29th September 2026

Roadblocks Ahead! Navigating The Major Issues Of Mobile Forensics
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Magnet Forensics' Christopher Vance tackles the biggest roadblocks in mobile forensics, from keeping a seized phone isolated, powered and safe from reboot timers to handling 1TB devices and proprietary data....

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Belkasoft Releases Belkasoft X v2.12, Adding Offline Translation And AI-Assisted Database Analysis

Belkasoft Releases Belkasoft X v2.12, Adding Offline Translation And AI-Assisted Database Analysis

29th September 2026

Belkasoft X 2.12 brings offline AI-powered translation, smarter SQLite analysis, expanded mobile and Windows evidence support, and more flexible acquisition workflows....read more

Green Meets Blue: A Brief RCS Forensic Excursion

Green Meets Blue: A Brief RCS Forensic Excursion

29th September 2026

What does RCS mean for digital forensics? MSAB Digital Forensic Specialist Markus Hess breaks down how RCS works, who uses it and where investigators can find the forensic evidence....read more

ADF Solutions Named A Major Player In IDC MarketScape For Worldwide Digital Forensics Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment

ADF Solutions Named A Major Player In IDC MarketScape For Worldwide Digital Forensics Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment

28th September 2026

ADF Solutions has been named a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Digital Forensics Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment, recognizing the company's continued focus on intelligent triage, automation, and AI-driven digital investigations....read more

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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)

Officers get cyber training

The world has benefited in many ways from the information technology boom of the last 50 years, but the advancements have given crooks and predators yet another way to victimize. That means criminal investigations must evolve as well. Nowhere has

Steganalysis plug-in for Inforenz Forager computer forensics software

With its latest version of Forager® 1.3, Inforenz tackles the rising issue of information leakage by releasing a plug-in for its forensic software that identifies where data is concealed in other files. It enables computer forensic investigators to search for

Google Searches Help Convict Suspect

A North Carolina jury has found a man guilty based on evidence which included Google searches for the terms “neck,” “snap,” “break,” and “hold”. The man has been sentenced to life without parole, but plans to appeal the decision… More

Document metadata

Few things in the world of digital documents are as pesky and revealing as “metadata” – the information automatically embedded in documents by popular software such as Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat. When the government or a business forgets to

If a computer holds a clue, this lab will find it

What’s the best way to get into a criminal’s head? One group of area sleuths knows: Get into their computers. That’s what the men and women assigned to the Heart of America Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory do every day in

Technology Pathways Releases Freeware Forensic Software

Technology Pathways, LLC announced today the release of ProDiscover® Basic, a new freeware version of the ProDiscover Family of Computer Forensic Software…ProDiscover Basic provides a complete computer forensic solution including the ability to collect, preserve, analyze, and report on computer

Meet Bergen’s top cyber cop

Paramus detectives investigating a money-laundering scheme had confiscated a computer they suspected held crucial evidence. But its hard drive apparently had been wiped clean. At the time, many North Jersey police departments lacked the technical savvy and financial resources to

Detective combats rising computer crime

Detective Josh Moulin is a criminal forensic expert quite unlike the well-dressed heroes you see stalking bad guys across a fictional Miami every Monday night on CBS. Moulin spends his nights examining computers. He dissects them in a bland windowless

TVN’s Studio content digitally watermarked

In a recent announcement TVN Entertainment outlined that it will be using Widevine’s Mensor technology to watermark its entire VOD content line up. In the emerging digital forensics market, fingerprinting and watermarking provide another layer of security that enables content