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Learn Computer Forensics – 2nd edition - Second Edition

By : William Oettinger
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Learn Computer Forensics – 2nd edition - Second Edition

By: William Oettinger

Overview of this book

Computer Forensics, being a broad topic, involves a variety of skills which will involve seizing electronic evidence, acquiring data from electronic evidence, data analysis, and finally developing a forensic report. This book will help you to build up the skills you need to work in a highly technical environment. This book's ideal goal is to get you up and running with forensics tools and techniques to successfully investigate crime and corporate misconduct. You will discover ways to collect personal information about an individual from online sources. You will also learn how criminal investigations are performed online while preserving data such as e-mails, images, and videos that may be important to a case. You will further explore networking and understand Network Topologies, IP Addressing, and Network Devices. Finally, you will how to write a proper forensic report, the most exciting portion of the forensic exam process. By the end of this book, you will have developed a clear understanding of how to acquire, analyze, and present digital evidence, like a proficient computer forensics investigator.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Index

Media analysis

You can use timeline analysis on several vectors, such as network analysis, media analysis, software analysis, and hardware analysis. Network analysis is where you analyze log files, trace files, and the communication content between users and their devices. Media analysis is analyzing physical storage devices such as hard drives, SSD drives, thumb drives, or optical storage disks. You will examine the content, allocated space, and slack space. Finally, when performing software analysis, you reverse-engineer malicious code and analyze the protection code for potential exports.

So, let’s look at media analysis. The primary source for your digital investigation will be the forensic images of storage devices such as hard drives, SSDs, USB devices, optical disks, and mobile devices such as smartphones. Depending on your organization, you may be the person responsible for creating the forensic image, or the forensic image may be provided to you from another part...