Computer forensics is a type of digital forensic science that deals with legal evidence found in digital storage media. The purpose is to observe, recover, link, and understand info found in computers. Computer forensics is similar to data recovery, and is associated with the investigation of computer crime and is also used in civil proceedings. It has been used in many high profile cases as evidence, and also is widely accepted as reliable in the European and United States court systems.
Personal computers developing overtime in history became more accessible to consumers and therefore began to be abused for criminal activity. Hacking and other frauds became new recognizable computer crimes. Computer forensics became popular during this time to recover and investigate evidence due to these emerging crimes. Today, computer forensics helps to investigate crimes such as child pornography, fraud, cyberstalking, rape, and murder.
Very Informative. Computer forensics is the application of investigation and analysis techniques to gather and preserve evidence from a particular computing device in a way that is suitable for presentation in a court of law.
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