You are working as an investigator for a corporation and you have just received instructions from your manager to assist in the collection of 15 hard drives that are part of an ongoing investigation. Your job is to complete the required evidence custody forms to properly document each piece of evidence as other members of your team collect it. Your manager instructs you to complete one multi-evidence form for the entire case and a single-evidence form for each hard drive. How will these forms be stored to help preserve the chain of custody of the case?
When a user deletes a file, the system creates a $I file to store its details. What detail does the $I file not contain?
Preparing an image drive to copy files to is the first step in Linux forensics. For this purpose, what would the following command accomplish?
dcfldd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=4096 conv=noerror, sync
NTFS has reduced slack space than FAT, thus having lesser potential to hide data in the slack space. This is because: