Digital Forensics - Method Anti Forensics

Running head: DIGITAL FORENSICS
DIGITAL FORENSICS
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1DIGITAL FORENSICS
Explanation of Method
Anti forensics is a nightmare to the forensic investigators. I have learnt that there are
programmers that design the tools of anti-forensics to make it complicated for the
investigators to obtain information from the digital media. I have learnt that anti-forensics
refers to any method, software or any designed that is designed in order to hinder a forensic
investigation. I have known that there are various ways that people can hide information.
There are programs that can be fool a computer by altering the information in the headers of
files.
Critical Evaluation
I have studied earlier that a header of files is invisible to humans but is very essential.
It tells the computer the type of file the header is attached to (Kim et al 2017). I have known
that if a file is renamed to another extension then the signature of the file will still be that file.
Investigators should look for particular formats of files when they are investigating a case. I
have learnt that there are other programs that can split files into very small sections and then
hide the split files. I have studies about the slack space that the criminal can take advantage.
There are files that have spaces those are unused are called slack space. The criminal can hide
files by using the slack space with the correct program. I have studies that it becomes very
complex for the investigators to retrieve these kinds of files.
Conclusion based on Personal Experience
There are various ways by which data can be hidden by the criminal. I have studied
about encryption and steganography as the most common way to hide files. Encryption is
way to hide the sensitive data. When the criminal encrypts files, I have studies that they
utilise complicated sequence of rules in order to make the data unreadable. I have learnt that