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Digital Forensics – How Hackers hide Data in Computers

By admin | Published: October 5, 2009
Basics of Digital Forensics The rate of cyber crime is increasing in our country. A latest survey reveals that over Rs 3500 million is lost annually due to white collar crime, which includes cyber crime. When law enforcement agencies investigate cyber crimes, they use digital forensics, which involves investigation of computer systems to unearth evidence against [...]
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Software for Forensics

By admin | Published: October 5, 2009
Investigators need software tools for file viewing, disk imaging, uncompressing files, identifying known files, performing string searches and accessing file metadata. WinHex software (www.x-ways.net) is used for making hard disk images, viewing files and recovering deleted files. ProDiscover (www.techpathways.com) is a forensic software which is used for disk imaging and file signature analysis to recover [...]
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