Computer Forensics Blog by Data Triage Technologies

Cellebrite’s UFED, a Must for Forensic Investigators!

imtiaz — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:57:32 +0000

The digitalization has transformed the criminal enterprise to a high tech, stealthy, global organization. Identity theft, money laundering, fraud, theft of intellectual property, etc., are a few to add in a long list of crimes happening in web 2.0. Imagine if your friend is charged with money laundering which he/she is not committed. What if [...]

Virtualization – A Threat To Hard Drive Data Recovery

imtiaz — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 05:31:42 +0000

Hard drive data recovery is the process of retrieving lost data from hard drive. This retrieval is done due to the inaccessibility of data through normal recovery processes. Notwithstanding the fact that your hard drive has crashed or locked up for some reason, you can recover the data using a variety of hard drive data [...]

Phone Log Reconciliation

imtiaz — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:20:00 +0000

Knowingly or unknowingly we transmit a lot of information over phones. While we may not realize or even see the need to keep such information, it becomes useful to retrieve phone log information for legal issues. In complex litigation, all information passing between the client and vendor is considered part of intellectual property or trade [...]

Why E-Discovery Protocol?

imtiaz — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 06:43:10 +0000

Too many Electronically Saved Information cases are left pending, without ever discovering the light of a solution in sight. The E-Discovery protocol is expected to facilitate the just, speedy, and inexpensive conduct of discovery involving Electronically Stored Information (ESI) in civil cases, and to promote, whenever possible, the resolution of disputes regarding the discovery of [...]

Scope of E-Discovery Protocol

imtiaz — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 09:58:43 +0000

E-Discovery has raised many important issues for litigators and their clients, including evidence integrity, preservation of meta data and its forensic value, recovery of electronic documents from backup tapes, the sheer volume of electronically stored information (ESI) and its impact on the scope of discovery and burden on the parties, and the suitable exchange of [...]

The Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance For Corporates

imtiaz — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 09:23:59 +0000

Auditing is a major concern of any company. Every organization should comply with rules and regulations set forth by the US government. One such regulation is Sarbanes-Oxley Act which applies to public companies. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was enacted as a reaction to a number of corporate and accounting scandals. These scandals shook the confidence of [...]

The Process for Recovering Electronic Evidence

imtiaz — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 01:16:55 +0000

There are two primary steps in the process of recovering electronic data; “acquisition” of the target medium, and a forensic byte-by-byte analysis of the data. Computer forensic science was created to address the specific and articulated needs of law enforcement to make the most of this new form of electronic evidence. Computer forensic science is [...]

Electronic Discovery Services

imtiaz — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 15:12:09 +0000

Electronic data discovery is a collection of huge chunks of data that is either lost due to some accident or deleted due to some reason. Such electronic data retrieved is used in litigation cases where electronic data is evidence. Electronic document discovery services for law firms and corporate clients involved in litigation are no longer [...]

Hard Drive Recovery Services

imtiaz — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 06:53:08 +0000

With the advent of technology there is a broad range of problems we encounter on a daily basis. The current trends allow us to store a huge amount of data in the form of files on computer hard drives. Hard drives have replaced the earlier cumbersome piles of papers that were susceptible to damage easily. [...]

Role of the Computer Forensics Expert Witness in the Litigation Process

imtiaz — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:30:10 +0000

Computer Forensics Computer forensics are used in criminal investigation, civil litigation, hacking, embezzlement, industrial espionage, insurance fraud and law enforcement or Internet/company property abuse. Computer forensics focuses on acquisition, restoration and analysis of digital data. In business world, computer forensics can be used to restore corrupted or lost data, resurrect outdated software environment, and analyze [...]

Network Security Auditing

imtiaz — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 06:26:57 +0000

The word audit brings a lot of scenes to your mind. A lot of unpleasantness is associated with this word. Network security audit does ring a bell of tax audit though in an altogether different sense. In the regular tax audit you can see people physically accessing your files and network security audit they crawl [...]

Why Do You Need A Computer Forensics Expert Witness

imtiaz — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:00:21 +0000

Since the turn of the millennium for personal and business purposes computers have become ‘the most must have contraptions’ and the usage and dependence on the Internet continued to move upwards. 80% of all corporate data is now being stored electronically and allowed to stay in electronic format. Then came the bad news. As the [...]

Does Your Company Have A Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT)?

imtiaz — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:09:59 +0000

Computer Incident Response Team is an expert group that handles computer security incidents. Whenever a new technology arrives, it is invariably dogged by misuse like the first worm in the IBM VNET and Morris Worm that hit Internet and paralyzed it. This led to the formation of the first Computer Emergency Response Team at Carnegie [...]

How The Computer Criminals Control Information – Types of Computer Crime

imtiaz — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:37:45 +0000

As computer-related crimes become more prevalent, understanding the types of computer-related crimes provides law enforcement an insight for investigative strategies. The first insight is knowing the types of computer crimes. Computer as the Target This computer crime includes theft of intellectual property. The offender accesses the operating program under the guise of the system’s manager. [...]

Computer Forensics Services Against Computer Vandalism

meshaalmaclean — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:06:38 +0000

Computer crime, cybercrime, e-crime, hi-tech crime or electronic crime generally refers to criminal activity where a computer or network is the source, tool, or target of a crime. Although computer crime and cybercrime are more properly restricted to describing criminal activity in which the computer or network is a necessary part of the crime, they [...]

Network Forensic Analysis Tools to Assess Network Vulnerabilities

imtiaz — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:09:45 +0000

Every organization today has some type of a network security policy to protect or secure its systems, but when there is a violation of organization policies with vulnerable attacks then forensic analysis plays a crucial role. The evidence in computer forensics may take many forms with the help of network forensic tools. Many network analysis [...]

Tips To Protect Your Server From Getting Hacked

imtiaz — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:30:22 +0000

Generally as we know that when we visit a web page or when you interact with any web application on internet, some of the information pertaining to us will be stored on the server. When the hackers enter into a hosting server they will try to obtain the root access of your server and will [...]

Computer Forensic Focus On Keystroke Logging

imtiaz — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:43:43 +0000

Computer forensics or digital forensics has extremely gone under rapid forensic application of computer investigation and is often followed up with expert witness in court. Computer forensics is something which you really need to do regularly in investigation process which will help, boost business and will also present evidence through out the legal process. To [...]

Email Discovery as Electronic Evidence

imtiaz — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:52:20 +0000

In today’s legal discovery world, electronically stored information requires special attention in litigation. The recent emphasis on producing electronically stored information requires an e-discovery team to apply legal principles to information technology. But electronically stored information in some cases drive them out of business, especially in companies as they are unaware to find electronically stored [...]

Hard Drive Recovery for Your Valuable Data

imtiaz — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:22:50 +0000

The most valuable assets of a company or an organization reside in files on computer hard drives. This is the main storage element in the system. In many cases the electronic evidence on the hard drive requires special skill and experience in data recovery to identify and retrieve the data. The current crisis of the [...]