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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

Fundamentals of memory

What information does random access memory (RAM) contain? It will give you information about the current running state of the system before you shut it down. It will contain information about any running programs; these could be legitimate processes, and it could contain running malware processes as well. If attackers have compromised the host, the malware may be a resident in the RAM.

You will also find information related to the host’s network connections with other peers. This could be a legitimate use of peer-to-peer file sharing, or it could show a link to the attacker’s host. These connections are breadcrumbs for you to follow. The user could also be sharing illicit images. Again, the connection to other computers will allow you to follow and investigate additional users for the same crime.

If the user is using cloud services, we may never find the data they are creating on the physical disk in the system. Instead, we may only see...