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Computer and Information Security Handbook, 2nd Edition
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Computer and Information Security Handbook, 2nd Edition

by John R. Vacca
November 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1200 pages
78h 13m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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Hands-on Project

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The following is a partial project solution. The students should be able to expand on the following:

A common misconception is that when information or a specific file is deleted, it is permanently erased from the hard drive. In reality, the act of deleting a file does not actively delete any information. What occurs is a small portion of information that points to the location of the file on the hard drive is erased.

This pointer is used by the operating system to compile the directory tree structure and by removing this pointer file, the actual file becomes invisible to the operating system. Overtime, the location of the unwanted file will be overwritten by new information. Forensic technology exists to locate, ...

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