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Chapter 8: Email Forensics – Investigation Techniques

Email is just one portion of the global internet that has become a daily resource in the consumer and corporate realms. It has become one of the primary communication tools used by nearly every citizen of the industrialized world. Now that email has become part of everyone's everyday lives, it is very common that criminals will use this vector to commit crimes and to collaborate with their other co-conspirators.

It can be difficult for the digital forensic investigator to trace an email from its destination back to the source. The digital forensic investigator will have to be educated in the methods and delivery systems of the email life cycle. When the digital forensic investigator is successful ...