CO4507 Digital Forensic Investigation
Introduction
Nowadays digital devices are everywhere in our life’s helping peoples in many sectors and providing possibilities to them. By pronounce the term “digital devices” the majority of the peoples thinking the computers, smart phones, tablets and the cloud applications. Now the digital devices are important not only in our work environment, or for entertainment and educational reasons, but are important because we can use them as digital evidence. Any kind of technology that processes information can be used in a criminal way vise versa can be used as digital evidence in the court. For example the new version of TVs can sign in the web store images etc. for this we can understand that a TV nowadays it can be used for digital evidence. The most
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Laptops include components and inputs of a desktop computer; include the display, speakers, web camera, microphones, a keyboard and a pointing device. Personally I use my laptop for educational reasons, for entertainment and for remote connection to my job desktop, this help me to work from abroad. As I mentioned before I have an android base mobile phone basically for communication reasons and entertainment purposes some of the times I use it also to for web applications and read articles for information. One Drive for Business is a cloud place where I can store, sync, and share my work files. As part of Office 365 or SharePoint Server 2013, One Drive for business lets me update and share my files from anywhere and work on Office documents with others at the same time. In my work environment I use VDI; virtual desktop infrastructure gives me the opportunity to run my desktop inside a virtual machine that exists in a server far away in a datacenter. This is very powerful form of desktop virtualization because it enables fully personalized desktops for each user with all the security and simplicity of centralized
This ultimately results is a subsequent communication which requires the holder to disclose those passwords or taking on an additional task of tracking the passwords. In both the cases, the level of work is expanded and the police investigator has to take on additional tasks then he was initially required to. This while increasing the cost of investigation also increases the time taken in investigation. Therefore while identifying the property, or the hardware of the computer, an inclusion needs to be made in relation to the passwords that may be protecting that hardware. Similarly for the data demanded in the digital format the investigator, would have to highlight that mere data in digital format is not required, but also the passwords or the code's which restrict access to that data are also required.
A search warrant was executed at his office where many materials were seized. Among those things that were taken was a flash drive. This flash drive fell under the electronic recording materials listed in the search warrant. This report covers the processes and findings of the previously mentioned flash drive. The first step is to make sure that the image file was not tampered with in any way.
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.
Lowry Williams IS 4670 Cybercrime Forensics Unit 5 Assignment 1 Create data recovery plan Data the count may order or give you authorize to seizure a computer so that you may be able to extracted things from the computer’s hard drives. You need to do it in many difference phases you want to insure that the integrity of the computer evidence. You should copies all the files onto a write once only CD- read only memory disks. You may want to “ clone” your computer hard drive, you would do this, because you would not want to mess up the hard drive that was on your computer. This also means that you would be copying everything this will including the operating software.
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
Pleading the Fifth Technology seems to come hand in hand with modernity. It has made most tasks that used to take days to complete much easier. Technology has also improved the channels of communication. The invention of the modern day smart cellphone coupled with social media networking has allowed mankind to be in constant contact with one another from across the globe.
Science has come a long way over the years. It has helped countless every day struggles and cure diseases most commonly found. What you don’t hear about however is the advancement of forensic science. Forensic science has helped solve countless cases of murder, rape, and sexual assault. In the case of John Joubert, it helped solve the murders of three young boys with one small piece of evidence that linked him directly to the crime.
With the introduction of new technology in recent years, the government can discreetly capture evidence from electronic files,
“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,
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
Today, practical methods of using fingerprinting are extremely wide. In 1995, the size of the FBI fingerprint card archive contained over 200 million items, and archive size was increasing at the rate of 30,000 to 50,000 new cards per day [2]. Forensic science was the very first and most important area of its application, which still remains. The rapid development of computer technology has made it possible to create such fingerprint scanners that can be installed on laptops, cell phones, flash drives,
Crime has been at its highest this year. Forensic science has played a major part in investigating crimes and searching for evidence that is not seen by the naked eye(Dillon). The field of forensics is continually growing, causes of death have become more interesting, autopsies are more critical, and the salary is appreciable(Gewin). Since there are only 18 forensic science undergraduate programs in the US that have been authorized by the American Academy of Forensic Science, my prospective college choices are limited. After tackling the time it will take to earn my bachelors in forensics(4 years), then finish medical school and four years of residency, it will eventually all be worth the wait.
The following section will consider advantages and limitation of the first two mentioned types of digital forensics: Traditional (dead) and Live computer forensics. TRADITIONAL (DEAD) VS LIVE DIGITAL FORENSICS Traditional (Dead) Forensics In order forensic acquisition to be more reliable it must be performed on computers that have been powered off. This type of forensics is known as ‘traditional’ or 'dead ' forensic acquisition. The whole process of dead acquisition, including search and seizure flowchart and acquisition of digital evidence flowchart is shown on Figure 2 and Figure 3 respectively.
Task 2 2B Digital technology ¬– a health threat? We live in a rapidly changing, highly technological world, where the present day digital technology affects several parts of our lives. At work, people use digital technology to communicate, gather information and solve problems relevant to their place of work. A growing number of people also use digital technology at home, to keep in touch with friends and family, check bank balances, play interactive games, participate in online forums and interact with others on social media websites and mobile apps, such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.