Computer Forensics
The main users of Computer Forensics are law enforcement officers, as a large percentage of crimes in some way utilise digitally stored data. This data could be a phone call made on a mobile phone, (or cell phone), which could place an individual at the scene of a crime, (or of course away from it), accounts for illegal activities such as drug sales, images of pedophilia, human resource issues, hacking, email abuse, unauthorised data duplication, IP theft etc. Corporate organisations are utilising computer forensics more and more now as they often have to investigate incidents such as inappropriate computer use, inappropriate email use, unauthorised data duplication and disloyal employees. Human Resource departments and Internal Security are the biggest users of these specialist corporate services. Private individuals may also use these services. It may be the lover cheating on their partner, or inappropriate internet use by a family member.
Some Reasons
Computer Forensics Specialists are used: |
Known Practises within the Computer Forensics World |
- Forgeries
- Murder
- Industrial Espionage
- Theft
- Assault
- IP Theft
- E-Stalking
- Breach of Contract
- Computer Break-ins
- Phone ‘Phreaking'
- Digital Pornography
- Inappropriate Internet Usage
- Internet Abuse
- Inappropriate Email Usage
- Email Abuse
- Digital Fraud
- Inappropriate Data Duplication
- Unauthorised Data Duplication
- Bankruptcy Data Investigation
- Private Investigation of Personal
Computer
- Private Investigation of
Cellphone/Mobile Phone
- Private Investigation of PDA
- Blackberry Forensic Examination
- Disloyal Employees
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- Computer Forensics – Computer Hard Drives
- Laptop Forensics - Laptop Hard Drives
- Server Forensics - Server Hard Drives
- External Disk Forensics - External Hard Drives
- Mobile Phone Forensics – Mobile Phone SIM/USIM Cards
- Mobile Phone Forensics - Mobile Phones – Mobile Phones
- Cell Phone
Forensics – Cell Phones
- RAID 0 Arrays – Striped disk array
without fault tolerance – Raid 0 Forensics
- RAID 1 Arrays – Mirroring and
duplexing - Raid 1 Forensics
- RAID 2 Arrays – Hamming code ECC –
Raid 2 Forensics
- RAID 3 Arrays – Parallel transfer
with parity – Raid 3 Forensics
- RAID 4 Arrays – Independent data
disks with shared parity - Raid 4 Forensics
- RAID 5 Arrays – Independent data
disks with distributed parity blocks - Raid 5 Forensics
- RAID 6 Arrays – Independent data
disks with two independent distributed parity schemes - Raid 6
Forensics
- RAID 10 Arrays – Very high
reliability combined with high performance - Raid 10 Forensics
- RAID 50 Arrays - High I/O rates and
data transfer performance – Raid 50 Forensics
- RAID 0+1 Arrays – High data transfer
performance – Raid 0+1 Forensics
- Tape Forensics – Tapes and Data Cartridges
- PCMCIA Forensics - PCMCIA Hard drives
- Memory Card Forensics – Solid State Memory Cards
- Memory Card Forensics - Memory ‘Sticks’
- Memory Card Forensics - Camera Card Forensics
- PDA Forensics - Personal Digital Assistants
- NAS Computer Forensics – Storage Farms/Network Attached Storage
- Floppy Disk Forensics - Floppy Disk
- CD Forensics - CD. CDR. CDRW
- DVD Forensics DVD-r, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM
- Fax Machines Forensics – Fax Machines
- Photocopiers Forensics - Photocopiers
- LaCie Forensics - LaCie
Hard Disk Drives
- LaCie External Forensics - LaCie
External Enclosures
- Other Digitally
stored devices
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Call it what you will, it means the following:


It is the function of utilising scientifically proven methods to assemble together and process data found on a digital device, (computer, hard disk drive, mobile phone, memory card etc), and interpret that data for possible use in a court of law or other theatre of investigation. The evidence may assist in the prosecution or a criminal, help in the defense of an accused person, or be of intelligence to an individual who is seeking knowledge for either personal or professional reasons.