The breakthrough addresses concerns that powerful quantum computers could eventually crack encryption standards to leave vulnerable financial systems, government communications, health data and media.

Experts suggest that digital forensics, including evidence from smart devices, could prove essential to making a breakthrough in the Nancy Guthrie case.

As the investigation into Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance continues with no suspect publicly identified and challenges with DNA ...

Danielle Vandenheuvel, a digital forensic analyst with Michigan State Police, testifies on Feb. 27, 2026, on day 10 of the Dale Warner murder trial.

A report by the House of Lords Science and Technology committee warns that the “collapsing forensic science system” in the country is a “national scandal waiting to happen”. The report highlights ...

Deepfakes first spread as a tool of a specific and devastating kind of abuse: nonconsensual sexual imagery. Early iterations often were technically crude, with obvious doctoring or voices that didn’t ...

A key piece of evidence could provide investigators with additional context surrounding Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance from her Tucson, Arizona, home as the search for the missing 84-year-old stretches ...

Data from cell phones entering the area of Nancy Guthrie's home around the time of her disappearance could help investigators determine a list of suspects, according to a digital forensics expert. “I ...

Imagine this scenario. The year is 2030; deepfakes and artificial-intelligence-generated content are everywhere, and you are a member of a new profession—a reality notary. From your office, clients ...

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (DC News Now) — The defense attorney for Brendan Banfield, accused in the murder of his wife and a stranger in an alleged plot to end up in a relationship with the family au pair, ...

In modern litigation, digital evidence is rarely optional. Emails, mobile data, collaboration platforms, cloud activity, and system metadata now sit at the center of many disputes. When that evidence ...

ATLANTA — Digital forensics has long been the work of sterile labs and locked rooms. But for federal agents executing search warrants in real homes sometimes in rural areas, sometimes waiting to get ...