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The vast majority of modern criminal investigations involve some element of digital evidence, from mobile phones, computers, CCTV and other devices. Digital Forensics: Digital Evidence in Criminal Investigations provides the reader with a better understanding of how digital evidence complements “traditional” scientific evidence and examines how it can be used more effectively and efficiently in a range of investigations.

Taking a new approach to the topic, this book presents digital evidence as an adjunct to other types of evidence and discusses how it can be deployed effectively in support of investigations. The book provides investigators/SSMs/other managers with sufficient contextual and technical information to be able to make more effective use of digital evidence sources in support of a range of investigations. In particular, it considers the roles played by digital devices in society and hence in criminal activities. From this, it examines the role and nature of evidential data which may be recoverable from a range of devices, considering issues relating to reliability and usefulness of those data. 

• Includes worked case examples, test questions and review quizzes to enhance student understanding
• Solutions provided in an accompanying website
• Includes numerous case studies throughout to highlight how digital evidence is handled at the crime scene and what can happen when procedures are carried out incorrectly
• Considers digital evidence in a broader context alongside other scientific evidence
• Discusses the role of digital devices in criminal activities and provides methods for the evaluation and prioritizing of evidence sources
• Includes discussion of the issues surrounding modern digital evidence examinations, for example; volume of material and its complexity
• Clear overview of all types of digital evidence 

Digital Forensics: Digital Evidence in Criminal Investigations is an invaluable text for undergraduate students taking either general forensic science courses where digital forensics may be a module or a dedicated computer/digital forensics degree course. The book is also a useful overview of the subject for postgraduate students and forensic practitioners. ... Read more

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This book is intended to assist State and local law enforcement and other first responders who may be responsible for preserving an electronic crime scene and for recognising, collecting, and safeguarding digital evidence. It is not all inclusive but addresses situations encountered with electronic crime scenes and digital evidence. All crime scenes are unique and the judgement of the first responder, agency protocols, and prevailing technology should all be considered when implementing the information in this guide. First responders to electronic crime scenes should adjust their practices as circumstances - including level of experience, conditions, and available equipment - warrant.The circumstances of individual crime scenes and Federal, State, and local laws may dictate actions or a particular order of actions other than those described in this guide. First responders should be familiar with all the information in this guide and perform their duties and responsibilities as circumstances dictate. This is an edited and excerpted edition of a U.S. Dept. of Justice publication. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Soldiers Magazine, published by Soldiers Magazine on June 1, 2010. The length of the article is 1148 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Leaving a paper trail.(U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory Digital Evidence Branch chief, David Deitze)(Interview)
Author: Jacqueline M. Hames
Publication: Soldiers Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2010
Publisher: Soldiers Magazine
Volume: 65Issue: 6Page: 18

Article Type: Interview

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This is a major addition to the field: a complete guide for the investigator and prosecutor in criminal cases as well as an in depth tool for defense attorneys. The practical and procedural nature of this law enforcement tool makes its use often subject to legal error and misapplication. This situation makes the guide particularly useful to the criminal defense bar. Contained in the book are over 29 sample documents associated with wiretaps as well as all content requirements demanded by law. Minimization procedures are also included. ... Read more

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WOW IS THIS GOOD
This book, in my opinion, is the best wiretaps book out there.It includes intricate and easy to comprehend details in the using and purpose of various items in the intelligence field.I would reccomend this highly to all people who have the urge to learn wiretapping skills.Furthermore, the author, Anthony Alberti, has an obvious passion and deep understanding of his profession and can easily protray this in his book.So if you are interested in learning wiretapping skills, this book is top of the line and good for you.

outstanding
I found this book to be highly informative. The author seems to be an expert in this field

good
way to go tony........ ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Air Force Law Review, published by U.S. Air Force Academy, Department of Law on December 22, 2009. The length of the article is 8765 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Military criminal investigations and the Stored Communications Act.
Author: Thomas, Jr. Dukes
Publication: Air Force Law Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2009
Publisher: U.S. Air Force Academy, Department of Law
Issue: 64Page: 103(18)

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ADVANCES IN DIGITAL FORENSICS III

Edited by: Philip Craiger and Sujeet Shenoi

Digital forensics deals with the acquisition, preservation, examination, analysis and presentation of electronic evidence. Networked computing, wireless communications and portable electronic devices have expanded the role of digital forensics beyond traditional computer crime investigations. Practically every crime now involves some aspect of digital evidence; digital forensics provides the techniques and tools to articulate this evidence. Digital forensics also has myriad intelligence applications. Furthermore, it has a vital role in information assurance -- investigations of security breaches yield valuable information that can be used to design more secure systems.

Advances in Digital Forensics III describes original research results and innovative applications in the emerging discipline of digital forensics. In addition, it highlights some of the major technical and legal issues related to digital evidence and electronic crime investigations. The areas of coverage include:

- Legal Issues

- Insider Threat Detection

- Rootkit Detection

- Authorship Attribution

- Forensic Techniques

- File System Forensics

- Network Forensics

- Portable Electronic Device Forensics

- Evidence Analysis and Management

- Formal Methods

This book is the third volume in the annual series produced by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 11.9 on Digital Forensics, an international community of scientists, engineers and practitioners dedicated to advancing the state of the art of research and practice in digital forensics. The book contains a selection of twenty-four edited papers from the Third Annual IFIP WG 11.9 Conference on Digital Forensics, held at the National Center for Forensic Science, Orlando, Florida, USA in the spring of 2007.

Advances in Digital Forensics III is an important resource for researchers, faculty members and graduate students, as well as for practitioners and individuals engaged in research and development efforts for the law enforcement and intelligence communities.

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Digital forensics deals with the acquisition, preservation, examination, analysis and presentation of electronic evidence. Networked computing, wireless communications and portable electronic devices have expanded the role of digital forensics beyond traditional computer crime investigations. Practically every crime now involves some aspect of digital evidence; digital forensics provides the techniques and tools to articulate this evidence. Digital forensics also has myriad intelligence applications. Furthermore, it has a vital role in information assurance – investigations of security breaches yield valuable information that can be used to design more secure systems.

Advances in Digital Forensics describes original research results and innovative applications in the emerging discipline of digital forensics. In addition, it highlights some of the major technical and legal issues related to digital evidence and electronic crime investigations. The areas of coverage include:

• Themes and Issues in Digital Forensics
• Investigative Techniques
• Network Forensics
• Portable Electronic Device Forensics
• Linux and File System Forensics
• Applications and Techniques

This book is the first volume of a new series produced by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 11.9 on Digital Forensics, an international community of scientists, engineers and practitioners dedicated to advancing the state of the art of research and practice in digital forensics. The book contains a selection of twenty-five edited papers from the First Annual IFIP WG 11.9 Conference on Digital Forensics, held at the National Center for Forensic Science, Orlando, Florida, USA in February 2005.

Advances in Digital Forensics is an important resource for researchers, faculty members and graduate students, as well as for practitioners and individuals engaged in research and development efforts for the law enforcement and intelligence communities.

Mark Pollitt is President of Digital Evidence Professional Services, Inc., Ellicott City, Maryland, USA. Mr. Pollitt, who is retired from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), served as the Chief of the FBI's Computer Analysis Response Team, and Director of the Regional Computer Forensic Laboratory National Program.

Sujeet Shenoi is the F.P. Walter Professor of Computer Science and a principal with the Center for Information Security at the University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.

For more information about the 300 other books in the IFIP series, please visit www.springeronline.com.

For more information about IFIP, please visit www.ifip.org.

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This digital document is an article from International Law Update, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2006. The length of the article is 616 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Seventh Circuit holds that Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act permits use of wiretap evidence obtained in international investigation for domestic criminal prosecution.
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: International Law Update (Newsletter)
Date: December 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 12Issue: 12Page: ITEM07014004

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Handbook of Digital and Multimedia Forensic Evidence presents an overview of computer forensics perfect for beginners. This volume will serve as a foundation and guide for: (a) students considering a career in this field; (b) the law enforcement investigator assigned to work cybercrimes; (c) establishing training programs for forensic examiners; (d) the IT professional; (e) the veteran forensic examiner; (f) the prosecutor faced with litigating cybercrime cases brought before a trier of fact. A distinguished group of specialist authors have crafted chapters rich with detail yet accessible for readers who are not experts in the field. Tying together topics as diverse as applicable laws on search and seizure, investigating cybercrime, and preparation for courtroom tesitmony, Handbook of Digital and Multimedia Forensic Evidence is the ideal overall reference for this multi-faceted discipline. ... Read more

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Computer Forensics: Evidence Collection and Management examines cyber-crime, E-commerce, and Internet activities that could be used to exploit the Internet, computers, and electronic devices. The book focuses on the numerous vulnerabilities and threats that are inherent on the Internet and networking environments and presents techniques and suggestions for corporate security personnel, investigators, and forensic examiners to successfully identify, retrieve, and protect valuable forensic evidence for litigation and prosecution.

The book is divided into two major parts for easy reference. The first part explores various crimes, laws, policies, forensic tools, and the information needed to understand the underlying concepts of computer forensic investigations. The second part presents information relating to crime scene investigations and management, disk and file structure, laboratory construction and functions, and legal testimony. Separate chapters focus on  investigations involving computer systems, e-mail, and wireless devices.

Presenting information patterned after technical, legal, and managerial classes held by computer forensic professionals from Cyber Crime Summits held at Kennesaw State University in 2005 and 2006, this book is an invaluable resource for those who want to be both efficient and effective when conducting an investigation. ... Read more

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A coherent, systematic, and comprehensive analytical study
"Computer Forensics: Evidence Collection And Management" by Robert C. Newman (Instructor of Information Systems in the College of Information Technology at Georgia Southern University) provides a coherent, systematic, and comprehensive analytical study of cybercrime, E-commerce, and Internet activities that could be used to exploit the Internet, the computers, and the various electronic devices employed by individuals, by government agencies, and by corporations. "Computer Forensics" addresses the many vulnerabilities and threats that are inherent to our computer age and presents the techniques and processes utilized by security personnel, investigators and forensic examiners to successfully identify, retrieve, and protect computer data as forensic evidence for litigation and prosecution. the first part of "Computer Forensics" is dedicated to exploring various crimes, laws, policies, forensic tools, and the information required to understand the underlying concepts of computer forensic investigation. The second part of "Computer Forensics" presents basic information relating to crime scene investigations and management, disk and file structure, laboratory construction and functions, and legal testimony. Of special note are the specific chapters concerning investigations involving computer systems, e-mail, and wireless devices. Presenting more than 200 key terms (with definitions supplied in the Glossary), more than 100 review questions and answers to solidify comprehension, offering optional exercises and cases emphasizing the book's content, two sets of forms with respect to forensic investigation and the procedures used in computer forensic laboratories, and a selected bibliography of special relevance for forensic professionals, "Computer Forensics" is the ideal textbook for college level computer science and information technology courses, as well as non-special general readers with an interest in the subject.

Good text book -- research device, not an introduction
This book is a great survey of the field of computer forensics.
There are notable gaps in actual technical detail, and more information than I was ready to digest on the handling of the data once acquired -- mostly the legal hoop-jumping required to maintain chain-of-custody.
If you're a techie looking for a HowTo, keep looking.If you've already got a grasp of the how, but need the fine details of handling, this book is a good reference tome.

very poor
This is the worst computer book I have read in a long time.If you already know about what data is, for names of different operating system keep looking.The only part of the this book that is about computer forensics is the part it says go to Devery University to learn the subject. Guess where the author teaches at? ... Read more

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Written by a former NYPD cyber cop, this is the only book available that discusses the hard questions cyber crime investigators are asking.

The book begins with the chapter "What is Cyber Crime?" This introductory chapter describes the most common challenges faced by cyber investigators today. The following chapters discuss the methodologies behind cyber investigations; and frequently encountered pitfalls. Issues relating to cyber crime definitions, the electronic crime scene, computer forensics, and preparing and presenting a cyber crime investigation in court will be examined. Not only will these topics be generally be discussed and explained for the novice, but the hard questions -the questions that have the power to divide this community- will also be examined in a comprehensive and thoughtful manner.

This book will serve as a foundational text for the cyber crime community to begin to move past current difficulties into its next evolution.

* This book has been written by a retired NYPD cyber cop, who has worked many high-profile computer crime cases

* Discusses the complex relationship between the public and private sector with regards to cyber crime

* Provides essential information for IT security professionals and first responders on maintaining chain of evidence ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Forensic Examiner, published by Thomson Gale on December 22, 2007. The length of the article is 2377 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Digital forensics in the twenty-first century.
Author: Gavin W. Manes
Publication: The Forensic Examiner (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 16Issue: 4Page: 12(6)

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A discussion of search and surveillance. The author seeks not to replace standard procedural works on the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and associated legislation governing the law of search and seizure in England and Wales, but to provide a survey of the law of search and seizure from an evolutionary perspective. The outcome of such an examination leads, inevitably, to a redefinition of orthodox notions of what constitutes a search in the context of criminal investigation. ... Read more

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this book is excellent and very helpful ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Stanford Law Review, published by Stanford Law School on April 1, 2010. The length of the article is 22353 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: This Article offers a general framework for applying the Fourth Amendment to the Internet. It assumes that courts will seek a technology-neutral translation of Fourth Amendment principles from physical space to cyberspace, and it considers what new distinctions in the online setting can reflect the function of Fourth Amendment protections designed for the physical world It reaches two major conclusions. First, the traditional physical distinction between inside and outside should be replaced with the online distinction between content and noncontent information. Second, courts should require a search warrant that is particularized to individuals rather than Internet accounts to collect the contents of protected Internet communications. These two principles point the way to a technology-neutral translation of the Fourth Amendment from physical space to cyberspace.

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Title: Applying the Fourth Amendment to the Internet: a general approach.
Author: Orin S. Kerr
Publication: Stanford Law Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2010
Publisher: Stanford Law School
Volume: 62Issue: 4Page: 1005(45)

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