Digital Forensics. What you see ??


Digital Forensics. What you see ??



What is forensics ?? -this is what google says-
Forensic science is the application of science to criminal and civil laws, mainly on the criminal side during criminal investigation, as governed by the legal standards of admissible evidence and criminal procedure.

Digital Forensic

Digital forensic science pertaining to evidence found in computers and digital storage media. The goal of computer forensics is to examine digital media in a forensically sound manner with the aim of identifying, preserving, recovering, analyzing and presenting facts and opinions about the digital information. Experts use a systematic approach to examine evidence that could be presented in court during proceedings.

Digital forensics is commonly used in both criminal law and private investigation. There are some software and tools that helps us to read through different types of evidence. It is glad to say some of these are simple and common software that use in day-to-day life.

  • Image analyze –exif meta data/lightroom
  • Recovering and file carving –Recuwa / Autopcy
  • Live Memory acquisition – 504ensicsLabs-Lime/Volatility
  • Windows Registry – Regedit /FTK Registry viewer
  • Sounds and Recordings, Internet History,  Emails, Text Messages, Social media

Nowadays there are good quality forensic analyzing organizations in the world. Most of them are government forensic institutions like CART (Computer Analysis Response Team) of FBI. Sri Lanka has established an organization named “Centre for Digital Forensics” (CDF), to support the services of the Court with their digital analytical skills.  DFC was established in 2011 by modifying the ordinance of University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) by a special announcement since UCSC was requested to support respective law and order institutes in the digital forensics’ activities.



Computer forensics has become its own area of scientific expertise, with accompanying coursework and certification. Learning Computer Forensic will be give you a different kind of career experience than a developer if you are desired of ethical hacking. But you will also have analytical talent, tech skills, understanding of cybersecurity, extremely organization and communication skills apart from the tech skills.

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