19th August 2025

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

Wrapping Up The S21 Transcriber Spotlight Session – What We’ve Covered

20th August 2025

Explore S21 Transcriber: a fully offline, court-ready tool with free 30-day access and training....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

SANS DFIR Summit 2020 Recap

The SANS DFIR Summit, the largest ever SANS Institute event thanks to a record 20,000 registered individuals, took place July 16-17 this year. In a fully virtual format owing to COVID-19 precautions, the Summit, said SANS Institute Fellow Rob Lee

Live Webinar: Insider Threat Detection, Triage, and Investigation

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Many enterprises struggle with identifying, planning, and implementing the core capabilities needed to prevent insider threats within the organization. Executive-level questions and concerns about whether the investments required for enterprise-scale tools are justified by insider threat risk alone make it

Staying Ahead of Mac Investigations with Apple Forensic Training

BlackBag’s Apple® Forensic Investigations (AF1) class focuses on evidence artifacts rather than parsed data. The idea is that attendees learn how to verify data found during analysis. The course prepares examiners to understand what the data is saying; how the

Trust But Verify: Digital Artifact Edition

Julie: Hi, everyone. Thanks for joining today’s webinar Trust But Verify: Digital Artifact Edition. My name is Julie O’Shea, and I’m the global marketing manager here at BlackBag. Before we get started today, there are some things that I’d like

HancomWITH – 2Q 2020 MD-Series Release Note Highlights

Check out the major features of MD-Series released in 2Q 2020, if you would like to know more go download PDF file. MD-NEXT v1.88.1-1.89.4 New iOS Full Filesystem(Checkm8) Extraction applied to iPhone series SE/6s/6s+/7/7+/8/8+/X New Physical Extraction for Samsung Galaxy

Josh Brunty On Digital Forensics Education

Christa: Hello, and welcome to the Forensic Focus podcast. Monthly, we interview experts from the digital forensics and incident response community on a host of topics ranging from technical aspects to career soft skills. I’m your host, Christa Miller.  Today,

How To Create A Full Forensic Image With Nuix Enterprise Collection Center

Nuix Enterprise Collection Center empowers ediscovery, digital forensics, and cybersecurity practitioners alike. Investigators are able to make a full forensic image, automated through the use of a simple collection wizard. After providing a case name, investigators are then able to

Breaking The Insanity Cycle: How Police Forces Can Eliminate Device Backlogs

Following a series of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests, the UK’s “The Times” newspaper published a story reporting that the 12,000 digital device backlog faced by UK Police in 2019 remains unchanged in 2020. For many working within the digital forensics community,

Highlights From The National Cybercrime Conference: Virtual Edition 2020

Virtualized online for the first time in its nearly decade-long history, the National Cybercrime Conference (NCCC)  — an annual event hosted by the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office  — brought together a record 133 speakers to deliver a considerable volume of

Day-To-Day Challenges In Digital Forensics

All occupations face daily challenges. Many of these challenges come from dealing with the public, while some are more problem-solving challenges. In digital forensics, we face challenges on both ends of this spectrum because ultimately our jobs affect lives. Whether

Amped Authenticate 17658 Now Available with New Shadows Filter and More

Amped Software is happy to announce a very important update to Amped Authenticate, a software package that includes a collection of the most powerful, real-world-application authentication filters and techniques based on science. Ideal for digital forensic experts to exploit the

Digital Forensics Standards: Recent News And Research

The global COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t slowed either the pace of technological change or its relevance to both criminal and civil investigations. Both fraud and child exploitation are examples of crimes that have increased since much of the world went on

Atola Introduces RAID Assembly, Autodetection And Imaging In TaskForce

2020.7 release of TaskForce brings a brand new capability to assemble drives and image files into RAID arrays, automatically detect their configuration and image the volumes in a forensically sound manner. “TaskForce is now officially the first hardware RAID imager

BlackLight Version 10.1 Is Now Available

Sharing BlackLight case data has never been easier. BlackLight Version 10.1 has officially been released with powerful new enhancements. New and improved features include: BlackLight Portable Case Cluster map view in ‘Locations’ Added support for TrueCrypt and VeraCrypt volumes Support

Find Evidence Faster With A New JSON Viewer In Magnet AXIOM 4.3

Magnet AXIOM 4.3 and Magnet AXIOM Cyber 4.3 are now available! AXIOM 4.3 introduces an all-new JSON viewer along with new & updated artifacts — including Microsoft Teams, Instagram, Chrome, and Uber. Within AXIOM Cyber 4.3, you can now also