Overcoming Potential Legal Challenges to the Authentication of Social Media Evidence

Social media evidence is highly relevant to most legal disputes and broadly discoverable, but challenges lie in evidentiary authentication ...

viaForensics releases 10 Android YAFFS2 images

The YAFFS2 file system is widely used in Android devices, but to date has not been supported by the leading open source forensic toolkit, T...

What is it like being a digital forensics investigator?

A little bit of fun before the weekend... Thanks to everyone who entered the " What is it like being a digital forensics investigator? ...

Another Judge Rules Encryption Passphrase not Testimonial Under Fifth Amendment Analysis

Posted by barristerharri I previously discussed, on a bar association section blog in 2007 and 2009, the case of In re Boucher, where a U....

Interview with Yuri Gubanov, Founder of Belkasoft

Yuri is the founder of Belkasoft, an independent software vendor specializing in computer forensics and system software for the Windows an...

Forensic Focus site redesign

A short advance warning that I'm planning to make some changes to the site design this evening. There won't be any major changes, ju...

Harry Onderwater

A few days ago the Dutch forensics community - indeed, the wider forensics community - lost one of its founding fathers, Harry Onderwater. H...