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18th August 2025

Digital Forensics Jobs Round-Up, August 18 2025

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

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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

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Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 13 2025

13th August 2025

Read the latest DFIR news – evidence of Kohberger’s detailed murder preparations, an alarming rise in child sextortion cases, Brian Carrier’s new mini-course on automation and AI in forensics, and more....read more

How To Use Nuix Promote To Discover

14th December 2020

Welcome everyone. My name is Jenna Czaplicki, and today I’m going to walk you through a feature called ‘Promote to Discover.’ Promote to Discover is a feature available in both Nuix Workstation and Nuix Investigate, but today we will focus

Forensic Focus Legal Update December 2020: Refining Search & Seizure; New Laws & Guidance

22nd February 202311th December 2020

The fourth quarter of 2020 has seen some significant legal developments when it comes to digital evidence. In this issue (which also happens to be the anniversary of the inaugural Forensic Focus Legal Update), we highlight: Search warrant reform in

How To Use The Categories Filter In XAMN

10th December 2020

Welcome to this quick how-to guide explaining how to work with the Categories filter within XAMN. Categories filter is a powerful tool that is built into the heart of XAMN to help you quickly identify artifacts of a specific type

Community In Collaboration: The Scientific Working Group On Digital Evidence

9th December 20209th December 2020

In September, Forensic Focus was invited to sit in on a meeting of the Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence (SWGDE). The third and final meeting of 2020 was held virtually — just as the previous meeting, in June, had

Apple iOS File System Extraction Via Checkm8 In Oxygen Forensic Detective

9th December 2020

Presented in September 2019, checkm8 is a SecureROM exploit that uses a vulnerability in an iOS device to grant administrative access to the device. Please note, this vulnerability is permanent and cannot be patched by software updates. Checkm8 allows investigators

Webinar: More Than A Makeover: MacQuisition Is Now Digital Collector

8th December 2020

Cellebrite’s Digital Collector 3.1 is the new face of MacQuisition with an expanded reach. With this new release, users can now acquire data from Windows computers as well as Mac computers. In this webinar, Vice President of Engineering, Drew Fahey,

A Linux Forensics Starter Case Study

8th December 2020

Linux is the dominant operating system used for the millions of web servers on which the Internet is built. ZDNet reports, in fact, that 96.3% of web servers run Linux. Because of this, a large number of incidents involving web

How To Use Nuix Enterprise Collection Center For Targeted File Collections

7th December 2020

I’m now going to walk you through the steps to perform a targeted file collection. Performing targeted file collections is a critical function of ediscovery and investigative matters. In step one, we establish the collection: case information, as well as

How To Build A Contact Tracing App On Nuix Software

4th December 2020

In this brief contact tracing demo, we’re first going to create a new case in Nuix Workstation. We’ll add evidence to the case in the form of real-time data from a Kafka topic, as you can see here. Switching over

After SQLite, What Next? A Must-Read Primer On LevelDB

3rd December 2020

Over recent weeks, Alex Caithness, Principal Analyst at CCL Solutions, has been exploring the LevelDB database format. As ubiquitous as SQLite has become owing to the popularity of iOS and Android, he argues, “The trio of HTML5, CSS and JavaScript

Register For Webinar: How To Recreate A Suspect’s Computer Environment With Virtual Forensic Computing (VFC)

3rd December 2020

VFC removes the guesswork from virtualization and allows investigators to concentrate on the investigation. Join MD5’s Tom Cross as he shows you how to make a virtual copy of the computer environment of the original user. This puts you “in

Cellebrite Announces Industry’s First All-In-One Solution For Data Triage And Collection From Windows

3rd December 2020

Digital Collector quickly surfaces Digital Intelligence to accelerate investigation outcomes Cellebrite, the global leader in Digital Intelligence (DI) solutions for the public and private sectors, today announced the Q1 2021 launch of Digital Collector, a powerful and complete triage and

Podcast: Doug Brush On Careers In Digital Forensics

12th February 20212nd December 2020

Christa: To paraphrase a popular career title: What color is your digital forensics parachute? What path are you on currently? Is it the one you want to be on? And how do you know, when the field might look very

How To Use UFED Physical Analyzer 7.33

1st December 2020

We set out on a journey to devise a more intuitive design with improved navigation, visuals, and tools to optimize UFED Physical Analyzer to help you save valuable time and get the job done accurately. Now you can find evidence

Auto-Categoriser (AC): A Global Breakthrough in Automating CSAM Categorisation

1st December 2020

Semantics 21 (S21) are pleased to announce the public launch of S21 Auto-Categoriser (AC), the newest and most advanced AI engine for categorising child sexual abuse (CSAM) material. S21 Auto-Categoriser is now available as a complimentary upgrade to both new

Register For Free Webinar: Getting Started With Video Evidence

30th November 2020

Due to the great success and demand for this webinar, Amped Software has scheduled another date! Why are investigators and CCTV analysts so interested in this content? They have learned that dealing with video in investigations is still littered with