Digital Forensics and Cyber-Crime Investigation

Protect evidence integrity and preserve chain of custody by using hardware and software write blockers to prevent unauthorized writes to storage devices.

Demonstrates practical data acquisition and imaging of a storage device, selecting source drives, performing a bit-for-bit copy, and verifying hash integrity for case evidence.

Analyze Windows RAM dumps with Volatility, using command-line or GUI, to extract processes from a memory image and detect malware while preserving evidence integrity.

Demonstrate the procedure of creating and detecting steganography without external tools, using command prompt to embed a secret text message into an image and retrieve it.

Explore how forensics collects digital evidence and how anti-forensic techniques hide footprints and disrupt investigations. Identify methods investigators use to counter such tactics with authentic techniques.

Explore how to investigate website crimes by tracing links through domain and IP lookups, collecting screenshots and other evidence, and coordinating with authorities to identify domain owners and hosting.

The lecture outlines guidelines for collecting electronic evidence from a crime scene, focusing on PC and laptop hard drives, photography and radiography, power cable disconnection, and documenting hardware details.

Explore the scope of forensic science in India, including expert witnesses, licensing gaps, government vs private roles, and career paths from junior officer to private labs, with admissibility considerations.

Explore how to generate a forensic expert report for audio forensics, covering case context, chain of custody, technical details, audio analysis, and authenticity assessment using spectrograms and standard software.