Criminal Prosecutors with Computer Forensics By-Jia-Yu Huang & Shirley Yeung
What is Computer Forensics ? It involves the preservation, identification, extraction, documentation, and interpretation of computer media for evidentiary and/or root cause analysis. Evidence might be required for a wide range of computer crimes and misuses Use for Computer Forensics: Discovering data on computer system Recovering deleted, encrypted, or damaged file information Monitoring live activity Detecting violations of corporate policy
Criminal Prosecutors Their job is to identify an individual that has commented a crime. They use computer forensic in order to track evidence such as emails, data, hard drives, documents, and illegal access to personal accounts. An example would be using IP addresses in order to track down infringement or illegal downloads.
Uses of IP Addresses with Crimes Fraud Example: Online auctions in which the company or provider receive money for a product from a consumer, but does not deliver the product. Child Pornography Example: Where Pennsylvania State trooper enter chat rooms in order to find illegal child pornography. E-mail Example: Harassment, Stalking, Terrorist Attacks
Investigative Procedure The Prosecutors get an IP address, that was used in the crime. Determined the ISP (controls IP address) Get a court order for the ISP to disclose which computer was using that IP address Get a search warrant to seize and search that computer Conduct a forensic examination of the computer to locate evidence left on computer when crime was committed.
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