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

Accuracy of Geolocation Metadata on Pictures Taken Using a Mobile Phone

25th February 2022

Hi, everyone. Thank you DFRWS for having me, and thank you for your interest in this short presentation. These are observations from a little side quest that I had to do within my PhD. Here, let me take away the

Meet the New FTK Family for Modern Forensics

24th February 2022

Holli: Hi everyone. My name is Holli Hagene, welcome to today’s webcast. We’ll get started in just a minute, first I wanted to let you know a few things. All of the lines have been muted to reduce background noise,

Featured Job: Digital Forensic Specialist (London, UK)

24th February 2022

Employer Metropolitan Police Service Location Lambeth, London, UK Salary £43,292 to £47,380 plus a Location allowance of £1,639. You will receive £43,292 the band minimum. Progress to the band maximum of £47,380 will be via incremental progression. Job Description Met

Featured Job: Digital Forensic Technician (London, UK)

24th February 2022

Employer Metropolitan Police Service Location Across London, UK Salary £35,844 to £40,731 plus a Location allowance of £1,639. You will receive £35,844 the band minimum. Progress to the band maximum of £40,731 will be via incremental progression. Job Description This

Featured Job: Digital Forensic Specialist Trainer (London, UK)

24th February 2022

How to Estimate the Speed of a Vehicle with Amped FIVE

23rd February 2022

After intensive development, Amped Software is pleased to start 2022 with the release of a powerful new filter for Amped FIVE: Speed Estimation 2d. Below you can find a step-by-step guide on how to estimate the speed of a vehicle

Using Micro-Services and Artificial Intelligence to Analyze Images in Criminal Evidences

22nd February 2022

Hi everyone. My name is Gabriel Souza, and now I will present a paper to the Digital Forensic Workshop USA, and the article is entitled “Using Micro-Services and Artificial Intelligence to Analyze Images in Criminal Evidences.” So, this work has

Binalyze Secures $10.4 Million in Seed Funding to Develop Its Real-Time Enterprise Forensics Platform

22nd February 2022

Binalyze enables enterprises to respond to cyber breaches in real time, which dramatically speeds up investigations and remediation; this funding will expand the platform’s capabilities Estonia, 25 January 2022 – Binalyze, the Enterprise Forensics platform which enables enterprises to respond

Ali Hadi and Jessica Hyde on Accessible, Affordable Digital Forensics Training

21st February 2022

Christa: As cyber crimes and incidents rise, so does the need for well prepared, professional, digital forensics and incident response practitioners. However, while there’s no shortage of digital forensics training and education, whether it’s accessible enough and addresses enough of

Passware Kit Mobile Now Supports iOS 15.3 and Exports Data as DAR Archives

21st February 2022

Passware has released Passware Kit Mobile 2022.2.1 with support for iOS 15.3 and an option to save acquired file systems as DAR archives. This allows computer forensics to seamlessly analyze the mobile data decrypted and extracted by the Passware Kit

Forensic Analysis Of Xiaomi IoT Ecosystem

18th February 2022

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Good evening. My name is Evangelos Dragonas and today we’ll talk about the Forensic Analysis of Xiaomi IoT Ecosystem. Before I begin, let me introduce myself. I live in Greece where I work as a digital forensics examiner. Currently I

Oxygen Forensic Detective 14.3 Supports Kirin 985 Chipset and WhatsApp QR Multi-Device Cloud Service

18th February 2022

We are delighted to introduce the latest update of our flagship software, Oxygen Forensic® Detective v.14.3! This version introduces support for a new Kirin 985 chipset, full file system extraction of iOS 15 devices, import of Google Takeout data, support

Remote Mobile Collection for Corporate Investigations

17th February 2022

Julie: Hi everyone! Thanks for joining today’s webinar: remote mobile collections for corporate investigations. My name is Julie O’Shea, and I’m a product marketing manager here at Cellebrite. Now, I’d like to introduce our speaker today: Ashley Hernandez. Ashley is

How Detego helped Nebraska State Patrol’s Special Operations Division Minimise Backlogs and Speed Up Investigations

7th October 202216th February 2022

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The Background Protecting residents since 1937, Nebraska State Patrol (NSP) is a police agency covering 77,000 square miles with 400 sworn officers serving a population of more than 1.9 million. NSP’s Special Operations Division, The Nebraska State Patrol Technical Crimes

Amped Software launches the Amped FIVE Training Modules

16th February 2022

Amped Software has recently launched the Amped FIVE Training Modules. But what are these exactly? Read on to find out more. The Amped FIVE Training Modules The Amped FIVE Training Modules are training classes designed specifically for Amped Software end-users to acquire more

Registration is Now Open for Magnet Summit 2022!

15th February 2022

Magnet Forensics is excited to announce that Magnet Summit 2022 registration is now open! Save your spot for the leading DFIR event of the year which will feature an in-person experience in Nashville as well as an additional FREE virtual