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Belkasoft previews offline translation in Belkasoft X. BelkaGPT will translate chats, SMS, and artifact text in more than 100 languages, entirely on the examiner machine. #digitalforensics
Belkasoft X 2.12 Introduces Offline Translation For DFIR Investigations
Belkasoft previews offline translation in Belkasoft X. BelkaGPT will translate chats, SMS, and artifact text in more than 100 languages, entirely on the examiner machine.
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What happens when disturbing material in a CSAM investigation has to be read, not viewed? Paul Gullon-Scott examines the psychological impact of messages, descriptions and AI prompts on digital forensic investigators. #digitalforensics
Walk A Mile In Their Shoes: The Hidden World Of The Digital Forensic Investigator
What happens when disturbing material in a CSAM investigation has to be read, not viewed? Paul Gullon-Scott examines the psychological impact of messages, descriptions and AI prompts on digital forensic investigators.
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No case should remain an island. S21 VisionX connects investigators to more than 3.7 billion contributed records, helping surface cross-case intelligence, reduce repeat review and bring critical connections forward faster. #digitalforensics
How Semantics 21 Are Using Global Intelligence To Pre-Categorise Up To 70% Of Investigations
No case should remain an island. S21 VisionX connects investigators to more than 3.7 billion contributed records, helping surface cross-case intelligence, reduce repeat review and bring critical connections forward faster.
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Read the latest DFIR news – OpenAI forensic artifacts, Apple Screen Time evidence, RAM-based location analysis, AI-assisted investigations, forensic imaging bottlenecks, and more. #digitalforensics
Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 26 2026
Read the latest DFIR news – OpenAI forensic artifacts, Apple Screen Time evidence, RAM-based location analysis, AI-assisted investigations, forensic imaging bottlenecks, and more.
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Read the latest DFIR news - OpenAI forensic artifacts, Apple Screen Time evidence, RAM-based location analysis, AI-assisted investigations, forensic imaging bottlenecks, and more. www.forensicfocus.com/news/... #DigitalForensics #DFIR
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Cellebrite shares 10 best practices for faster, safer, and more defensible AI-assisted investigations, with a focus on governance, traceability, and human oversight. #digitalforensics
10 Best Practices For AI-Assisted Investigations: A Guide For Legal And Compliance Teams
Cellebrite shares 10 best practices for faster, safer, and more defensible AI-assisted investigations, with a focus on governance, traceability, and human oversight.
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When every hour counts, imaging speed matters – explore the practical factors that can slow forensic acquisitions and learn how the right hardware, network setup and automation can help tackle growing backlogs. #digitalforensics
Speed Against The Backlog: What’s Slowing You Down And How To Fix It
When every hour counts, imaging speed matters – explore the practical factors that can slow forensic acquisitions and learn how the right hardware, network setup and automation can help tackle growing backlogs.
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Discover what’s new on Forensic Focus – explore UK police well-being funding, BitLocker decryption, protecting investigators working on child safeguarding cases, and more. #digitalforensics
Forensic Focus Digest, August 21 2026
Discover what’s new on Forensic Focus – explore UK police well-being funding, BitLocker decryption, protecting investigators working on child safeguarding cases, and more.
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When every file is treated as equally urgent, critical intelligence can get lost in the backlog. See how S21 VisionX helps investigators prioritise what matters most. #digitalforensics
Unmasked: Throughput Is Not Prioritisation
When every file is treated as equally urgent, critical intelligence can get lost in the backlog. See how S21 VisionX helps investigators prioritise what matters most.
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Cellebrite Genesis is expanding globally and is now generally available to enterprises, helping teams surface critical connections in minutes rather than weeks. #digitalforensics
Cellebrite Genesis For Enterprise Now Generally Available, Regional Availability Expands To More Global Markets
Cellebrite Genesis is expanding globally and is now generally available to enterprises, helping teams surface critical connections in minutes rather than weeks.
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What does repeated exposure to traumatic digital evidence really do to investigators? Phil Anderson returns to the Forensic Focus Podcast to unpack more findings from the international well-being study. #digitalforensics
Impact, Coping And Support – Further Reflections From The DFIR Well-Being Study
What does repeated exposure to traumatic digital evidence really do to investigators? Phil Anderson returns to the Forensic Focus Podcast to unpack more findings from the international well-being study.
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Read the latest DFIR news – UK police investigator well-being, cloud search warrant strategy, Timestamped for macOS, iLEAPP and ALEAPP updates, and more. #digitalforensics
Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 19 2026
Read the latest DFIR news – UK police investigator well-being, cloud search warrant strategy, Timestamped for macOS, iLEAPP and ALEAPP updates, and more.
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Read the latest DFIR news - UK police investigator well-being, cloud search warrant strategy, Timestamped for macOS, iLEAPP and ALEAPP updates, and more. www.forensicfocus.com/news/... #DigitalForensics #DFIR
Join Rich Frawley of ADF Solutions as he shares practical strategies for managing complex ICAC scenes, prioritizing the devices most likely to contain probative evidence, and making faster, more informed decisions in the field. www.forensicfocus.com/news/... #ADFSolutions #ICAC #DigitalForensics
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Paul Gullon-Scott examines whether £2.4m for police well-being is enough to turn good national initiatives into meaningful support on the ground. #digitalforensics
£2.4 Million For UK Police Well-Being – What Will It Actually Buy?
Paul Gullon-Scott examines whether £2.4m for police well-being is enough to turn good national initiatives into meaningful support on the ground.
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New CPD-accredited training from our Well-Being Lead, Paul Gullon-Scott, is now available to help digital forensic investigators and their organisations better understand and manage the psychological demands of the role — book your place today. #digitalforensics
New DFIR Mental Health Training Webinar (CPD-Accredited)
New CPD-accredited training from our Well-Being Lead, Paul Gullon-Scott, is now available to help digital forensic investigators and their organisations better understand and manage the psychological demands of the role — book your place today.
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From mobile extractions and emails to cloud data and video, see how Cellebrite Genesis brings diverse evidence sources together to help enterprise investigators reach faster, source-traceable and defensible findings. #digitalforensics
Investigations Don’t Arrive In One Tidy Format
From mobile extractions and emails to cloud data and video, see how Cellebrite Genesis brings diverse evidence sources together to help enterprise investigators reach faster, source-traceable and defensible findings.
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The 14th annual Volatility Plugin Contest is now open! Entries are invited for new open source memory forensics plugins, with cash prizes on offer. The submission deadline is 31 December 2026. volatilityfoundation.org/th... #DigitalForensics
The 14th Annual Volatility Plugin Contest is Open!
We are excited to announce that the 14th Annual Volatility Plugin Contest is officially open for submissions! The annual Plugin Contest is your opportunity to: Directly contribute to the open sourc…
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See how BelkaGPT turns image forensics from “scroll and squint” into “describe and detect” with offline AI image descriptions and instant custom classifiers – no training datasets required. #digitalforensics
AI Image Classification For Forensics – Build Custom Detectors In Seconds | BelkaGPT
See how BelkaGPT turns image forensics from “scroll and squint” into “describe and detect” with offline AI image descriptions and instant custom classifiers – no training datasets required.
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A major new HMICFRS report exposes the urgent need for proactive, mandatory mental health support for digital forensic investigators and others working daily with online child sexual abuse material. #digitalforensics
Protecting Those Who Protect Children: Inspection Findings And The Evidence Base For Investigator Well-Being
A major new HMICFRS report exposes the urgent need for proactive, mandatory mental health support for digital forensic investigators and others working daily with online child sexual abuse material.
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Turn partial school badges into actionable leads with S21 School Badge Lookup v2.0, fast offline image intelligence built for CSAM and ICAC investigations worldwide. #digitalforensics
Unmasked: Early Intelligence Should Not Be Manual
Turn partial school badges into actionable leads with S21 School Badge Lookup v2.0, fast offline image intelligence built for CSAM and ICAC investigations worldwide.
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Join Rich Frawley of ADF Solutions as he shares practical strategies for managing complex ICAC scenes, prioritizing the devices most likely to contain probative evidence, and making faster, more informed decisions in the field. #digitalforensics
UPCOMING WEBINAR – Reducing ICAC Backlogs: Prioritizing Digital Evidence For Faster Investigations
Join Rich Frawley of ADF Solutions as he shares practical strategies for managing complex ICAC scenes, prioritizing the devices most likely to contain probative evidence, and making faster, more informed decisions in the field.
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Read the latest DFIR news - NIST’s new ArtCat digital forensics catalog, Kohberger case methodology, Android intrusion log analysis, offline AI with BelkaGPT, and more. www.forensicfocus.com/news/... #DigitalForensics #DFIR
Explore a selection of the latest DFIR employment opportunities in this week’s Forensic Focus jobs round-up. #digitalforensics
Digital Forensics Jobs Round-Up, August 10 2026
Explore a selection of the latest DFIR employment opportunities in this week’s Forensic Focus jobs round-up.
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Learn how to identify and decrypt BitLocker Clear Key–protected forensic images using dislocker and bdeinfo, from spotting the “-FVE-FS-” signature to mounting the recovered NTFS volume for analysis. #digitalforensics
How To Process A Clear-Key BitLocker Image File To Generate A Decrypted Raw Image
Learn how to identify and decrypt BitLocker Clear Key–protected forensic images using dislocker and bdeinfo, from spotting the “-FVE-FS-” signature to mounting the recovered NTFS volume for analysis.
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Can trauma show up as misconduct? Paul Gullon-Scott explores how cumulative trauma and organisational stress can shape behaviour in policing and digital forensics and why earlier, trauma-informed support could make all the difference. #digitalforensics
Misconduct Or Mental Injury? A Question Policing Can No Longer Avoid
Can trauma show up as misconduct? Paul Gullon-Scott explores how cumulative trauma and organisational stress can shape behaviour in policing and digital forensics and why earlier, trauma-informed support could make all the difference.
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From record-breaking imaging speeds to automated RAID reconstruction and 50 Gbit/s networking, discover how TaskForce evolved over eight years into a comprehensive forensic acquisition platform built to remove investigators’ next bottleneck. #digitalforensics
The Evolution Of Atola TaskForce: Eight Years Of Non-Stop Innovation
From record-breaking imaging speeds to automated RAID reconstruction and 50 Gbit/s networking, discover how TaskForce evolved over eight years into a comprehensive forensic acquisition platform built to remove investigators’ next bottleneck.
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Discover what’s new on Forensic Focus – trace eight years of innovation with Atola TaskForce, explore how BelkaGPT brings offline AI to digital investigations, learn why the first 60 minutes with digital evidence matter, and more. #digitalforensics
Forensic Focus Digest, August 07 2026
Discover what’s new on Forensic Focus – trace eight years of innovation with Atola TaskForce, explore how BelkaGPT brings offline AI to digital investigations, learn why the first 60 minutes with digital evidence matter, and more.
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In 2017, Dutch investigators infiltrated one of the dark web’s biggest marketplaces and turned user activity into evidence. Learn more in this new video from fern: youtu.be/V6d8Yy7Ji68?si=vsj... #DigitalForensics #CyberCrime
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Reduce unnecessary investigator exposure without changing your workflow: S21 AI Describe v2.0 delivers fast, accurate, structured image and video-frame descriptions entirely offline – available standalone or within S21 VisionX. #digitalforensics
Unmasked: Exposure Is A Workflow Choice
Reduce unnecessary investigator exposure without changing your workflow: S21 AI Describe v2.0 delivers fast, accurate, structured image and video-frame descriptions entirely offline – available standalone or within S21 VisionX.
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