7th August 2025

The Balance Between Digital Forensic Examiners And Digital Evidence Technicians: Expertise Vs. Efficiency
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Can digital forensic labs cut backlogs without cutting corners? Debbie Garner explores how tiered workflows using both examiners and technicians can strike the right balance....

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Forensic Focus Digest, August 08 2025

Forensic Focus Digest, August 08 2025

8th August 2025

Discover what’s new on Forensic Focus – explore the balance between expertise and efficiency in digital forensics, tackle the challenges of multi-jurisdictional investigations, and learn how transforming organisational culture can improve mental health in the field....read more

More Than Software: Amped Training Teaches You The Science Of Forensic Video And Image Analysis

More Than Software: Amped Training Teaches You The Science Of Forensic Video And Image Analysis

7th August 2025

Push past button-clicking—Amped Software training teaches the science behind forensic video analysis....read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 06 2025

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 06 2025

6th August 2025

Read the latest DFIR news – starting a digital forensic business, Hashcat v7.0.0, GenAI incident response guidance, cross-border investigation challenges, and more....read more

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

How To Use Annotations In Amped Replay

Some of you may be aware of Amped Replay, but for those who are not, Replay can be considered the VLC (and much more!) for investigators. It was designed to make the life of investigators easier by providing them with

How To Perform An Android 10 Full File Extraction With MD-NEXT

New release: MD-NEXT v.1.89.5  Full filesystem extraction is available for Samsung Galaxy S10/Note10 Series (Exynos) with Android 10 (FBE enabled), and this will support the Samsung Secure Folder. Check out the video! If you have any questions, feel free to

Recent Research In Digital Forensics

Despite pandemic-related disruptions in both research and publishing as we head into the summer, there are still some posts and papers being published. In this round-up, we take a look at three recent articles in digital forensics. An Evaluation of

Virtualizing The Digital Forensics Lab

When the spread of COVID-19 spurred businesses and governments to close their doors and require employees to work from home, questions arose for those working in the criminal justice system. Operations couldn’t end, but to what extent would they be

6 Month Checkup at Oxygen Forensics

We’re halfway through the year, and it is time to recap what useful features we have introduced to the forensic community. Undoubtedly a challenging time; however, we released four significant updates with a tremendous amount of enhancements in all our

Get DVRConv 17521 with H.264 Quality Settings and New Formats

Did you know that Amped DVRConv is the easiest way to convert unplayable video files? Videos from proprietary CCTV/DVR systems, dashcams, body worn cameras, and any other video source can now be converted without effort. With Amped DVRConv, you just