Digital Forensics-CERTIFICATION (ACCREDITED)

Delve into digital forensics, locating, extracting, and analyzing data from devices, networks, and wireless systems, and learn cyber crime investigation steps, cryptography, and steganography techniques.

Explore how computer crime evolves with cyber forensics, covering physical, data-related, and software-related crimes, and examine data diddling, data leakage, trojan horses, viruses, salami logic, and trapdoors.

Explore hacking fundamentals by defining hacking as exploiting system flaws and unauthorized access, and examining white hat, black hat, gray hat, blue hat, elite hackers, and script kiddies.

Identify how spamming floods inboxes with unwanted commercial messages, harvests email addresses, and deploys spyware and ads; discuss opt-in, privacy risks, and persistent tracking through cookies.

Define cyber stalking as the use of the internet to stalk or follow someone, outline stalker motives, modus operandi, and methods like online harassment, email, messaging, threats, and identity theft.

Phishing attacks use fake emails and counterfeit websites to steal account or personal information by impersonating banks or service providers, employing spoofing and social engineering to induce quick compliance.

Explore how computer viruses damage infected systems and spread via email attachments, portable devices, websites, and scripts, with memory-resident, macro, filesystem variants, and worms.

Explore diverse cyber criminals, from curious youths to organized insiders and professional hackers, and identify targets like banks, military, and universities, driven by money, politics, or revenge.

Master cyber crime investigation techniques by learning to seize, preserve, document, and transport digital evidence, and maintain chain of custody across devices and networks.

Learn how email evidence supports digital investigations by tracing senders to IP addresses and locations, identifying phishing, spoofing, and fraud, and interpreting email content for crimes.

Analyze suspected digital images to extract metadata and forensic clues, including camera make and model, ISO, focal length, and image properties.

Explore cryptography, the practice of hiding information, and how encryption converts plaintext to ciphertext to ensure confidentiality and integrity, with public-key steps for encrypting and decrypting messages.

Discover steganography within digital forensics by learning how to reveal hidden data in images using the S2 software, including setup, image analysis steps, and encryption-based extraction.

Learn to collect memory data for digital forensics, using cache memory to locate data and retrieve time, last activity, disk keys, and history with specialized tools.

Establish secure computers with restricted access and data backups, assign security responsibilities, and enforce strong, unique passwords to prevent cybercrime and protect personal information online.