Mr. A is working as a CEO in a leading financial institution. On weekends, he spends time with family and on his hobbies like photography, singing and reading books. He is also active on various social media platforms an

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Mr. A is working as a CEO in a leading financial institution. On weekends, he spends time with family and on his hobbies like photography, singing and reading books. He is also active on various social media platforms and uploads their activities on the platforms. Last month, he participated in a professional photography exhibition and presented his photographs to viewers and got appreciation and won award for that. After some time, he found some threat posts on his social media platforms and he becomes a victim of online harassment and cyberbullying. The perpetrator continuously posts defamatory content and threats against Mr. A, causing significant distress and reputational damage. IT Analyst of Mr. A's Company discovers a data breach compromising sensitive customer information, including banking credentials and personal details. The breach exposes thousands of customers to identity theft and financial fraud raising concerns about data protection and cyber security. The aim of the Mr. A's organization is to prevent any data breach incident before any malware is able to access network server or before vulnerabilities in the software are exploited by hackers. One day Mr. A found that his copyrighted images being used without authorization on various websites and social media platforms. Despite his efforts to request the removal of infringing content, the unauthorized use persists, leading to financial losses and infringement of his intellectual property rights. His wife is an active social worker and she post the social work activities governed by her on the social media like Facebook and Instagram. She is a shopping lover and lost her credit card last week in the market and forgot to take action on missing credit cards. Recently she received a series of obscene messages from an unknown number. The accused also sent emails to her and created a fake account on Facebook containing morphed and offensive images of her. She receives a message from the bank about the deduction of some amount against online purchasing. An online marketplace experiences a surge in fraudulent transactions, with perpetrators using her stolen credit card information to make unauthorized purchases. The fraudulent activities result in financial losses for both the e-commerce platform and affected her with mental stress. She suggests to the e-commerce platform for the need of apply robust cyber security measures and fraud detection mechanisms. Legal experts analyze each scenario of Mr. A's Family in light of relevant Indian cyber laws, judicial precedents, and established legal principles to determine the appropriate legal recourse and potential liabilities for the parties involved. Based on the specific facts and circumstances of each case, strategies are developed to address the legal challenges, protect the rights of victims, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. Through litigation, negotiation, or alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, legal professionals work towards achieving favorable outcomes for their clients, whether it involves obtaining compensation for damages, securing injunctions, or prosecuting cybercrime offenders. In the above case scenario, answer the following questions: On a complaint filed by Mr. A for the alleged identity theft committed by a cyber criminal named X, a police inspector was appointed to investigate cyber offence. The police inspector sent the laptop to Mr. A to the forensic lab for further analysis and investigation. The forensic lab used sophisticated methods to analyse the information contained in these hard drives, email accounts, social networking sites, and other digital archives to retrieve and assess any information that can serve as a viable evidence to prove that X committed cyber crime. Which field of technology will be used as investigative techniques to identify and store evidence from a computer? Also state its types.

Answer & Explanation:

In general parlance, computer forensics is a field of technology that uses investigative techniques to identify and store evidence from a computer device. Often, computer forensics is used to uncover evidence that could be used in a court of law. Computer forensics also encompasses areas outside of investigations. Sometimes professionals in this field might be called upon to recover lost data from drives that have failed, servers that have crashed or operating systems that have been reformatted. Different Types of Computer Forensics are Disk Forensics: It deals with extracting raw data from the primary or secondary storage of the device by searching active, modified, or deleted files. Network Forensics: It is a sub-branch of Computer Forensics that involves monitoring and analyzing the computer network traffic. Database Forensics: It deals with the study and examination of databases and their related metadata. Malware Forensics: It deals with the identification of suspicious code and studying viruses, worms, etc. Email Forensics: It deals with emails and their recovery and analysis, including deleted emails, calendars, and contacts. Memory Forensics: Deals with collecting data from system memory (system registers, cache, RAM) in raw form and then analysing it for further investigation. Mobile Phone Forensics: It mainly deals with the examination and analysis of phones and smartphones and helps to retrieve contacts, call logs, incoming, and outgoing SMS, etc., and other data present in it.

Topics: Cyber Forensics

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