MN624

Read the enclosed case study (Case Study: famous cases digital forensics) below and
discuss following points:

 Discuss your options for acquiring the image

 What questions should you ask and how should you proceed?
 Explain three common types of digital crime
 Discuss the acquisition method that can be used.
 Discuss the options that can be used to recover the file.

After discussion submit a handwritten report to your tutor. Discussion is a

major requirement for this workshop; prepare your report after discussion
only.

PBL Case Study 2

Famous cases involving Digital Forensics

E-mails document the conspiracy to murder her husband

Static acquisition method can be used using forensic tools with capability to get data from
emails such OSForensics. Disk to image or disk to disk copy can be made.

Postings on Yahoo reveal a kidnapping

Live acquisition can be done in this situation so that the evidence on the internet can be acquired
before some can temper. Disk to image method can be used.

2005 Dennis Rader --- The "BTK" Serial Killer

Floppy disks are not used now a days. Thus, best acquisition method will be disk to image so
that the image can be used transferred into another device without using floppy disk. Also, most
of all the forensics tools can extract deleted data.

Assistant attorney general for Maine caught up in child pornography

As four computers were seized, and live acquisition could be hard. Thus, static acquisition can be
done on the station.

Prepared by: Dr Ammar Alazab Moderated by: July 2019

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References

http://forensicswiki.org/wiki/Famous_Cases_Involving_Digital_Forensics

Prepared by: Dr Ammar Alazab 2017