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Learn Computer Forensics

By : William Oettinger
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Learn Computer Forensics

By: William Oettinger

Overview of this book

A computer forensics investigator must possess a variety of skills, including the ability to answer legal questions, gather and document evidence, and prepare for an investigation. This book will help you get up and running with using digital forensic tools and techniques to investigate cybercrimes successfully. Starting with an overview of forensics and all the open source and commercial tools needed to get the job done, you'll learn core forensic practices for searching databases and analyzing data over networks, personal devices, and web applications. You'll then learn how to acquire valuable information from different places, such as filesystems, e-mails, browser histories, and search queries, and capture data remotely. As you advance, this book will guide you through implementing forensic techniques on multiple platforms, such as Windows, Linux, and macOS, to demonstrate how to recover valuable information as evidence. Finally, you'll get to grips with presenting your findings efficiently in judicial or administrative proceedings. By the end of this book, you'll 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)
1
Section 1: Acquiring Evidence
6
Section 2: Investigation
12
Section 3: Reporting

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about the cornucopia of artifacts you can recover from RAM. You learned about the different tools you can use for the collection process and the tools you can use for analysis. Remember that the tools are always changing with the technology and as new operating systems are released, your primary tool may not collect RAM. Always have a backup plan in case something like that occurs.

You now have the skills to identify and capture RAM in a manner that conforms to best practices. As you analyze the RAM you have captured, you may find artifacts showing the user's activity on the system, such as social media artifacts and recovering passwords or encryption keys.

You may even find information relating to the user's use of email, which will lead us into our next chapter, which is all about email forensics.