by Chetan Gupta, NII Consulting A small experiment…Create a new text file. Edit it using Notepad and type “Hello” in it. save and exit the editor. Right click the file and check its properties. Did you notice the two attributes “Size” and “Size on disk”. It looks something like this on my Windows XP system […]
by Chetan Gupta, NII Consulting How many times in an investigation does a forensic investigator come across the problem of acquiring data from a suspect’s laptop? The answer to this question would be ‘many times’. Whenever such a situation arises, the investigator is usually in a dilemma as to whether he should open the laptop, […]
by Chetan Gupta, NII Consulting Evidence Collection is the heart and soul of the Forensics process. It becomes even more important if the evidence needs to be produced in a court of law. After the investigator has assessed the situation and determined a response strategy, he would move on to acquire the image of the […]
