Computer Forensics and Personal Digital Assistants

Document Type

Syllabus

Publication Date

1-1-2023

Abstract

Across the world organizations and corporates are spending huge budget on information security as increasing security risks. Spreading usage of computers and mobile devices such as PDAs, smart phones is generating opportunities for business and creating a lot of benefits for organizations. On the other side they are posing new challenges for policing cybercrimes. Digital forensic a new science has been introduced to handle cyber and digital crimes. The forensic science deals with digital crimes as well as crimes involving digital devices like computers, PDAs etc. Most of the processes are being automated due to rapid development and advancement of digital computing and communication technologies. With increasing of information and internet technologies confidential information is stored on computer based systems and majority of people share their information on popular social media networks such as Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Linkedin, Youtube, etc. There is a significant growth in crimes in the whole world due to the progression of communication and information technology. Criminals convict like kidnapping, murders, extortion, drug dealing, gambling, robbery, sexual assault, cyber terrorism, weapon dealing, economic crimes, and criminal hacking such as theft of computer files, Web defacements through computers and mobile digital devices. So, these technologies have to become an important part of forensic sciences. By using of scientific knowledge and procedures to pursue, find, analyze, and preserve evidence of a crime to present well in a court are forensic sciences or criminalistics. The matching of DNA, comparing finger prints and examining body are the latent evidences to analyze and recovery in a crime and these are major concern of forensic sciences. Computer and other digital devices such as personal digital assistant have the great serving position in forensics to support justice today. Digital evidences through these devices to ensure truth have become significant part a legal process. So, the analysis of computer forensics and personal digital assistant has great importance and its analytical research is necessary to a part of this chapter.

Identifier

85164988409 (Scopus)

ISBN

[9781119760412, 9781119763406]

Publication Title

Modern Forensic Tools and Devices Trends in Criminal Investigation

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119763406.ch1

First Page

1

Last Page

22

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