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Disk Image of a Linux : Assignment

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Running head: DIGITAL FORENSICSDigital ForensicsName of the Student:Name of the University:Author Note:
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1DIGITAL FORENSICSTask 2The assignment serves the purpose of providing an overview on some of the softwareand hardware that can be used to collect the disk image of a Linux based computer from thecrime scene that cannot be removed from the scene. Many tools can be found in the market,both open sourced and licensed that helps in digital forensic works. The main method is touse Linux Live CD that has an operating system of its own and can be used to gather diskimage from the computer at a crime scene, which cannot be removed from the scene (Nelson,Phillips & Steuart, 2014). However, Linux Operating System is often equipped with in builttools that help in the digital forensic jobs as well.The hardware requirement for collecting disk image is an external hard drive or anexternal storage device that has the required storage space to load the disk image that hasbeen retrieved from the computer (Quick & Choo, 2016).The software requirement is met by using a digital forensic tool, some basicknowledge on the modification of the BIOS setup of the computer if necessary and knowhowof using shell commands within the computer. In this case, the Linux dd is considered as atool to retrieve the disk image from the Linux computer (Rafique & Khan, 2013).Linux dd – This tool is preloaded in most latest Linux operating systems like Ubuntu andFedora. The tool serves the purpose of creating a drive image from the Linux based computeror forensically wiping a drive. To operate a dd, a command prompt window is required to beopened where the term dd is entered along with a set of command parameters depending onthe task that is required to be performed. In this case, the dd will be used to collect the driveimage from the Linux based computer (Sindhu & Meshram, 2012). The common dd syntaxfor the creation of a forensic image of a drive is as given below:
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