Computer Forensics
Friday, March 7th, 2008Computer forensics or Digital Forensics, or Electronic Evidence Discovery is often referred to as the conservation, utilization and analysis of data stored on computers or other electronic media. Computer forensics has become an important tool and a source of information for the investigators, a works council, and the prosecutors. Legal assistance computer science investigators use their abilities to detect and recover formatted spoil the hidden or deleted files from computers or other electronic media, while the data of footpaths, the exact time and date stamps and the chain of protection and control measures. They also have access to protected or encrypted data with the help of specialized software. In addition, the increase in the use and dependence on the Internet for communication between businesses and individuals, the investigators are the team to analyze the e-mail, Internet, in research, the transfer of files, the online account transactions and everything that a computer used to access the Internet.