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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

Exercise

Data set

Chapter 5 Emails.xlsx

Chapter 5 Carving.dd

Software needed

Timeline Explorer - https://ericzimmerman.github.io/#!index.md

Microsoft .NET 6 or newer is required. You will get errors without at least .NET 6. When in doubt, install it! Make sure you get the Desktop runtime if you plan on running any of the GUI programs.

Autopsy - https://www.autopsy.com/

Email exercise

An individual outside of m57.biz purchased a laptop from Craigslist. The laptop the individual purchased contained child pornography and they decided to inform the police about it.

Investigators were able to trace the laptop back to m57.biz. When the police contacted the CEO of m57.biz, the CEO reported that the laptop, as well as other items, had been stolen from the m57 inventory.

The m57 CEO gave consent for the police investigators to search m57.biz and image all of the m57.biz computers, company phones, as well as USB drives.

Analyze the emails found in...