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Mastering Python Forensics
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Mastering Python Forensics

by Michael Spreitzenbarth, Johann Uhrmann
October 2015
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
4h 15m
English
Packt Publishing
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Supporting the chain of custody

The outcomes of forensic investigations can have a severe impact on organizations and individuals. Depending on your field of work, your investigation can become evidence in the court.

Consequently, the integrity of forensic evidence has to be ensured not just when collecting the evidence, but also throughout the entire handling and analysis. Usually, the very first step in a forensic investigation is gathering the evidence. Normally, this is done using a bitwise copy of the original media. All the subsequent analysis is performed on this forensic copy.

Creating hash sums of full disk images

To ensure that a forensic copy is actually identical to the original media, hash sums of the media and from the forensic copy ...

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