20th August 2025

Wrapping Up The S21 Transcriber Spotlight Session – What We’ve Covered
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UPCOMING WEBINAR – Retail Under Siege: Fighting Back Against Ransomware With Next-Gen Forensics

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

19th August 2025

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

Digital Forensics Jobs Round-Up, August 18 2025

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

Enterprise Turns To AI For Speed And Accuracy In DFIR

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

Dealing With The Data Deluge In Law Enforcement

Eddie: Hello everyone and thank you for joining us. My name is Eddie Yandle, I’m Director of Marketing at Cellebrite. And we are here today for a discussion about dealing with the visual deluge in law enforcement. Today’s speakers will

Windows 10 Activity Timeline: An Investigator’s Gold Mine

Julie: Hi, everyone. Thanks for joining today’s webinar: Windows 10 Activity Timeline: An Investigator’s Gold Mine. My name is Julie O’Shea and I’m the manager of global marketing here at BlackBag.  Before we start today, there are a few things

MSAB & PenLink: Combining the Powers of Mobile Forensics

It’s all about those apps! Technology has moved our society past traditional phone calls and text messages; gathering data from mobile apps and social media providers has become the new normal. The bad news? Law enforcement must keep up. The

Digital Forensics Standard-Setting: Summer 2020 Round-Up

The summer has been a busy one for standards-setting organizations in the United States and European Union: In the U.S., the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published its final guidelines for cloud forensics, along with a document towards

Qualifying A Digital Forensic Expert In Court (Voir Dire)

Most digital forensic practitioners possess an analytical mind.  One of the reasons we become interested in the field is because we work to whittle down the digital elements of the case to try and present a clearer picture of the

XRY 9.1.2 – Checkm8 Extraction And BFU Acquisition For iOS

Today’s release of XRY 9.1.2 offers improved iOS support for data acquisition from iOS devices. The XRY integrated jailbreak tool, based on the checkm8 exploit, will now enable users to recover partial data even when in BFU mode. The new

Case Study: Digital Evidence Confirms Players In Major Bitcoin Heist

Traditional policework helped track down the thieves targeting cryptocurrency data centers in Iceland, but digital intelligence from one suspect’s mobile devices provided the proof of their involvement. Date: 2018Challenge: To connect six suspects to the theft of more than $2M

Digital Forensic Evidence And Artifacts: Recent News And Research

This month’s academic research reflects two aspects of the changing digital forensics industry: new ways to think not just about digital artifacts, but also about broader investigative processes — including interagency cooperation. This round-up article includes three open-access articles from

How To Bulk Tag Evidence With Nuix Investigate

Today I’m going to show you how to do a bulk tagging operation using Nuix Investigate 8.2.1. Here on the far left side – you can see we’re on our Cases landing page – we’re going to scroll down the

COVID Fraud Is A Crisis Within A Crisis

In times of distress, or hardship, we’re told to “look for the helpers.” As Fred Rogers once explained, in “scary” times we can feel calmed and reassured because there will always be “people who are helping.” These people are the

BYOB To A CTF To Improve Your DFIR Game

Even before COVID-19 drove homebound digital forensics examiners to seek out new modes of training and skill-building, Capture the Flag (CTF) challenges were a popular feature at numerous conferences. Now offered in virtual formats both during and outside of conferences,

Strengthen Your Cases with Webpage Data in Magnet AXIOM 4.4

Magnet AXIOM 4.4 and Magnet AXIOM Cyber 4.4 are now available with built-in artifact support for results captured with the free MAGNET Web Page Saver tool, the ability to choose the evidence summaries included in your exports, and several new

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this month’s round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Forum members discuss smart TV acquisition. How do you determine the age of a person in images seized from a computer? Can you help this user with

How To Review Text Chats With Nuix Investigate

Today we’re going to take a look at how to review chat messages in Nuix Investigate, and the different viewing options. We currently have all the items retrieved through the grid, and we’re going to utilise the search filters on