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15th October 2026

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Forensic Focus Digest, 16 Oct 2026

Forensic Focus Digest, 16 Oct 2026

16th October 2026

Discover what’s new on Forensic Focus: explore how the City of Johannesburg uses Detego Global to accelerate investigations, see how MD-LIVE takes investigators from first connection to a court-ready report, learn how iVe analyzes vehicle data to reveal driver behavior, and more....read more

Magnet Autokey: Accelerating Your Vehicle Investigations

Magnet Autokey: Accelerating Your Vehicle Investigations

15th October 2026

Jason Miranda and Evan Walker from Magnet Forensics show how Magnet Autokey pulls location history, connected devices and even text messages from encrypted vehicle infotainment systems in under 30 minutes....read more

Semantics 21 Is Calling Time On Outdated Investigation Tools

Semantics 21 Is Calling Time On Outdated Investigation Tools

14th October 2026

Digital evidence has evolved, and investigative tools must keep pace - discover how Semantics 21 helps investigators work faster, search smarter and maintain control without compromising professional judgement....read more

What Science Gives Us and What We Give to Science

In this “Enhanced Reflections” article, Martino Jerian, Amped Software‘s CEO, will talk about the relationship between Amped and science, the scientific method, and scientific research. Amped Software has its roots in academic research, and the first prototype of Amped FIVE actually started

Teaching the Next Generation of Cyber Sleuths

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Hello, I’m Darryl Pfeif and I’m going to talk to you about our research project — ‘Introducing Digital Forensics in Secondary School’. This project was recorded with funding from the national science foundation and wouldn’t have been possible without the

Forensic Analysis of ReFS Journaling

Hello, I am Seonho Lee from the Affiliated Institute of ETRI. Today, I talk about the forensic analysis of ReFS Journaling. Before everything, let me just briefly explain the two key topics of the presentation. I’m going to explain what

Capturing the Low Hanging Fruit: Analysis Phase

Holly: Hi everyone. My name is Holly Hagene, welcome to today’s webcast. We’ll get started in just a minute. First, a few reminders: all the lines have been muted to reduce background noise. We also encourage you to submit questions

APK Downgrade in Oxygen Forensic Detective

Hey everybody. This is Josh Smith with the Oxygen Forensics training team. And today I’m going to show you a new extraction method:  the Android APK Downgrade method. The Android ADB backup is, like I said, a very common method,

Enhanced support for Samsung Galaxy and iOS with XRY 9.6.1 from MSAB

Today’s release of XRY 9.6.1 offers improved support for the extraction and decoding of iOS 15 and Samsung Galaxy mobile device including the SM-A202K, A205G and M107F. Today’s digital forensic examiners are faced with an increasing volume of digital forensic

Wickr Me Extraction in Oxygen Forensic Detective

Wickr Me Messenger allows users to exchange end-to-end encrypted and content-expiring messages, as well as end-to-end encrypted video conference calls. Wickr Me was founded in 2012 by a group of security experts who wanted to implement new standards of data

Without Access, Mobile Forensics Fails to Deliver

By David Miles, co-founder and chief executive officer of Grayshift Criminal activity has always been one of the frontiers of new technologies—and the digital age has seen a relentless expansion of that frontier. Every day, individuals commit crimes in new