27th August 2026

Walk A Mile In Their Shoes: The Hidden World Of The Digital Forensic Investigator
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What happens when disturbing material in a CSAM investigation has to be read, not viewed? Paul Gullon-Scott examines the psychological impact of messages, descriptions and AI prompts on digital forensic investigators....

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How Semantics 21 Are Using Global Intelligence To Pre-Categorise Up To 70% Of Investigations

How Semantics 21 Are Using Global Intelligence To Pre-Categorise Up To 70% Of Investigations

26th August 2026

No case should remain an island. S21 VisionX connects investigators to more than 3.7 billion contributed records, helping surface cross-case intelligence, reduce repeat review and bring critical connections forward faster....read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 26 2026

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 26 2026

26th August 2026

Read the latest DFIR news - OpenAI forensic artifacts, Apple Screen Time evidence, RAM-based location analysis, AI-assisted investigations, forensic imaging bottlenecks, and more....read more

10 Best Practices For AI-Assisted Investigations: A Guide For Legal And Compliance Teams

10 Best Practices For AI-Assisted Investigations: A Guide For Legal And Compliance Teams

24th August 2026

Cellebrite shares 10 best practices for faster, safer, and more defensible AI-assisted investigations, with a focus on governance, traceability, and human oversight....read more

Vigilance In Action: Monitoring Typosquatting Domains

In today’s digital landscape, cybercriminals are constantly devising new and innovative ways to infiltrate and compromise corporate systems. One such tactic is called typosquatting: the registration of domains that closely resemble a real organization in order to trick users into

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 21 2024

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Digital Detectives vs. Android 14: overcoming new forensic challenges The release of Android 14 requires digital forensics analysts to update their extraction and analysis methods. Analysts must develop new techniques

Decrypt Data In Air-Gapped Environment With Passware Kit Ultimate

We are excited to announce the release of the special edition of Passware Kit Ultimate for air-gapped workspaces! This edition empowers investigators to access data from locked mobile devices, computers, encrypted disks, and files – all with a single license,

GMDSOFT: MD-VIDEO AI Unveils New Features And Expands Global Reach

MD-VIDEO AI, an AI-based video forensic software, is proud to announce a suite of innovative features and significant expansions to its global capabilities. These updates underscore our commitment to providing cutting-edge solutions for law enforcement and forensic professionals worldwide.  New

Is There A Mental Health Crisis In Digital Forensics?

Content warning – this post discusses suicidal feelings. Si: Welcome everybody to the Forensic Focus Podcast. Today we have back with us, much to our huge pleasure, Professor Sarah Morris from the University of Southampton. Forensics guru, communicator with washing

Take the Forensic Focus 2024 Survey Now!

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Our VERY SHORT survey is your chance to tell us what you want to see at Forensic Focus and to share your thoughts on one or two other digital forensics issues. Click the link below to have your say: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7PVBWTT The

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 14 2024

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: iOS 17- The “Forever” Setting That Isn’t… Or Is It? Digital forensics expert Heather Barnhart reveals a significant change in iOS 17’s message retention tracking mechanism. The update shifts from

Meet The New FTK 8.1 From Exterro

For further information and to sign up for a free trial, visit: https://go.exterro.com/FTKfreetrialsignup. Lynne: Hello, everybody, hopefully you can hear us. We are just going to wait, I don’t know, 60 seconds to let some people file in. We have

Forensic Focus Digest, August 09 2024

Read our digest of the latest content on the Forensic Focus website, including news, interviews, webinars, articles, press releases, and more.

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 07 2024

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Sleepless in Cupertino: A Forensic Dive into Apple Watch Sleep Tracking Digital forensic experts have unveiled the potential of Apple Watch’s Sleep app as a crucial tool in criminal investigations.

Chad Gish, Forensic Expert, Magnet Forensics

Chad Gish has just closed the books on an incredibly impactful career with the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD)—building a truly world-class lab and helping to reduce some of the crime affecting the Nashville area. In his time with the

Effortless Management Of A Password Recovery Cluster

Handling encrypted items in a forensic case, especially with Full Disk Encryption (FDE) images and archives, requires significant computational resources. This task is impossible without relying on network-distributed, hardware-accelerated decryption. This in turn demands a convenient tool to distribute password