5th June 2026

Forensic Focus Digest, June 05 2026
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Discover what’s new on Forensic Focus – explore video timing in Amped FIVE, meet STNDRDS AB founder Andreas Antonsen, see what’s new in ADF Pro v6.3, and more....

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How Freeland Is Using Detego Technology to Dismantle Wildlife Trafficking Networks

How Freeland Is Using Detego Technology to Dismantle Wildlife Trafficking Networks

4th June 2026

Freeland is using Detego’s digital forensics platform to help frontline investigators uncover trafficking networks, strengthen cross-border intelligence sharing, and protect endangered wildlife from organised crime....read more

Video Timing In Amped FIVE

Video Timing In Amped FIVE

4th June 2026

Video timing can make or break forensic interpretation — Amped Software explains how Amped FIVE helps analysts evaluate timing sources, verify reliability, and preserve authenticity in video evidence....read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, June 03 2026

Digital Forensics Round-Up, June 03 2026

3rd June 2026

Read the latest DFIR news – DFIR well-being study results, agentic AI forensic blind spots, the latest ADF tools, deepfake image analysis workflows, and more....read more

Jeff Weise’s e-mail trail led authorities to Jourdain

It’s hard to cover your tracks on your computer. Deleted files aren’t immediately deleted. And software programs on most PCs keep all sorts of data trails, recording the Web sites you visit, the pictures you look at, the e-mails you

Online CP investigation costs UK police £15m

The cost of forensically examining the computers seized during the UK police’s Operation Ore investigation into online CP will total £15m, according to the National Crime Squad (NCS). Operation Ore was launched after the FBI smashed an illegal CP ring

Expert rejects Lundy evidence

A computer forensics expert who has spent up to 400 hours examining evidence in the Mark Lundy murder case says he has ruled out police claims that Lundy manipulated a computer clock to give himself an alibi. The Crown at

Can computers survive cross-examination?

Between my fingers typing these words and the Word application which records them there is a huge range of different programs, not all of which I know intimately. If even a simple document such as this is potentially affected by

UK MP to raise bill to boost computer crime laws

Derek Wyatt, chairman of the All Party Internet Group, is to raise a 10 minute rule bill in the Commons next month calling for the Computer Misuse Act to be strengthened. The move follows a campaign by Computer Weekly, businesses

Super Resolution: Making the invisible visible

Intel is developing a technology that promises to uncover hidden information in digital images and videos and create output files of significantly higher resolution and quality. “Super Resolution” (SR) consumes enormous computing resources, but is on track to reduce the

Judge in Jackson trial: Computer images inadmissible

Computers seized from Michael Jackson’s bedroom and containing stored images of naked women from adult Web sites are not admissible at the singer’s child-molestation trial, Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville ruled Wednesday. Melville said he barred the materials because it

Kroll Ontrack Honors “Thought Leaders” in Electronic Discovery

Kroll Ontrack(R) has honored top legal professionals with its third annual Electronic Evidence Thought Leadership Awards. Award recipients include law firms, litigators, practice support professionals and scholars who have shown excellence and leadership in the field of electronic discovery. More

Crime fighters solve crimes by examining cell phones

Modern detectives are now using cell phone forensics to capture more and more criminals. Forensics, the science of preserving, extracting and examining data, has long been confined to computers. Now, with the help of cell phone seizure kits like the

Speak up to beat cybercriminals

The police have long complained that organisations that are the victims of computer crime are reluctant to come forward for fear an investigation will cripple their business as the police seize servers and PCs as evidence. On the other hand,

FBI’s new computer forensics lab already has full load

Blue lights flashed inside the Menlo Park office suite, a signal to the “propeller heads” – highly trained forensic computer examiners – that fellow FBI agents had arrived with another cyber-mystery for them to solve. This one was buried somewhere

Experts evolve new techniques to solve cyber crime

Electronic crime detection experts are working with police and forensic detectives in a Scottish university to establish new techniques to detect cyber crime, especially CP. “Anybody using a computer leaves a trail, and it’s very hard to cover that trail

FBI Computer Forensics Laboratory in “TOP 50” awards

The FBI’s Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory (RCFL) initiative has been chosen as one of the “Top 50” programs in the 2005 Innovations in American Government Awards competition. The RCFL Program is a national network of one-stop, full-service digital evidence laboratories.

UK police foil massive “online” bank theft

Police in London say they have foiled one of the biggest attempted bank thefts in Britain. The plan was to steal £220m ($423m) from the London offices of the Japanese bank Sumitomo Mitsui. Computer experts are believed to have tried