Ethics Of Digital Forensics

Ethics of Digital forensics

Introduction The purpose of this article is describe the ethics of digital forensics .Digital forensics has become a predominant field in recent times and courts have had to deal with an influx of related cases over the past decade. As cyber related criminal attacks become more predominant in today’s technologically driven society the need for and use of, digital evidence in courts has increased. There is the urgent need to hold perpetrators of such crimes accountable and successfully prosecuting them. The process used to acquire this digital evidence (to be used in cases in courts) is digital forensics. Furthermore the digital evidence increasing growth of the Internet has increased the number of ways in which

But other aspects may be involved in the acquisition of evidence. some forensic investigators believe in gathering evidence before shutting down the suspect.s computer; this is a source of arguments within the forensics community whether to shutdown the computer immediately and preserve the exact state that it was found, or to gather evidence before shutting down in order to gain any volatile data that might be destroyed on shutdown.

And the second step is the authentication of the evidence is the process of ensuring that the evidence has not been altered during the acquisition process. Investigators authenticate the hard drive evidence by generating a checksum of the contents of the hard drive. This checksum is like an electronic fingerprint in that it is almost impossible for two hard drives with different data.

The last and most time-consuming step in a forensics investigation is the analysis of the evidence. It is in the analysis phase that evidence of wrongdoing is uncovered the investigator. Analysts can also inspect the contents of the Recycle Bin that holds files that are deleted by the user. When a file is deleted it is moved to the Recycle Bin where a record is created in a system file of the Recycle Bin. All the evidence had been computerized or digitized . This steps was proven as a way to protect and

The agency is known as CyberSecurity Malaysia (CSM). CyberSecurity Malaysia provides digital forensics services to the country. These services include: the secure collection and imaging of digital evidence; digital evidence investigation, analysis and presentation; analysis of audio and video evidence (analogue evidence); digital evidence protection and data recovery.

In the age of information technology, computers are used everywhere. Demand for digital forensic services has shown a tremendous growth over the past few years. Criminals use computers to facilitate their criminal intentions. Their activities, plans, or even information related to their crime may be stored in a computer. In a criminal proceeding, it is necessary to prove that the computer is associated with the accused. This is when an expert is needed to set his expertise in the area and provide an explanation to the court. CyberSecurity Malaysia has been the focal point in the country to assist in providing these services. This can be inferred from the statistics of cases referred to the agency for the past few