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5th November 2026

Page One’s Rob Fried And Andrew Milauskas On Using AI In Digital Forensics And E-Discovery
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Rob Fried and Andrew Milauskas join the Forensic Focus Podcast to talk about forensics.expert, Rob’s free AI knowledge portal for digital forensics, and how to use AI responsibly in investigations....

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Forensic Focus Digest, 06 Nov 2026

Forensic Focus Digest, 06 Nov 2026

6th November 2026

Discover what’s new on Forensic Focus: explore how Belkasoft X helped convict a UK property fraudster, learn five AI investigation myths debunked with Cellebrite Genesis, find out how Detego Global's AI is transforming child abuse investigations, and more....read more

Dead Ends And Data Recovery: The Importance Of Remaining Tool Agnostic In Digital Forensics

Dead Ends And Data Recovery: The Importance Of Remaining Tool Agnostic In Digital Forensics

4th November 2026

When standard forensic tools hit a dead end, expertise makes the difference - discover how Page One’s Jeffrey Lehn uncovered critical vehicle data that helped solve a fatal hit-and-run case and why forensic examiners must look beyond automated tools....read more

Forensics Forward 2026 (Online, November 10): A Global Day Of Digital Forensics, Cybersecurity And Law

Forensics Forward 2026 (Online, November 10): A Global Day Of Digital Forensics, Cybersecurity And Law

3rd November 2026

Registration is now open for Forensics Forward: Cybersecurity, Digital Evidence, and Justice, a one-day online symposium on November 10, 2026, featuring seven expert-led sessions exploring the latest challenges and developments in digital forensics, cybersecurity, and justice - register today!...read more

New paper: Computer Forensics – A Business Tool

A new paper, “Computer Forensics – A Business Tool”, by Andy Fox of Audax Digital Forensics is now online and can be read at http://www.forensicfocus.com/computer-forensics-business-tool

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

Web to have ‘terror watch’ team

Five European governments are setting up a hi-tech team to monitor how terrorists and criminals use the net. The group will make recommendations on shutting down websites that break terrorism laws. The plans for the initiative came out of a

Live each day like you’re going to be hacked

Forensics was a word repeated throughout this week’s SecureWorld conference. Experts mentioned the media firestorm that has enveloped ChoicePoint and other companies where hackers were able to steal mountains of consumer data that could eventually be used for identity theft

A Method for Forensic Previews

During any computer forensics operation, the state of the target machine must be left as undisturbed as possible. This underlying principle applies to all forensics activities, ranging from the field preview to the full blown examination in a lab. Nevertheless,

UK Government and industry back IT security professionalism plans

Proposals to create a professional institution that would set minimum standards of professionalism for IT security specialists have won backing from the government and leading businesses. The form the institute will take has yet to be decided. One of the

Video Forensics: Catching the Crooks on Camera

Watching movies and your favorite episode of CSI (Crime Scene Investigation), you would think that recorded video is always crystal clear, easily showing a suspect’s face or his license plate, but this is far from reality. In fact, the recorded

Computer sleuths bring crime to light

When Coreen Kulvich and Meredith Tanner explore hard drives and Zip disks, they’re hunting more than just bytes of data. They’re looking for convictions. Kulvich, 29, and Tanner, 28, make up the Dakota County Sheriff Department’s small but increasingly vital

Australian ISP raided for BitTorrent links

An Australian ISP was raided 10th March under court orders for alleged copyright infringement in the first crackdown on the illicit use of BitTorrent technology. Perth-based ISP People Telecom (formerly known as Swiftel Communications), which is listed on the Australian

Cases confirm computer privacy is illusion

Want to communicate your thoughts privately or anonymously? Step away from the computer. Say it with flowers. Or a whisper. Or at least a pen. If you won’t do it for yourself, do it for your lawyer – the one

Windows Security Log Encyclopedia (Press Release)

IT managers and their staffs now have the Windows Security Log Encyclopedia, a new Windows tool for monitoring, intrusion detection and for carrying out computer forensics. The new tool covers all nine audit categories of Windows Server 2003 and illuminates

Deleted computer files never truly gone

“Whenever you delete a file, you’re really not deleting the file,” said Georges Stokes, system administrator for Air Armament Center plans and programs office. “The data is still technically there.” The information that people attempt to delete from their computers