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Computer Forensics

Computer forensics emerged in the 1980s as a method to recover and investigate digital evidence for use in court cases involving new computer crimes and fraud committed using personal computers. It involves examining digital media like computer systems and storage devices using forensic techniques to preserve, recover, analyze and present legal evidence in a forensically sound manner. While often used for computer crime investigations, computer forensics can also be applied to civil cases. The evidence collected undergoes the same guidelines as other digital evidence and has become more widely accepted in US and European courts.

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Computer Forensics

Computer forensics emerged in the 1980s as a method to recover and investigate digital evidence for use in court cases involving new computer crimes and fraud committed using personal computers. It involves examining digital media like computer systems and storage devices using forensic techniques to preserve, recover, analyze and present legal evidence in a forensically sound manner. While often used for computer crime investigations, computer forensics can also be applied to civil cases. The evidence collected undergoes the same guidelines as other digital evidence and has become more widely accepted in US and European courts.

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COMPUTER FORENSICS

In the early 1980s personal computers began to be more accessible to consumers and,
subsequently, began to be used for criminal activity (for example, to help commit fraud). At the
same time, several new "computer crimes" were recognized (such as hacking). The discipline of
computer forensics emerged during this time as a method to recover and investigate digital
evidence for use in court. Today it is used to investigate a wide variety of crime, including child
pornography, fraud, cyberstalking, murder and rape. The discipline also features in civil
proceedings as a form of information gathering (for example, Electronic discovery

Computer forensics is a branch of digital forensic science pertaining to legal evidence found in


computers and digital storage media. The goal of computer forensics is to examine digital media
in a forensically sound manner with the aim of preserving, recovering, analyzing and presenting
facts and opinions about the information.

Although it is most often associated with the investigation of a wide variety of computer crime,
computer forensics may also be used in civil proceedings. The discipline involves similar
techniques and principles to data recovery, but with additional guidelines and practices designed
to create a legal audit trail.

Evidence from computer forensics investigations is usually subjected to the same guidelines and
practices of other digital evidence. It has been used in a number of high profile cases and is
becoming widely accepted as reliable within US and European court systems

Forensic techniques and expert knowledge are used to explain the current state of a digital
artifact; such as a computer system, storage medium (e.g. hard disk or CD-ROM), an electronic
document (e.g. an email message or JPEG image).[2] The scope of a forensic analysis can vary
from simple information retrieval to reconstructing a series of events. In a 2002 book Computer
Forensics authors Kruse and Heiser define computer forensics as involving "the preservation,
identification, extraction, documentation and interpretation of computer data".[3] They go on to
describe the discipline as "more of an art than a science", indicating that forensic methodology is
backed by flexibility and extensive domain knowledge.

NIKHIL JAIN

4th year, JNIT

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