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5th August 2025

Safeguarding ICAC Investigators: Detego Global’s Commitment To Mental Well-Being

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Semantics 21 Wants Your Help To Rename LASERi-X

5th August 2025

Semantics 21 is renaming their groundbreaking CSAM forensics tool—and your idea could win your team a free year of access....read more

Jobs

Digital Forensics Jobs Round-Up, August 04 2025

4th August 2025

Explore a selection of the latest DFIR employment opportunities in this week’s Forensic Focus jobs round-up....read more

Webinars

Collaborative Forensics: Overcoming Challenges In Multi-Jurisdictional Investigations

31st July 2025

Discover expert strategies for cross-border investigations in Exterro’s on-demand webinar....read more

XRY 9.4.3 From MSAB

28th July 2021

Hold the phone… and the drone, and the GPS device, and the disk! Upon receiving MSAB’s software product XRY v9.4.3 and its compatible viewer, XAMN v6.1, we had full intentions of pulling out and dusting off a few of our

Recognize And Capture The Character Using Timestamp/Channel OCR Feature In MD-VIDEO

26th July 2021

How can Timestamp/Channel OCR feature support video forensic investigators? In the situation of the time information of a file in the filesystem is damaged or there is no time/channel information in the recovered frame, OCR can be very useful. Follow

How To Protect Your Acquired Evidence From Ransomware Attacks

26th July 2021

SHIELD is a kernel-mode component of ACQUIRE and TACTICAL protecting all collected digital evidence by our solutions regardless of the device it resides in. As long as the ransomware SHIELD is green, all folders that are used for saving evidence

Amped Replay Now With Smart Processing, Detailed Reporting And Improved Format Support

26th July 2021

Amped Software has released a new version of Amped Replay, the CCTV converter and video player designed for investigators and front line officers. In this release, there are important updates for each tab of the software, so keep reading to

Back On The Beach: Recapping Techno Security Myrtle Beach 2021

23rd July 2021

After a year so many spent cooped up in their homes, it seems only fitting that the first return to an in-person event should happen at a beloved vacation spot: Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, site of the 22nd edition of

How To Use The Updated Oxygen Forensic SQLite Viewer

21st July 2021

Amanda: Hey everyone, It’s Amanda Mahan with Oxygen Forensics’ training team. Welcome back to Oxygen Forensic Detective’s weekly knowledge nuggets. This one’s going to be on our SQLite database viewer and our query builder that’s built into the tool. Hey

Forensic Focus Legal Update July 2021: Reliability And Credibility Of Digital Evidence

22nd February 202319th July 2021

This quarter’s edition of our legal update starts with a look at improving digital forensics experts’ credibility, as well as the reliability of the evidence they find — all while dealing with rapidly advancing technology. Two recent academic papers, plus

2021 2Q MD-Series Release Note Highlights

16th July 2021

MD-NEXT v1.89.19~v1.90.02 Samsung Full Filesystem Extraction for Android 11 – Supports 20 models of Galaxy S10, Galaxy Note10 Series with Exynos Chipset. Huawei Kirin 970/980/990/9905G Chipset Full Filesystem extraction – Supports 32 models including Honor Note 10, P20, P20 Pro,

Register For Webinar: Selecting The Best Hardware-Based Forensic Imager To Streamline The Evidence Collection Process

15th July 2021

There are many considerations that discerning forensic investigators and forensic evidence analysts take into account in selecting the digital forensic imager suited for their applications. What are the factors that every expert-level user of digital forensic imagers should consider and

Key Benefit Of Binalyze Forensic Features For SIEM Solutions

7th July 2021

Due to the increase of cyber malicious activities and the need for companies to react as fast as possible to these incidents every organization needs proactive solutions for protecting its sensitive data and detecting suspicious activities in real-time. Having a

Research Roundup: New Tools And Techniques And Ensuring Their Quality

7th July 2021

The month of May saw a robust, diverse set of academic papers published. Tools and techniques are as present as ever — focusing that month on Windows 10 and mobile malware — but so are discussions about how to ensure

Atola Insight Forensic Gets New Hardware Unit And Supports 3 Parallel Imaging Sessions

6th July 20216th July 2021

On July 5, Atola Technology announced the release of a new hardware imager for Atola Insight Forensic. The new device supports simultaneous imaging of 3 drives with other concurrent forensic tasks such as hashing and wiping. The hardware unit under

Release The DRONE! : Meet Your 24/7 Available DFIR Expert

6th July 2021

The first innovation of Binalyze was decreasing the evidence collection time to minutes from hours, if not days. The second one was making the overall acquisition process a fully automated workflow. Both of these innovations are delivered by our TACTICAL

Automating And Sharing Digital Forensics Knowledge Through Hansken

2nd July 2021

What if you could automate digital forensics processes, centralize them, and then offer them at scale through the internet? Researchers at the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) set out to answer the first question—then took the path through the second and

Free DRONE Version For Print Nightmare Exploit Scanning & Workaround (CVE-2021-1675)

1st July 2021

Binalyze DRONE is your 24/7 virtual DFIR expert who immediately highlights anomalies, rare, suspicious or dangerous events in your case report so you can get straight to the critical evidence. Print Nightmare Exploit Proof-of-concept exploit code has been published online

Exterro Participates In Gen CybHER Camp At Dakota State University

24th January 20251st July 2021

It was exciting to be in person at the annual GenCybHER Girls in Cybersecurity Camp at Dakota State University, June 20-24, 2021. This year, 66 girls in grades 6 through 9 attended from 5 states (SD, ND, MN, IA, NE). Our hands-on lab,