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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

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed, in detail, timeline creation and timeline analysis with open-source and commercial forensic tools. We took an in-depth look at utilizing the commercial forensic tool, X-Ways Forensics, and the open-source plaso framework for log2timeline. We also touched upon using the kitchen sink approach or a targeted examination of the dataset. Remember, we are not analyzing the contents of files, just the timelines associated with the files and other events within the operating system and filesystems.

In the next chapter, we will discuss the contents of files, specifically, Windows artifacts.