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19th August 2025

UPCOMING WEBINAR – Retail Under Siege: Fighting Back Against Ransomware With Next-Gen Forensics

Retailers face rising cyber threats—join Exterro's Sept 4 webinar to learn fast, modern forensic response strategies and protect your brand....

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Digital Forensics Jobs Round-Up, August 18 2025

18th August 2025

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

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Enterprise Turns To AI For Speed And Accuracy In DFIR

14th August 2025

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

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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

Podcast: MSAB’s Mike Dickinson On The Rapidly Changing World Of Digital Forensics

4th October 202111th January 2021

Christa Miller: A decade-long career in an industry that changes as rapidly as digital forensics does is no small accomplishment. This month on the Forensic Focus podcast, we have a special vendor edition featuring one of our long-time sponsors, MSAB.

Register For Webinar: Take Control Of Microsoft O365 Data With Nuix

7th January 2021

More than a million organizations worldwide use Microsoft Office,* generating voluminous O365 data across the enterprise. Join Nuix Senior Principal Enterprise Architect Alex Chatzistamatis as he shows you how to use the new Nuix Microsoft O365 connectors to move evidence

Huawei Extraction With Oxygen Forensic Detective

16th October 20216th January 2021

Keith: Hey, this is Keith Lockhart, Director of Training at Oxygen Forensics. In this webinar, we’re going to have a look at Huawei devices, and specifically those that have a Kirin family chipset. So it’s very timely that the company

Adam Belsher, CEO, Magnet Forensics

5th January 2021

Adam, it’s been a while since we sat down with you! Since our last conversation, this time three years ago, how has the digital forensics landscape changed — and what (if anything) has remained the same? It’s nice to have

What’s New In Open Source Digital Forensics: OSDFCon 2020 Recap

4th January 2021

The Open Source Digital Forensics Conference (OSDFCon) kicked off its second decade virtually and, thanks to sponsorships, free of charge. Usually hosted each October in Washington, D.C., OSDFCon this year drew 12,000 people from around the globe: a massive increase

A Letter From The CEO Of Exterro: The FTK Roadmap And Our Exciting Path Forward

31st December 2020

It has been a little over three weeks since we announced Exterro had acquired AccessData. In that time, our teams have been extremely busy with product planning and laying out an exciting path forward! It is our intention to share

Oxygen Forensics – 2020 In Review: Highlights Of Our Year

23rd December 2020

This has been a challenging year for all of us, and as it comes to a close, we wanted to take this opportunity to thank our customers and the forensic community for their continued support and trust in us during

Oxygen Forensic Detective 13.2 Introduces Import Of Samsung Smart Switch Backups

21st December 2020

Oxygen Forensic Detective 13.2 is here! Introducing import of Samsung Smart Switch backups, extraction from Evernote and VIPole clouds, improved Facial and Image Recognition, extended checkm8 support, and much more. Import of Samsung Smart Switch backups Samsung Smart Switch is

The New NVIDIA RTX 3080 Has Double The Number Of CUDA Cores, But Is There A 2x Performance Gain?

21st December 2020

The NVIDIA GPU release cycle is about two years: the RTX 2080 Ti was announced back in August 2018, with 4,352 CUDA cores, 1.2 times more cores than the previous generation GTX 1080 Ti, and it has exactly twice the

DVRConv Now With New Video Formats, Codec Variations And Increased Date/Time Decoding

18th December 2020

Amped Software is happy to announce that Amped DVRConv Update 18959 is now available! With the simplicity of drag and drop conversion, it is no surprise that Amped DVRConv is used by so many forensic labs to conduct quick and

Leveraging Cloud Computing Provision To Solve Problems In Digital Forensics

18th December 2020

My years as a customer – working with MSAB to develop an effective ecosystem, and latterly as a senior consultant within MSAB, helping customers develop their own ecosystem solutions, has led me to explore facets of cloud computing. Up until

New In AXIOM And AXIOM Cyber 4.8: Off-Network Collection, Run AXIOM Cyber In AWS, OCR And More

17th December 2020

Magnet Forensics is proud to share that Magnet AXIOM 4.8 and Magnet AXIOM Cyber 4.8 are now available! With AXIOM and AXIOM Cyber 4.8, we’re helping you capture and search embedded text with OCR, add more Facebook evidence to your

The New Passware Kit 2021 v1: Bootable Memory Imager And Instant APFS Decryption

17th December 2020

Memory analysis is an essential method of electronic evidence discovery. It allows computer forensics to decrypt hard disks and files and extract encryption keys and passwords. We are proud to introduce Passware Bootable Memory Imager – a new UEFI compatible

MSAB: Top 10 Updates Of 2020

18th December 202017th December 2020

The top 10 most valuable updates of 2020, from MSAB: 32,931 supported profilesIncluding iOS 14, Samsung A & J series, Huawei Mediatech devices and LG Qualcomm devicesCheckm8 exploit is now integrated in XRYNew connected device screen capture capability in XRY

What the Tech? FTK Features That Might Surprise You

16th October 202116th December 2020

Holli Hagene: Hi, everyone. Thank you for joining us today for our webinar, FTK features that might surprise you. My name is Holli Hagene and I’m a marketing manager at AccessData. Before I hand things over to our presenters. I

MSAB New Release: XRY 9.3, XAMN 5.3 And XEC 6.2

15th December 2020

Added support to bypass locked Samsung Galaxy Exynos devices in XRY, new conversation view in XAMN, plus major improvements in network support in XEC. We are happy to announce that the new versions of XRY, XAMN and XEC represent a