Forensic Focus

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7th August 2025

The Balance Between Digital Forensic Examiners And Digital Evidence Technicians: Expertise Vs. Efficiency

Can digital forensic labs cut backlogs without cutting corners? Debbie Garner explores how tiered workflows using both examiners and technicians can strike the right balance....

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Forensic Focus Digest, August 08 2025

8th August 2025

Discover what’s new on Forensic Focus – explore the balance between expertise and efficiency in digital forensics, tackle the challenges of multi-jurisdictional investigations, and learn how transforming organisational culture can improve mental health in the field....read more

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More Than Software: Amped Training Teaches You The Science Of Forensic Video And Image Analysis

7th August 2025

Push past button-clicking—Amped Software training teaches the science behind forensic video analysis....read more

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Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 06 2025

6th August 2025

Read the latest DFIR news – starting a digital forensic business, Hashcat v7.0.0, GenAI incident response guidance, cross-border investigation challenges, and more....read more

DFIR Consultant Kat Hedley on Finding the History — and Future — of DFIR at Bletchley Park

11th April 2022

Christa: The United Kingdom’s Bletchley Park is world renowned for its codebreakers’ role in shortening World War II by between two and four years, all by cracking codes the Germans used to communicate their plans. This week on the Forensic

Python Scripting for File Filtering With FTK

7th April 2022

This week, we’re combining Python and filtering for some forensic shenanigans on this week’s episode of FTK Feature Focus. Welcome to FTK Feature Focus. I’m Justin Tolman, the director of training over North America here at Exterro. And this week

20 Hidden Gems in Amped FIVE

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Amped FIVE is the most trusted software for forensic video analysis and image enhancement for law enforcement, investigations, and intelligence. Here are 20 simple features, hints, and tips that may not be so obvious to you but will work wonders

MSAB Announces the First Major Release for 2022: XRY 10.1, XAMN 7.1 and XEC 7.1

6th April 2022

Full support for Windows 11 across all products and added support for data acquisition from over 41900 device profiles. The new releases of XRY, XAMN and XEC introduce a range of new and improved capabilities designed to help you accelerate

New Free Tool from Magnet Forensics: MAGNET Apple Warrant Return Assistant

6th April 2022

The MAGNET Apple Warrant Return Assistant, a one-click solution to download, decrypt, and decompress Apple warrant returns is available as a free tool. When a cloud service vendor shares a user’s account data based on a warrant return, (e.g., a

Magnet Forensics Awards Scholarships to Help Advance Careers of Digital Investigators

6th April 2022

Magnet Forensics announced it is awarding scholarships to investigators in the U.S., Ireland and Brazil to help them advance their careers in digital investigations. The four recipients of the Magnet Forensics Scholarship Awards will receive training led by highly experienced

eDiscovery Investigations in the Age of Remote Work

5th April 2022

Julia O’Shea: Hi, everyone. Thanks for joining today’s webinar: eDiscovery Investigations in the Age of Remote Work. My name is Julia O’Shea and I’m a Product Marketing Manager here at Cellebrite. Now I’d like to introduce our speakers today: Derrick

Authors Graeme Horsman and Brett Shavers on Defining Digital Forensics Expertise

4th April 2022

Christa: Who is the digital forensic expert and what is their expertise? That’s the question posed in a new paper. Published at WIREs Forensic Fcience, the paper explores the concept of a digital forensic expert witness, while also considering whether

MSAB’s Simon Crawley on the Importance of Frontline Forensics

28th March 2022

Christa: Time is of the essence when field extractions of mobile devices are needed, but so are forensically sound extractions as strong links along the chain of custody. Today the Forensic Focus podcast welcomes Simon Crawley, a senior consultant with

Magnet Forensics Survey Shows Enterprises Expect to Make Major Investments in Digital Forensics

25th March 2022

Ransomware was identified as the most frequent threat and only 13 per cent of respondents were able to avoid paying a ransom after an attack. Magnet Forensics today announced the release of the IDC eBook, 2022 State of Enterprise DFIR.

Forging Trust in Digital Forensics as Technology Evolves

24th March 2022

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February’s publications continued a trending topic in recent research: establishing reliability in forensic science as a whole, and digital forensics particularly. Even as some works explored the decryption of encrypted data, and the use of “hacked” data from encrypted devices,

Leveraging Intel DCI for Memory Forensics

22nd March 2022

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Hello, and welcome to my DFRWS US 2021 talk about leveraging Intel DCI for memory forensics. My name is Tobias Latzo and I’m in the security research group of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany, which is led by Felix

Finding Important Artifacts in Recycle Bin

21st March 2022

Recycle Bin can become an important clue to the case. It might provide the trace of a trial to hide or to conceal a clue. This whitepaper focuses on the research of deleted files from various types of apps in

Malware Family Classification Via Efficient Huffman Features

18th March 2022

Hello everyone. My name is Steven O’Shaughnessy, and I’m a lecturer from the Technological University in Dublin. And on behalf of my colleague, Frank Breitinger from the University of Lausanne and myself, I am presenting our paper entitled malware family

AI-Based Video Recognition in FTK

17th March 2022

Holli: Actually, it looks like everybody’s in here, so we can go ahead and get started. Hi everyone, my name is Holli Hagene. Welcome to today’s webcast. A few reminders: all of the lines have been muted to reduce background

Detego Global’s Field Triage Solution Selected as a Finalist for UK’s ADS Security Innovation Award

17th March 2022

Detego Global, the creators of the acclaimed unified digital investigations platform, has been selected as a finalist for the ADS Security Innovation Award. This prestigious award recognises the innovative capabilities and services developed by UK security companies, and is designed