18th June 2026

AI In Digital Forensics: 10 Best Practices For Investigators
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Cellebrite explores how AI is transforming digital forensics by accelerating analysis and connecting evidence, while human expertise and rigorous verification remain essential....

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Forensic Audio & Video Transcription – Search Hours Of Recordings In Seconds | BelkaGPT

Forensic Audio & Video Transcription – Search Hours Of Recordings In Seconds | BelkaGPT

18th June 2026

See how BelkaGPT turns audio, voice messages and video into searchable text, helping investigators find the exact moment a keyword was spoken....read more

Amped Connect UK: The Free Event Every UK Amped User Should Attend

Amped Connect UK: The Free Event Every UK Amped User Should Attend

18th June 2026

Amped Software’s first free UK event lands in Stafford on 9 September, bringing professionals together for practical insights, expert-led sessions and open discussion on the future of image and video forensics—register now to secure your place....read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, June 17 2026

Digital Forensics Round-Up, June 17 2026

17th June 2026

Read the latest DFIR news – CCTV chain of custody, UEFI bootkit detection, Android intrusion log analysis, new LEAPP reporting, macOS Tahoe artifacts, and more....read more

New Article: Data – The Basics of Computer Forensics

Now online… Data: The Basics of Computer Forensics by Edward Pscheidt A full list of computer forensic papers and articles at Forensic Focus can be found here. New submissions are always welcome.

Backlog mires US crime lab

SBI agent Eric R. Hicks spent last week scouring more than half a million files on one computer hard drive for evidence against a man accused of sending p**n to kids. Because he always works two cases at once, Hicks

Rise in UK public sector PC misuse

Computer fraud and abuse is on the rise in the public sector, a report by the public watchdog, the Audit Commission, has found. The number of computer fraud cases has doubled, up from 8% of cases in 2001 to 16%

Course boosts computer forensics capability in Hong Kong

To enhance officers’ computer forensics capability, the Hong Kong Police organised a two-week “Computer Forensics Certification Course” last month that 18 computer forensics examiners attended. The first part covered file system level analysis which underpins all computer forensics theories. The

PGP use ruled relevant in Minnesota

A Minnesota appeal court has ruled that a trial judge was within his rights to allow police evidence about the presence of an encryption program on a defendant’s computer to be admitted in a child abuse case. The ruling came

LanpherWilson Acquires Computer Forensic Group, Inc.

LanpherWilson Corporation today announced that it has acquired Computer Forensic Group, Inc. of Germantown, MD to form a new company called Turiss, a digital investigations and information protection firm with target markets in the corporate, legal and government arenas… More

Fletcher aides leave plentiful trail of e-mail

Comfortable with high-tech gadgets, Gov. Ernie Fletcher’s aides use state-issued computers and BlackBerries to send e-mail that details their deeds, plans, turf battles, even their moods, sometimes on an hourly basis. Now, that e-mail is a trail of bread crumbs

The Certified Computer Examiner Certification

While computer forensics certifications are not as mainstream as an MCSE or CCNA, there are several forensic certifications that are growing in prominence and that are worthy of investigation if you are considering this type of certification. One of these

Sault College (ON, Canada) to host computer forensics workshop

Sault College (Marie, ON, Canada) will present a computer forensics workshop for IT professionals from June 13 to 17. James Lewis, site director for the Centre for Systems Security and Information Assurance (CSSIA) at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor,

Keyboard cops

Forget leaving fingerprints at the scene of the crime. Today’s police know that the hard evidence they find on your hard drive can put you behind bars. Computer forensic analysts – the detectives of the digital world – are in

CFP: DFRWS — Extended Deadline

From Brian Carrier: The paper submission deadline for DFRWS 2005 has been extended untilFriday June 3, 2005. For those who have already submitted papers, you canstill edit your submission on the server. For those who requested anextension or are behind

An Inside Look at a Disk Recovery Service

In many failure-related cases, the chances of recovering data from a hard disk range from good to very good. If the electronic system is the only thing affected, then the drive can often be reused after the control panel has

Used hard drives betray company secrets

A study of 200 hard drives bought on eBay this year reveals that over 70 per cent contained sensitive personal or business data. German data recovery firm O&O Software was able to recover 3.3 million files, including 40,000 Word documents,

EnCase Device Configuration Overlay Data Acquisition Weakness

Arne Vidström has reported a weakness in EnCase, which can be exploited to hide information on a disk. The weakness is caused due to missing support of Device Configuration Overlays (DCO) and therefore causes the program to not acquire parts