Computer Forensics For Beginners

What are the computer forensic trends your seeing in the lab ?

It's the amount of data that an average person generates is growing with no end in sight. Smart phones allow custodians to write discoverable data to social media sites like twitter, FaceBook, Chat Rooms, and Linkedin. Forensic labs like digitalDNA group conducts web based email and social media investigation. Web based emails like Hotmail, Gmail, and social media sites can be searched for responsive data and forensically preserved and searched by date range, keyword and more.

Another forensic trend is the amount of intentional spyware that's found on the user's hard drives and phones. In some cases our lab has had hard drives with more than 36 known spy-ware files that ranges from reading your email, secretly stealing client data to pinpointing your every location based on your phones GPS.

Are there any new advancement for preserving the data?

There's great options for forensically preserving data. Forensic labs like digitalDNA group offers onsite and remote connect to eliminate the travel cost while increasing preservation response time. The current trend is having certified forensic examiners go onsite and forensic collect and document the process at the custodians location.

New generation of Computer Forensic Experts can analyze your hard drive, by-pass the passwords and quickly zero-in on the investigative issues. Whether its recovering financial transactions, or linking individuals to individuals; they deliver the evidence with court ready forensics lab reports.

By: David York.