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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 client-based email analysis

A user has access to many email clients to retrieve, read, and send emails. Depending on whether you’re in the consumer or commercial environment, you may encounter different email clients. In the consumer market, you will find that Microsoft Outlook/Outlook Express will prevail because it is preinstalled on the system. In addition, Microsoft Outlook comes with the Microsoft Office suite. There are also freeware options available such as the Thunderbird email client.

You can conduct an email examination by exporting the container used by the client and opening it with the email client installed on your forensic computer. Another option is to utilize specialized commercial forensic software created for email examinations. The more common forensic suites will typically analyze the more common email client containers.

We will discuss some more common email clients in the following sections.

Exploring Microsoft Outlook/Outlook...