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

Sony Selects Guidance Software for Upcoming Movie

Sony Pictures Television is portraying the digital investigation that put BTK behind bars for life by drawing from Guidance Software’s forensic experts. Guidance CEO John Colbert, who has 14 years of law enforcement experience, served as a strategic technical advisor

Litigation Forum Review: Embracing technology

Computer forensic experts can retrieve hidden or lost data, as well as provide evidence as to whether files have been damaged or tampered with. They can reveal evidence of the conduct of those people who had access to the computer,

Computer sleuthing turning cops into geeks

Computers and their criminal investigation capabilities turned Dori Schulze, an Internal Revenue Service special agent, into a self-proclaimed “geek” by the early 1990s. That initial embrace of computers by her and her employer led to the largest retail tax evasion

Expert witness questions CP jailings

A witness in computer crime trials has called for the release of individuals convicted of CP offences based entirely on material found on their hard drives. Jason Coombes, who has been involved in computer crime trials since 1994, issued a

Web helps criminals trap victims

Malicious hackers and hi-tech criminals are changing tactics in a bid to outwit security firms. Statistics show that tech-savvy criminals are starting to turn away from e-mailed viruses to webpages to snare their victims. Also, say security firms, criminals are

FSU grad students design trap for cyberstalkers

In a tiny corner room of an old building on the Florida State University campus, graduate students have been stalking each other. The computer science researchers were trying to design a police trap – of hardware and software – for

New paper: Real-Time Steganalysis

A new paper entitled "Real-Time Steganalysis", authored by James E. Wingate and Chad W. Davis, is now online and can be viewed here. A list of all papers and articles at Forensic Focus can be found here. Further contributions are

More than 50% of companies suffered from cybercrime

More than half of European companies polled in a survey on global network risk admitted that they have suffered significant financial damage as a result of IT system failure in the last 12 months. The survey, conducted by the Economist

Can Digital Photos Be Trusted?

In this new fast paced digital age, anyone can use inexpensive software to doctor up photos, and their handiwork is becoming increasingly difficult to spot. “Everyone is buying low-cost, high-quality digital cameras, everyone has a Web site, everyone has e-mail,

Boom times for hi-tech fraudsters

In the real world it’s a fair bet that burglars live in the same town or city where they commit their crimes. Not so on the net where hi-tech criminals can be a continent away from their victims and often

More detectives specializing in electronic media

Detectives specializing in computer forensics and other electronic media are no longer the exception to the rule. Gone are the days when only identify theft and white-collar crime prompted the use of high-tech detectives. Now, dollops of technology can be

New paper: Digital forensics of the physical memory

A new paper entitled "Digital forensics of the physical memory", authored by Mariusz Burdach, is now online and can be viewed here. A list of all papers and articles at Forensic Focus can be found here. Further contributions are encouraged

UK.biz urged to swot up on computer forensics

Businesses are failing to capture essential evidence from their computer systems, according to a UK industry group which has published a new set of guidelines designed to help firms gen up on computer forensics. The Directors and Corporate Advisors’ Guide

Virtual Cooperation

When a Colorado woman telephoned the Waukesha County Sheriff’s Department this summer and complained that a Waukesha man ripped her off in an Internet auction sale, she wasn’t sure she was going to find a willing ear. But a Sheriff’s

Guidance Software and Vericept Corporation Announce Partnership

Guidance Software Corporation, the leader in computer forensics and incident response solutions and Vericept Corporation, the leading provider of comprehensive compliance and content control solutions, today announced a strategic partnership to provide customers with a dynamic and adaptive incident management