Commercial forensic packages offer forensic investigators many benefits which help an investigator analyze and process the data quickly. Some of the methods included with commercial packages include imaging, recovering deleted data, searching for keywords, and viewing picture files. Another specialty feature of more expensive commercial software such as EnCase is...

One may find several crucial aspects that address the challenges in the collection of electronically stored information. The current ways of storing the data in the mobile devices bear the risk of leaking the information. In the cases of dealing with suspects, there is still a slight risk that the...

Forensic investigations on a wireless device is an emerging field in forensic science and law enforcement. Particularly, through mobile forensics, digital evidence can be extracted by recovering, gathering and analyzing data stored in wireless devices. Examples of data that can be collected from wireless devices include emails, text messages, transactions,...

Forensic science is an integral part of court systems. The unit provides valuable information for determining both civil and criminal cases. Forensic science needs to have a set of standards and guidelines. In an analysis of digital evidence, in particular, three guiding principles are required. They include an adequate examination,...

Forensic identification sciences are driven towards change by both scientific and legal forces. For a while, identification through forensic sciences had been considered to be of discernible distinctiveness. Nonetheless, these assumption has been proven to be inaccurate since there has been a growing body of evidence showing erroneous results from...