Technical Trends
Digital forensics is a new field; however, people have been analyzing digital systems and associated components since the first computers began to be used in business. At that time, early forensic investigators used tools to store and process data and support decision making. The use of digital systems grew and evolved; so did the need to analyze those systems. Investigators needed to be able to determine what had been done and who was responsible.
One of the earliest uses of digital systems was to compute payroll. One of the earliest digital crimes was taking the “round-off”—the half-cent variance resulting from calculating an individual’s pay. A criminal would move that round-off to his or her own account. In this type of ...
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