24th August 2026

10 Best Practices For AI-Assisted Investigations: A Guide For Legal And Compliance Teams
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Cellebrite shares 10 best practices for faster, safer, and more defensible AI-assisted investigations, with a focus on governance, traceability, and human oversight....

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Speed Against The Backlog: What’s Slowing You Down And How To Fix It

Speed Against The Backlog: What’s Slowing You Down And How To Fix It

24th August 2026

When every hour counts, imaging speed matters - explore the practical factors that can slow forensic acquisitions and learn how the right hardware, network setup and automation can help tackle growing backlogs....read more

Forensic Focus Digest, August 21 2026

Forensic Focus Digest, August 21 2026

21st August 2026

Discover what’s new on Forensic Focus – explore UK police well-being funding, BitLocker decryption, protecting investigators working on child safeguarding cases, and more....read more

Impact, Coping And Support – Further Reflections From The DFIR Well-Being Study

Impact, Coping And Support – Further Reflections From The DFIR Well-Being Study

20th August 2026

What does repeated exposure to traumatic digital evidence really do to investigators? Phil Anderson returns to the Forensic Focus Podcast to unpack more findings from the international well-being study....read more

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

New Paper: The Forensic Chain of Evidence Model

A paper by Atif Ahmad entitled “The Forensic Chain of Evidence Model – Improving the Process of Evidence Collection in Incident Handling Procedures” is now available online. The paper can be read here. A full list of papers and articles