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cyberforensics: concepts and types

 Goal of Cyber-forensics:- 1. Identify, Analyze and re-construct past events or activities. 2. Present admissible evidence to court First Computer forensics suite called The Coroners Toolkit  Computer Forensics - Gathering and Analyzing data in a manner as free from distortion or bias as possible to reconstruct data or what has happened in the past on a system. - Farmer and Venema, 1999 A science and process of collecting, preserving, analyzing and reporting legally admissible evidence to the court.  Types of Computer Forensics Technology- 1. System Forensics (Linux, windows etc) 2. Memory forensics 3. Mobile Device Forensics 4. Network forensics 5. Internet and cloud forensics digital forensics - meant to discover information about illegal activities of a user Anti-digital forensics- Designed to thwart discovery of information about illegal activities of a user. To manipulate, erase or obfuscate digital data. To make its examination difficult, time consuming or virtually...

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 Vulnerability- Weakness in a human, application, computer that can be exploited