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15th October 2026

The Forensic Focus State Of DFIR Survey Is Now Open
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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Semantics 21 Is Calling Time On Outdated Investigation Tools

Semantics 21 Is Calling Time On Outdated Investigation Tools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

Event Recap: Forensics Europe Expo

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With in-person events making a cautious comeback this year in a pandemic-strained environment, attendance at the Forensic Europe Expo in June was perhaps a bit lower than might otherwise have been expected of a free event.  Still, the vendors who

XRY 10.2.1 Released Today

Today’s XRY 10.2.1 release brings remarkable extraction and decoding capabilities to more mobile devices, with the total number of supported devices exceeding 42,250, including over 4,200 app versions. Plus, improved Warrant Return support for Google, Apple, and Instagram. The new release also

DFIR Digital Transformation

Stephen Boyce: Welcome to the Magnet Virtual Summit 2022. We missed you in Nashville, but we’re glad that you’re here virtually. Today, I’ll be talking about the digital forensic and incident response digital transformation. Many of you in your agencies

Prudent Design Principles for Digital Tampering Experiments

Mark: Okay. Good afternoon. Welcome to the next full paper session. We have three papers for you in this session on forensic methods. So, Janine will start shortly with a paper on evidence tampering, we have a paper on forensic

Grayshift Promotes David Scruggs to Chief Revenue Officer

ATLANTA – AUGUST 10, 2022 – Grayshift, LLC, a leading and trusted provider of mobile digital forensics solutions, today announced the promotion of David Scruggs from Vice President of Sales to Chief Revenue Officer. In his new role, he will

A Survey on the State of Video Forensics In 2022

Amped Software launches a new survey to understand what are the trends with video evidence and what is the state of video forensics in 2022. The survey is open to anyone working on image and video evidence (even occasionally) and

Deep dive into ‘METADATA’

Deep dive into ‘METADATA’ Hancom is glad to release a new whitepaper of ‘Metadata’, and hope this can help you to improve your forensic investigation skills. This whitepaper focuses on the research of Metadata. We will use MD-RED and analyze