This would require that a detailed description be given of the data that is the content of the computer which may have been removed from the computer and stored
i. Manage The term manage is used to mean acquiring the necessary contractual vehicle and resources that include financial resources that are used in running forensic labs and programs. It can also be used to mean to coordinate and build internal and external consensus that can be used to develop and manage an organizational digital forensic program. Management also is to establish a digital forensic team, usually, the one that is composed of investigators, IT professionals and incidents handlers to perform digital and network forensics. Management provides adequate workspaces that at minimum take in to account
Shipman, aka Dr. Death, murders are the postmortem examination whose analysis of skeletal muscle would have disclosed a significant quantity of morphine, aka heroin, that caused the victims’ deaths. The forensic document examiner is another forensic examiner employed in the Shipman case. Due to the forged will and location of the typewriter in Shipman’s possession, forensic document examiners were used to analyze the two to make a match. Forensic document examiners analyze typewriters, computers, printers, copy machines, and faxes. The examination results in the Shipman case resulted in individual characteristics displayed.
“The special properties and technical complexity of digital evidence often makes it even more challenging, as courts find it difficult to understand the true nature and value of that evidence (Boddington, 2015)”. It’s not uncommon for innocents to be convicted and guilty people acquitted because of digital evidence (Boddington, 2015). However, other factors can also affect the validity of the evidence, including: failure of the prosecution or a plaintiff to report exculpatory data; evidence taken out of context and misinterpreted; failure to identify relevant evidence; system and application processing errors; and so forth (Boddington, 2015). “There is a perception, largely undeserved, that digital evidence somehow alters the true nature of the original evidence and is therefore unreliable. Presented properly, digital evidence is capable of being of tremendous assistance to the courts (Hak,
4.7.5 Data Preservation and Isolation from the Network. The main purpose of a digital forensic report is to keep the data integrity, avoiding any type of data alteration, in order to present valid evidences, for instance in a court. The use of not valid software to check the stored information in a mobile phone can alter these information. The action of receive new data can alter the information stored, for instance an automatic firmware update, or remote device control with the risks involved. Therefore, it is extremelly important have the device completely isolated from the network.
There were cameras in their apartment unit at the time of her death, the accused told the police how to operate the security system but did not tell them about the hard drive. By the time they knew about it, it was gone. The hard drive was brought to Court by Mr Craig McCoy. An IT consultant had been asked to examine it. There were no deleted files and the crown examined it to see if the hard drive had been reset at any time but couldn't find anything to support that idea.
During the comprehensive forensic examination Assante’s personal laptop was subjected to an eighteen hour intrusive search using specialized equipment to open and read all files on the laptop, scanning the unallocated space on the hard drive for deleted files, then proceeding to
Many insufficient technology caused this case to spend many years without being solved until forensic technology became the key factor in this
John Smith was arrested for burglary and possession of a narcotic drug. There are several things that will occur in the first hour or so of John Smiths arrest. However, the process from arrest to arraignment and furthermore from John Smiths trail to incarceration then eventually his release to parole or probation is complex and interlocking. First, his person will be secured and transported to the police station to be processed.
Thus, forensic investigators, and also the courts, must trust that the vendor creating the software did so accurately, and has properly coded the software so as to obtain reliable results. Conversely, the source code of the software is typically made available in an open source tool, increasing one’s ability to test and assure the reliability of the software, and the accuracy of the results obtained. The National Institute of Standards and Technology provides a working group testing disk imagining tools that may be used in computer forensics, ensuring that the requirements are met. This is however merely one type of tool which is being tested, and whilst it is a step in the right direction, bodies such as the national institute of standards and technology do not assume liability for any results, nor do they certify
It also has various sub-branches such as mobile, database, anti-virus and router forensic. Hence, this course helps one to develop skill set that can be used to detect something wrong and if it has happened from which system and who has done it. It also has a number of processes that are taught in the course. It includes the preparation of the inquiry, the data collection from various resources, examination of different data and resources, systematic analysis of the data and proper reporting of the same to the concerned authority.
With the introduction of new technology in recent years, the government can discreetly capture evidence from electronic files,
An example of a self-forensic tool used for digital extraction is Evidence Center by Belkasoft (Lun, 2012). Evidence Center can be used by investigators with evidence extraction of “messenger history profile, allocated disk space, unallocated disk space, RAM, Pagefile and Hibernation file” (Lun, 2012). When using this program, investigators are able to store all extracted evidence from the instant messenger into a database, which can be used to further analyze the data (Lun, 2012). However, this program isn’t successful in retrieving every type of information, such as pictures or videos (Lun, 2012). As a result, investigators would need to use an additional program while tracing the instant message
Computer forensics processes must adhere to standards set by the courtroom that often complicates what could have been a simple data analysis. In court, knowing who connected to the system based on logs is not enough. There must be facts that will support those connection