Digital Forensics and Legal Applications

Digital Forensics 1
Digital Forensics
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Institution
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Digital Forensics 2
Executive Summary
Cyber wrongdoing culpability can be in fact complex and legitimately multifaceted. Fast
progressions in the usefulness of data correspondence advancements (ICTs) and intrinsic
variations between frameworks of law all inclusive are stark difficulties for specialists on call,
exploring experts, criminological investigators, arraigning organizations, and managers of
criminal equity. It is basically vital to investigate factors hindering examination and indictment
of cyber wrongdoing culpable to bring issues to light and open these obstructions to equity
(Bryant & Bryant, 2016).

Digital Forensics 3
Table of Contents
Executive Summary.......................................................................................................... 2
Scope of Engagement....................................................................................................... 4
Analysis and Findings....................................................................................................... 5
Legal and ethical considerations for investigating digital crimes...................................................6
Functions and features of digital forensics equipment, environment, tools.......................................7
Technical tactics in digital crimes, steps involved in a digital forensics investigation..........................7
Report on the results of an investigation............................................................................... 12
Conclusions.................................................................................................................. 13
Appendix.................................................................................................................. 14
References................................................................................................................... 18

Digital Forensics 4
Scope of Engagement
This is a hypothetical case about one: Jane.
Jane is an undergraduate student in her late-twenties going to a state-funded college in the
US. After accepting a progression of messages and texts containing sexually explicit remarks she
looks for assistance from her folks. Content inside the messages demonstrates that the sender
knows that Jane goes to a public university, the general population in her kinship circle, and
other individual data. The personality of the originator isn't revealed in the correspondence.
Worried that the sender might utilize identifiable data about Jane accessible on the Internet, her
dad performs an online research. He finds different remarks specifying Jane by name in postings
on sexual sites, which have all the earmarks of being facilitated abroad. In any case, both Jane
and her folks are hesitant to report the issue, as they trust police cannot examine wrongdoings
related to the Internet and innovation. Jane is additionally humiliated about the substance of the
postings and keeps up the episode is most likely not sufficiently genuine for police to explore.
About seven days after the underlying contact, Jane advises her folks that she got a call
from an outsider communicating enthusiasm for taking an interest in 'sexual dreams.' The guest
asserted to react to an online message before he hung-up. Jane shows her folks a posting she
found on an online announcement board containing her name and telephone number and a
message broadcasting that she fantasizes about being assaulted. Jane, therefore, gets an email
message containing dangers to hurt her.
Joined to the message are a few photographs delineating the house where she lives and
pictures of her meeting with companions at college. There is additionally a picture demonstrating
a thing of her apparel that she accepts was taken from the clothesline. Jane and her folks report
the issue to the nearby police station soon after that (Marcovici, 2014).