29th September 2026

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Green Meets Blue: A Brief RCS Forensic Excursion

Green Meets Blue: A Brief RCS Forensic Excursion

29th September 2026

What does RCS mean for digital forensics? MSAB Digital Forensic Specialist Markus Hess breaks down how RCS works, who uses it and where investigators can find the forensic evidence....read more

ADF Solutions Named A Major Player In IDC MarketScape For Worldwide Digital Forensics Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment

ADF Solutions Named A Major Player In IDC MarketScape For Worldwide Digital Forensics Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment

28th September 2026

ADF Solutions has been named a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Digital Forensics Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment, recognizing the company's continued focus on intelligent triage, automation, and AI-driven digital investigations....read more

Go Beyond The Basics With XRY Kiosk From MSAB

Go Beyond The Basics With XRY Kiosk From MSAB

25th September 2026

Go beyond the basics with XRY Kiosk - extract logical, full file system, physical and RAM data through controlled, compliant workflows built for fast frontline forensics....read more

Arcadia PD has own computer forensics specialist

Detective Scott Elenberger started the Arcadia Police Department’s computer forensics program by building a computer out of spare parts from home. Now, after about three years of training and building a high- tech computer lab, he’s retrieving digital evidence that’s

Paper: Steganography for the Computer Forensics Examiner

“An Overview of Steganography for the Computer Forensics Examiner” by Gary C. Kessler Abstract Steganography is the art of covered or hidden writing. The purpose of steganography is covert communication-to hide the existence of a message from a third party.

Ashcroft wins Internet wiretap system

U.S. regulators last month ruled tentatively in favor of an FBI and Justice Department proposal that would compel Internet broadband and VoIP providers to open their networks up to easy surveillance by law enforcement agencies. At issue is the 1994

PivX Solutions Announces Computer Forensics Partnership Agreement

PivX Solutions, Inc. has announced a partner agreement to expand the company’s nationwide computer forensic services by partnering with SuperGeeks, a computer consulting company in Hawaii.Under the agreement, PivX will be the exclusive provider of computer forensic expert witness and

Last Call for DIGEV 2004 Web Conference Registrations

Last chance to register for DIGEV 2004, the 1st International Digital Evidence Web Conference. The one-day event takes place online on the 2nd of September (this Thursday), but even if you can’t make the date all presentations will be archived

Defense loses motion in CP case

Montrose County District Court Judge Dennis Friedrich denied a motion Wednesday from defense attorneys to dismiss 19 misdemeanor child exploitation counts against Park Avenue Dance Works co-operator John Ward. At Wednesday’s hearing, David Penrod, a forensic examiner for Computer Forensic

Dozens of spammers, scammers arrested

U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft today will announce the arrests of dozens of people nationwide charged with flooding e-mail inboxes with spam and perpetrating computer fraud and other cyber crimes. Many of the cases have their origin in Pittsburgh, where

Purdue, Law Enforcement Probe Digital World Of Computer Forensics

Purdue University is teaming with law enforcement officers to improve investigation of the new generation of crimes, including computer-aided terrorism, espionage, bank and business fraud, and identity theft. A collaboration with 20 law enforcement officers from throughout Indiana is part

Justice issues guidelines for handling digital evidence

The Justice Department’s National Institute of Justice has published the second in a series of guidelines for IT crime investigations. “Forensic Examination of Digital Evidence: A Guide for Law Enforcement” was created at the agency’s request by the National Institute

South Carolina Computer Crime Center Gets New Tool

The South Carolina Computer Crime Center, which opened in December 2002, handles the forensic examination of evidence collected during the investigation of computer crimes in South Carolina. Soon after it opened, the facility was faced with a rapidly growing volume

Site upgrade complete!

A very warm welcome to the new, improved Forensic Focus website! In addition to the usual features we’ve greatly improved the forum and are working hard on adding new content. We hope that you’ll take a second to register and

New weaknesses in crypto algorithms?

Encryption circles are buzzing with news that mathematical functions embedded in common security applications have previously unknown weaknesses. More (News.com)

Digital Evidence Web Conference – call for papers

The Forensic Institute, in conjunction with forensic.e-symposium.com, is hosting the 1st International Digital Evidence Web Conference. All submissions will be reviewed by a two-tiered committee consisting of the Advisory Group (3M Group) and a Review Committee (RECO Group). They are

High-tech volunteers fight cybercrime

Craig Schiller, an information security officer at RadiSys, isn’t just a high-tech “geek” at work. Neither is Corbin Nash, a security architect at Intel, or Mark Morrissey, a computer science instructor at Portland State University. These three are part of

FBI opens second computer crime lab

The FBI opened a new lab Tuesday dedicated to detecting computer-related crimes and training federal, state and local police to catch Internet pedophiles, frauds and thieves. It is the second such lab the FBI has opened in the United States,

Computer forensics at Bradford University (UK)

The University of Bradford has introduced a postgraduate course in Forensic Computing, in response to “growing demand for computer scientists” with specialist skills to investigate high tech crimes. The MSc is one of a handful of similar courses available to