Learn Computer Forensics - Second Edition

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Types of Computer-Based Investigations

Welcome to the 21st century, where almost everything in life is connected to an electronic device. There are digital cameras inside doorbells; your smartphone tracks your daily progress from work to home and back again; you get social media updates when you go to the gym, a show, or travel to a new city.

Your phone calls, bank access, and medical appointments are tracked via digital technology. If it tracks your mundane daily activity, what about criminal or unethical behavior? Of course, that activity is also followed, and if you are a digital forensic investigator, you must know the repositories of the digital evidence and how to analyze it. All activity, benign or criminal, will most likely generate ...