13th August 2026

Protecting Those Who Protect Children: Inspection Findings And The Evidence Base For Investigator Well-Being
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A major new HMICFRS report exposes the urgent need for proactive, mandatory mental health support for digital forensic investigators and others working daily with online child sexual abuse material....

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UPCOMING WEBINAR – Reducing ICAC Backlogs: Prioritizing Digital Evidence For Faster Investigations

UPCOMING WEBINAR – Reducing ICAC Backlogs: Prioritizing Digital Evidence For Faster Investigations

13th August 2026

Join Rich Frawley of ADF Solutions as he shares practical strategies for managing complex ICAC scenes, prioritizing the devices most likely to contain probative evidence, and making faster, more informed decisions in the field....read more

Unmasked: Early Intelligence Should Not Be Manual

Unmasked: Early Intelligence Should Not Be Manual

12th August 2026

Turn partial school badges into actionable leads with S21 School Badge Lookup v2.0, fast offline image intelligence built for CSAM and ICAC investigations worldwide....read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 12 2026

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 12 2026

12th August 2026

Read the latest DFIR news - NIST’s new ArtCat digital forensics catalog, Kohberger case methodology, Android intrusion log analysis, offline AI with BelkaGPT, and more....read more

TSK 2.03 and Autopsy 2.06 now available

From the TSK/Autopsy announcement list: TSK 2.03 and Autopsy 2.06 are now available. They are mostly feature upgrades (there is 1 important bug fix in TSK for AMD64 users though!). The biggest new feature is Unicode support (which was kindly

Submissions Being Accepted for Timothy Fidel Award for Excellence

Building on the success of the inaugural Timothy Fidel Memorial Award, Guidance Software along with AccessData, today announced the Timothy Fidel Memorial Award Committee. The Committee was created as the decision making body for the award which is given in

FBI Shows Off Cyber Crime Lab In KC

Several attorneys general from the Midwest got a closer look at how to fight cyber crime Monday. The group visited the FBI’s regional computer forensics lab in Kansas City to learn more about their software… More (KMBC-TV)

Juris e-prudence

The ‘paper trail’ no longer consists of paper. More than 90 percent of all business documents are now created digitally, and computer forensic techniques allow recovery of evidence invisible to most computer users. So if you think your organization is

High-tech detective

Randy Stone put the pieces together to solve BTK case There was only one valid file on the purple computer disk: TestA.rtf. The text file had a single sentence in it, telling investigators to read a 3×5 index card BTK

File System Forensic Analysis

The field of investigative forensics has seen a huge surge in interest lately, with many looking to study it because of shows like CSI or the increasing coverage of computer-related crimes. Some people see a career opportunity there, and are

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