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14th August 2025

Enterprise Turns To AI For Speed And Accuracy In DFIR

Magnet Forensics explores how AI is revolutionizing speed and accuracy in DFIR....

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Breaking Digital Barriers: Galaxy S25 & Z Flip Fully Supported

14th August 2025

Gain full filesystem access to the latest Samsung Galaxy devices with MD-NEXT....read more

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Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 13 2025

13th August 2025

Read the latest DFIR news – evidence of Kohberger’s detailed murder preparations, an alarming rise in child sextortion cases, Brian Carrier’s new mini-course on automation and AI in forensics, and more....read more

Well-Being In Digital Forensics And Policing: Insights From Hannah Bailey

12th August 2025

Hannah Bailey shares her journey from frontline policing to founding Blue Light Wellbeing, explaining why culturally-aware mental health support is crucial for DFIs and frontline workers....read more

Exterro Law Enforcement Grant Program Announces 2021 Recipients

24th January 20258th February 2022

Five Law Enforcement Agencies to Receive Exterro FTK® Software Package and Training PORTLAND, Ore., February 1, 2022 — Exterro Inc., the preferred provider of Legal GRC software specifically designed for in-house legal, privacy, and IT teams at Global 2000 and AmLaw

Mason Toups and Emre Tinaztepe on Efficient Incident Response Through Collaboration

7th February 20227th February 2022

Christa: Efficient, effective digital forensics and incident response involves not just the right tools and processes, but also the ability to share insights and collaborate on work. Here with us on the Forensic Focus Podcast to talk about it this

JTAG-Based Memory Acquisition Framework

4th February 2022

Multicolored cables connect small electronic boxes

Hello everyone. My name is Muhammad Haris Rais. I am a PhD student at SAFE lab – Security And Forensics Engineering lab at Virginia Commonwealth University. The lab is led by Dr. Irfan Ahmed and is mostly focused around industrial

Passware Kit Forensic T2 Add-on: The First Password Recovery Tool for Macs With T2 Chips

4th February 2022

Passware continues to deliver cutting-edge decryption solutions for the forensic community. We are excited to announce the first forensic tool that recovers passwords for Macs with Apple T2 Security Chips! Passware Kit Forensic T2 Add-on runs on Windows or macOS

Behavioral-Based Forensics and Investigation Approach for Analyzing Attacks on Water Plants Using GANs

1st February 2022

Long tanks of treated clear water at a water plant at dusk

Hello. My name is Nataliia Neshenko. I am a PhD candidate in Florida Atlantic University College of Engineering & Computer Science working with Professor Fuhrt and in collaboration with Professor Bou-Harb from the University of Texas in San Antonio. Today,

Is More Efficient, Accessible Memory Forensics Possible?

31st January 2022

Christa: Memory forensics is a mainstay of incident response. Its relevance and necessity only growing with time, as encryption technology has become more integrated, especially in consumer devices. Yet memory forensics is neither intuitive nor simple. Looking to change that

Seance: Forensic Divination

28th January 2022

Hi everybody, my name is Ryan Maggio. I am a recent graduate from the Louisiana State University and today I’m going to be presenting a project called Seance that was worked on by myself, Andrew Case, Aisha Ali-Gombe and Golden

Detego Global’s Trevor Wooding on Investigative Challenges and How Detego’s Products Help Overcome Them

27th January 2022

Forensic Focus talks to Trevor Wooding, Detego’s Digital Forensics Consultant and Technical Director about his experience in lab-based investigations and training, the challenges faced by investigators, and how Detego keeps evolving their products to give customers an edge in the

What Do Incident Response Practitioners Need To Know? A Skillmap for the Years Ahead

26th January 2022

Okay, good afternoon. My name is Radek Hranincký. I’m currently finishing my PhD at Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic. And together with my colleagues from different corners of Europe, we made this paper called “What do incident

Register For Webinar: Grayshift Insights

25th May 202225th January 2022

As some of you may know, Grayshift recently celebrated its five-year anniversary. Since our inception, we have seen incredible growth with Graykey, which is now in use by over 1,000 law enforcement agencies and continues to be adopted globally. We are

Lecturer Jade James on Her DFIR Career Transition From Lab to Academia

24th January 2022

Christa: Among the many decisions a digital forensics professional will make in their career, whether to pursue a graduate degree is among the biggest. Costs in time, and sometimes money, factor in, as well as how a degree could shape your future.

Year In Review: 2021 MD-Series Product Highlights

24th January 2022

Go check how MD-Series got new and improved features in 2021. If you want to read the full version of 2021 Release Note Highlights, visit our blog at the link below. MD-NEXT v1.89.13-v1.90.17 Supports 1,500 new models and updated 261 models. Supports 66 downgrade apps MD-RED

Coffee Forensics: Reconstructing Data in IoT Devices Running Contiki OS

21st January 2022

Hi, my name is Jens-Petter Sandvik and I’m a PhD student at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU for short). In addition to trying to finish a PhD, I’m working for the Norwegian police in the national cyber crime

How Detego Helped Airport-Based Counterterrorism Units Speed Up Investigations With Rapid Data Extraction and Triage Tools

7th October 202220th January 2022

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The Background Detego’s client* is one of the busiest airports in London and handles close to 30 million passengers each year. Used by a large number of the region’s budget airlines, the airport facilitates travel to over 200 destinations in

NICE and Magnet Forensics Partner to Digitally Transform Police Case Building and Investigations

20th January 2022

Integration of companies’ technologies will enable police agencies to automatically merge digital forensic evidence from Magnet REVIEW with other digital evidence in NICE Investigate to streamline case building NICE and Magnet Forensics today announced a partnership to digitally transform police

John Graham, Director of Sales and Business Development, Atola Technology

19th January 2022

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John, you will soon be celebrating your 10-year anniversary of working for Atola Technology. Tell us how the company has changed since you joined. Atola has grown incredibly since I started, from just a few people to now teams in