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The use of science and technology in investigating and proving facts in computer-related criminal or civil cases.

Use of science and technology to investigate and prove facts in criminal or civil courts.

A documented record of who had possession of evidence and when, to maintain its integrity.

The application of forensics to digital data and devices.

Legal standard for determining the admissibility of scientific evidence in court.

Understanding of computer components and network structures necessary for forensic analysis.

Rules and regulations related to digital evidence and court procedures.

Government rules and regulations regarding computer forensics investigations.

The process of using scientific methods to collect, analyze, and present digital evidence in court.

Hidden or not immediately visible evidence (like files on a hard drive).

To recover, analyze, and present digital evidence for legal use.

Ensuring the security and accuracy of evidence to prevent tampering.

Any device capable of storing data (computers, smartphones, tablets, etc.).

Adhering to strict guidelines and avoiding shortcuts to maintain evidence integrity.

Applies to every part of an IT system, from user devices to the internet.

Information that is intentionally hidden or disguised, often using techniques like encryption, steganography, compression, or proprietary formats.

A technique used to hide information within other files, making it difficult to detect.

Actions taken by perpetrators to conceal their digital traces and make forensic investigations more difficult.

A method of scrambling information to make it unreadable without a decryption key.

Collecting digital evidence from a live system while it is still running, often used for encrypted data.

Methods used by attackers to hide their identity, location, and activity, like using public computers, encryption, or anonymous services.

Professionals skilled in collecting, analyzing, and presenting digital evidence in legal investigations.

The process of examining digital evidence to uncover facts and identify perpetrators of crimes.

ipconfig is a command used to display the IP address configuration of your computer. It provides information about your network connections, including your IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway.

A default gateway is a router that acts as a bridge between your local network and the internet. It allows your computer to communicate with devices outside your network.

ipconfig /all provides a more detailed network configuration, including information about your computer's name, when its IP address was last obtained, and other relevant details.

ping sends a test packet, called an 'echo packet', to another device to check if it's reachable and measure the time taken for the packet to return.

TTL stands for 'Time To Live'. It's a value that determines how many hops, or network jumps, a packet can take before it's discarded to prevent it from looping forever.

tracert traces the route a packet takes from your computer to a destination, showing the IP addresses of each intermediary network device (router) involved.

The information provided by tracert is not reliable enough to be used as evidence in forensic investigations, as it's subject to changes and can't be trusted for accurate historical analysis.

A packet can take multiple hops to reach a destination, depending on the distance and network complexity.

Interfering with an individual's access to their own communication data is considered a seizure, even without physically taking the data.

A legal concept that determines whether a person has a right to privacy in their communications or data. If a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy, their communications are protected by the Fourth Amendment.

Law enforcement doesn't need a warrant to access evidence that is clearly visible without any actions to uncover it.

Allowing law enforcement to search your property or access your data without a warrant, but requires authorized consent.

The extent to which consent allows law enforcement to search. For example, consenting to a house search doesn't automatically authorize access to computers within.

Only the actual owner or legal guardian can give valid consent to search a person's property or computer files.

Law enforcement generally needs a warrant to access data stored in computers, unless there's an exception like plain sight or consent.

Courts often use the analogy of opening a closed container to determine if a warrant is needed for accessing data on a computer.

A roommate can only consent to search shared living spaces and jointly owned computers, not their roommate's private belongings.

Customs officials at any border can search your belongings, including laptops, cell phones, and other devices, without a warrant.

If evidence is in imminent danger of being destroyed, law enforcement can search without a warrant, provided there's probable cause to believe the items contain evidence of a crime.

Searching beyond what a warrant allows is illegal, even if evidence is found.

A software used for digital forensics, designed to recover lost data and identify evidence of crimes.

A component of FTK used to identify specific types of files, like child pornography, within a computer.

The first person to arrive at a scene with digital evidence should preserve the computer's state by making a backup copy of important files.

The FBI recommends activating any auditing or recording software if a digital incident is in progress to collect more data about the attack.