Email communication with lawyer via company-owned computer protected by attorney-client privilege
A court in New Jersey recently ruled that certain communications from a personal email account accessed through a work-issued computer are protected by attorney-client privilege. Computer forensics professionals searched the hard drive and were able to recover some of the emails from the plaintiff’s Yahoo! account. While the company in question (the defendant) had a [...]
DEFT Linux – Forensic Live CD
One of my favorite “inventions” of the modern computer age is the ability to boot into just about any operating system you’d like with a CD or USB drive. While Helix3 is an important tool in computer forensics, many other linux-based CD toolkits have multiple problems. Either a package wouldn’t be tested on certain hardware [...]
Digital Evidence: A Brief Analysis
Here’s an interesting take on evidence located on a suspect’s hard drive. One important piece to note is that there were artifacts from three separate email accounts, all of them which had a slight alteration on a single password. The fact that permutations of one password were used could indicate that the email accounts all [...]
Computer Forensics
Computer Forensics is a constantly evolving field. There are many different techniques and methodologies to creating a forensically sound image, depending on the type of media involved. From computers to smartphones, to SIM cards and Flash drives, there is always data that needs to be extracted in a manner so that the evidence is not [...]
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