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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

Understanding USB/attached devices

There are several security risks associated with a USB device. They are small, portable, high-capacity storage devices that can be used to exfiltrate data from an organization, or they can be used to deliver malware to an organization to compromise its security protocols.

As a digital forensic investigator, you will want to know whether there were any USB devices attached to the host you are examining. We will now talk about some Windows system artifacts that will allow you to identify USB device usage on the host.

We will now look at the results for two registry keys. The first key can be found at the following path:

SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USB

This registry key identifies the USB devices attached to the system, as shown in the following output:

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Figure 6.34: Content of Registry key - SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USB

We can see there were two USB devices attached to the system at different times. We have different...