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

Put Your Lab’s Existing Tools And Processes To Work — For Science

Digital forensic tools rely on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)’s National Software Reference Library (NSRL), the standard reference dataset, to filter out known software and images from unknown ones. Forensic examiners, judges, and attorneys rely on NIST’s

Get Amped FIVE Update 17338 With Three New Filters And Much More

Amped Software is happy to announce a very exciting update to Amped FIVE, the most complete image processing software specifically designed for forensic lab experts to manage the complete image and video analysis workflow, with advanced and fully customizable processes

MSAB New Release: XRY 9.1, XAMN 5.1 And XEC Export 6.0.1

Significantly increase the amount of location data, extract more refined data from more devices more securely and in less time, view content from warrant returns and more. Today’s release of new versions of XRY, XAMN and XEC Export represents a

Passware: Tips for Efficient TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt Decryption

VeraCrypt and the former TrueCrypt are two of the most challenging types of encryption to bypass with regard to their popularity as full disk encryption software. Unlike Bitlocker encryption, TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt may encrypt their containers and volumes with multiple encryption keys

Mitigating Risk Through Standardization

A recap of Dr Gillian Tully’s DFRWS EU keynote. By Christa Miller, Forensic Focus No one denies that digital forensics is becoming more complex. The range of devices to examine keeps increasing, as does the complexity of acquiring and analyzing

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this month’s round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Forum members discuss search and seizures during covid. Can you help Jayt4049 with this WD HDD which is going to sleep while imaging? Forum members discuss mounting

DFRWS Virtual Europe 2020 — Recap

by Christa Miller, Forensic Focus This year’s Digital Forensics Research Workshop (DFRWS) EU, originally intended to take place in Oxford, England in March 2020, instead moved online in June. The conference included: Fourteen paper presentations focused on memory forensics, digital

Telegram Messenger Data Extraction In Oxygen Forensic Detective

Telegram is a cloud-based instant messaging and voice over IP service launched in 2013 by the brothers Nikolai and Pavel Durov. According to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the number of monthly Telegram users as of October 2019 is

Navigating Digital Investigations In 2020 Using BlackLight And MacQuisition

Arvinder: Hi, everyone. Thanks for joining today’s webinar, Navigating Digital Investigations In 2020 Using BlackLight And MacQuisition. My name is Arvinder Garcha. I’m the Director of Channels at BlackBag for Asia Pacific and Latin America. So before we kick things

MSAB XAMN

You’ve already extracted data from a mobile device, you’re up against the clock and you’re trying to analyze large amounts of mobile device and app data. Where do you start?  Join us for a 30-minute free webinar and learn smart

Raven: An Android Mobile Exploitation Kit In A Portable Package

Rapid triage extraction in the field for immediate actionable intelligence. MSAB is excited to announce the introduction of Raven, the new, innovative, highly portable mobile device exploitation toolset. It is specifically designed for operators in the field who need lightweight solutions

How To Extract Data From Samsung Galaxy S9 / Android 10 With MD-NEXT

In this video, we will introduce ‘Bootloader Pro’ extraction method which is capable of extracting Android 10 installed Samsung devices. Currently, MD-NEXT supports Galaxy S9(SM-G960N, SM-G960F)/Galaxy S9+(SM-G965N, SM-G965F)/Galaxy Note 9(SM-N960N) with Exynos chipset. If you have any further inquiries, contact