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15th October 2026

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Forensic Focus Digest, 16 Oct 2026

Forensic Focus Digest, 16 Oct 2026

16th October 2026

Discover what’s new on Forensic Focus: explore how the City of Johannesburg uses Detego Global to accelerate investigations, see how MD-LIVE takes investigators from first connection to a court-ready report, learn how iVe analyzes vehicle data to reveal driver behavior, and more....read more

Magnet Autokey: Accelerating Your Vehicle Investigations

Magnet Autokey: Accelerating Your Vehicle Investigations

15th October 2026

Jason Miranda and Evan Walker from Magnet Forensics show how Magnet Autokey pulls location history, connected devices and even text messages from encrypted vehicle infotainment systems in under 30 minutes....read more

Semantics 21 Is Calling Time On Outdated Investigation Tools

Semantics 21 Is Calling Time On Outdated Investigation Tools

14th October 2026

Digital evidence has evolved, and investigative tools must keep pace - discover how Semantics 21 helps investigators work faster, search smarter and maintain control without compromising professional judgement....read more

How To Do Context Analysis of Digital Images in Amped Authenticate

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By Marco Fontani, Forensics Director at Amped Software For several years, researchers and people in the field of image and video processing have been saying that “seeing is no longer believing”. Image and video manipulation techniques have become powerful and

Digital Evidence Review and Collaboration: A Roundtable Discussion

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Kim Bradley: Welcome to this panel discussion on digital evidence review and collaboration. I’m Kim Bradley and with me today is Jessica Hyde, John Pizzurro, and Joshua James. Thank you all for being here. Jessica, John, and Joshua: Thanks again.

Welcome to the 14th Forensic Technology Days 2022

With only 3 weeks to go until mh Service GmbH’s annual Forensic Technology Day — which begins on the 28th of September and features the world’s leading forensics practitioners — it will soon be time to pack your toothbrush, dust

User Searches in Oxygen Forensic Detective

Amanda Mahan: Hey, welcome back to another Oxygen Forensic webinar. This is Amanda Mahan from the Oxygen Forensic training team. In this video, we’re going to go over the brand new section: user searches. So starting here on the home

Enhancing Digital Investigations With Cloud-Based Evidence

Matt: Hello everyone. My name is Matt Melton. I am a business development manager on our justice and public safety team at Amazon Web Services, or AWS, also known as the Amazon cloud. We’re gonna talk today about something that

Using Magnet IGNITE to Accelerate Breach Response Cases

8th July 2022 by Magnet Forensics Our customers need these answers as quickly as possible to minimize business interruption and Magnet IGNITE has enabled us to provide them hours—and sometimes days—earlier.”— Michael Nelson, Managing Partner , CYBIR CYBIR is a

BlockQuery: Toward Forensically Sound Cryptocurrency Investigation

Tiffanie: Hi, my name is Tiffanie Edwards, and I’m gonna be presenting the paper “BlockQuery: Toward Forensically Sound Cryptocurrency Investigation”. So this is a little bit of background on the authors of this paper. Tyler Thomas is a primary author.