRs, CDRs, documents, audio and video - showing how agentic AI surfaces leads and timelines while linking every finding back to its source....read more

People Power Combats Cyber Fraud

Like so many other aspects of our lives, major fraud has gone high tech. In fact, fuelled by excited media comment, computer crime and fraud are regarded as synonymous by many. But it’s important to remember that it’s not the

WVU forensics program sets up learning lab for bowl game

Mention the word criminal forensics and immediately most people think about Marg Helgenberger or David Caruso from CBS television’s popular series “CSI” and “CSI: Miami.” You know — glitz, glamour, special Hummers, and unraveling the clues to crack the case

Cyber files decoding evidence of new era

Everything about the new FBI regional computer forensics laboratory in Hamilton Township screams the word “geek.” The carpeting is emblazoned with maroon 0’s and 1’s – the binary digits to which all computer codes can be reduced. A bookshelf in

O’Reilly Releases “Internet Forensics”

…Out of curiosity, Jones began looking into various scams that arrived in his inbox. Being fairly adept at using Unix commands, he started to apply these to find out where certain web sites were located and was surprised at how

Data-Recovery Technology Arrives For SMBs

Business continuity has largely been the domain of big companies, but data-protection vendor Unitrends this week unveiled system-recovery technology at a price point that should help small and mid-size companies recover operational data as quickly as their larger counterparts should

Inside the FBI’s Computer Analysis and Response Team

Barbara Wadriski’s workplace at the FBI’s Mobile headquarters looks more like the back shop of a computer store than a crime lab. Surrounded by work stations, a long table holds the guts of various computers. Equipment in various stages of

Tracked by cellphone

We know that technology can be used to track people’s location via a cellphone, but how difficult is it for law enforcement to get a court order and do this legally? More (Security Focus)

Cybercrime more profitable than drugs

The proceeds of cybercrime now exceed that of the illegal drugs industry, a US Treasury advisor has claimed. According to Valerie McNiven, former World Bank security expert, the turnover of electronically-related crime exceeded $105 billion in 2004, for the first

New Computer Crime Lab to Help Wyoming, Colorado Authorities

The Rocky Mountain Regional Computer Forensic Laboratory, the tenth such regional laboratory in the country established and operated with the help of the FBI, is due to officially open January 18. Officials say the lab will greatly improve investigators’ capacity

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Digital Forensic Readiness: Are You In?

As we approach a pervasive computing society, are you prepared for the challenge of using digital forensics to reconstruct a compromise? More (EIT)

Computer forensics tools maker hacked

Guidance Software had to do a forensic investigation on its own systems after a hacker broke in and accessed records, including credit card data, of thousands of customers. The attack occurred in November, but wasn’t discovered until Dec. 7, John

What is the Scope of Computer Forensics?

Jety asks: “I do general-purpose tech support for a variety of individuals and small businesses. Today, one of my clients presented me with an interesting situation, which made me recommend that he get his own attorneys and computer forensics experts

How to Keep a Digital Chain of Custody

Christine has very kindly mailed me with the following useful link: How to Keep a Digital Chain of Custodyhttp://www.csoonline.com/read/120105/ht_custody.html

Matching photographs to a camera’s “fingerprint”

Because almost all digital photos, including those used as evidence in court, are vulnerable to tampering, computer scientists and others are busy advancing the state of the art in digital forensics… More (Technology Review)