Forensic Focus

27th August 2026

Walk A Mile In Their Shoes: The Hidden World Of The Digital Forensic Investigator

What happens when disturbing material in a CSAM investigation has to be read, not viewed? Paul Gullon-Scott examines the psychological impact of messages, descriptions and AI prompts on digital forensic investigators....

News

How Semantics 21 Are Using Global Intelligence To Pre-Categorise Up To 70% Of Investigations

26th August 2026

No case should remain an island. S21 VisionX connects investigators to more than 3.7 billion contributed records, helping surface cross-case intelligence, reduce repeat review and bring critical connections forward faster....read more

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Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 26 2026

26th August 2026

Read the latest DFIR news - OpenAI forensic artifacts, Apple Screen Time evidence, RAM-based location analysis, AI-assisted investigations, forensic imaging bottlenecks, and more....read more

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10 Best Practices For AI-Assisted Investigations: A Guide For Legal And Compliance Teams

24th August 2026

Cellebrite shares 10 best practices for faster, safer, and more defensible AI-assisted investigations, with a focus on governance, traceability, and human oversight....read more

Get Ready for the Next Big Reveal From Grayshift

19th July 2022

Grayshift continues to extend its strength in lawful access and extraction capabilities As a leader in cell phone forensics, Grayshift, has been hard at work developing new features for law enforcement partners like you. We strive to provide law enforcement

Frontline Managed Services’ Kyle Campbell on DFIR & E-Discovery Skills & Pathways

18th July 2022

Christa: Electronic discovery, or e-discovery, has always required some digital forensic skills as litigators prepare to present electronic data at trial. However, as technology evolves, likewise, the skills needed to identify, collect and analyze the data that’s most relevant to

MSAB – a Major Player in IDC report on Digital Forensics

15th July 2022

MSAB, a global leader in digital forensic technology for mobile device examination and analysis, announced it has been named as a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Digital Forensics in Public Safety 2022 Vendor Assessment. The report noted that

PEM: Remote Forensic Acquisition of PLC Memory in Industrial Control Systems

14th July 202214th July 2022

Winner of the Best Paper Award at DFRWS-EU 2022, Nauman Zubair proposes a new memory acquisition framework to remotely acquire a programmable logic controller (PLC)’s volatile memory while the PLC is controlling a physical process. Session Chair: Welcome Nauman, happy

When Did It Happen? Dealing With Timestamps in Amped FIVE

13th July 2022

By David Spreadborough – Forensic Video Analyst at Amped Software There are several common components within a CCTV Video file. This article from Amped Software is going to dive into the data that links the image to the time when

Passware Kit Mobile 2022 v3 – GPU-Accelerated Password Recovery for MediaTek-Based LG Smartphones

13th July 2022

What’s new in Passware Kit Mobile 2022 v3: GPU-accelerated password recovery for MediaTek-based LG devices Data extraction from applications on LG: Signal, Wickr, 1Password iOS 15.5 support Support for Apple devices with A9X chip Support for HFS+ (iOS prior to

Defining Atomicity (and Integrity) for Snapshots of Storage in Forensic Computing

12th July 2022

In this video from DFRWS-EU 2022, Jenny Ottmann revisits the discussion on quality criteria for “forensically sound” acquisition of such storage and proposes a new way to capture the intent to acquire an instantaneous snapshot from a single target system;

Introducing 2 Forensic Focus Podcast Co-Hosts: Simon Biles and Alex Desmond

11th July 202211th July 2022

Christa: Welcome to the Forensic Focus podcast. I’m your host, Christa Miller. And this week we’re switching it up a little bit. We’re introducing some new co-hosts: Simon Biles and Alex Desmond. Simon’s an IT and digital forensics expert witness

Extraction and Analysis of Retrievable Memory Artifacts From Windows Telegram Desktop Application

8th July 2022

In this video from DFRWS-EU 2022, Pedro Fernandez-Alvarez describes research focused on the Telegram Desktop client, in particular the client process contents in a Windows system’s RAM. Session Chair: We are now in the topic of memory forensics, and we

The Best Forensic Tool to Extract and Analyze Data of Drone/UAVs

8th July 2022

We are happy to release a demo video of MD-DRONE! Drone and UAVs are commonly used for public service purposes or terror and crimes are often involved with this remotely controlled mobility tool. The need for the investigation of drones

Why a UK Police Force Adopted Frontline Solutions From MSAB

7th July 2022

A woman wearing a dark shirt works on a computer at a desk, processing mobile devices

Operator: Calling all units. A2 11, 675 Main. Backup needed. Speaker 1: So we had two police forces combining their digital forensics to save money and increase efficiency. However, we soon realized we had a situation that we weren’t prepared

Bridging the Gap: Standardizing Representation of Inferences in Diverse Digital Forensic Contexts

6th July 2022

Session Chair: So the next speaker is Timothy. It’s going to be online, so Timothy, are you ready? Timothy: Hi, everyone. So I’m Timothy Bollé, I’m a PhD student at the University of Lausanne. And today I will give a

Digital Intelligence Joins Forces with Detego for a Global Webinar Series

6th July 2022

Detego Global, creators of the award-winning Unified Investigations Platform that enables investigators to rapidly extract, analyze and report on critical data from 1,000s of devices and Digital Intelligence® Inc, a leader in the delivery of digital forensics and eDiscovery technologies,

MSAB Announces Its Second Major Release for 2022: XRY 10.2, XAMN 7.2 and XEC 7.2

6th July 2022

The new releases of XRY, XAMN and XEC come with full support for more devices, more apps, Coinbase Warrant Returns, plus an early access to new features. Release Highlights XRY 10.2 XRY 10.2 brings significant extraction and decoding capabilities to

Cellebrite’s Monica Harris on Achieving Balance in Corporate Investigations and E-Discovery

5th July 2022

Christa: Digital forensics in enterprises increasingly overlaps corporate investigations, e-discovery and incident response, with the result that enterprises themselves must balance data acquisition and retention with employee privacy and cyber security. This week on the Forensic Focus podcast we’re joined

What Can You Tell Us About Your Password? A Contextual Approach

30th June 2022

Aikaterini: I’m Aikaterini Kanta. I’m a PhD candidate with University College Dublin, and I’m really glad to be here today. I’m going to talk to you about my PhD research. So, about contextual based decryption. So, the average number of