Ethics in Computer Forensics Investigation Ethical & Legal Issues in the Professions By: Pete Gonzalez Professor: Steven Osburn DeVry University 06/19/11 Computer Forensics Investigation has become a new widely increasing field of forensics investigation. As with any investigative field there comes a time when ethical issues and principles will arise. We can take a look at some of the ethical issues associated with computer forensics investigation. Computer forensics is a tool of collecting, analyzing, preserving, and presenting digital evidences collected from a computer in a legally acceptable manner. The process of computer forensics is thus quite complex and involves various activities.
The increase in computer use and digital communications has created a unique problem for the legal system in its effort to interpret the Fifth Amendment. Encryption technology is readily available and allows for simple and virtually irreversible scrambling of data to prevent its access by the government. This problem is saliently apparent in the cases of US v. Doe, In Re Boucher, and US v. Fricosu. During the course of investigations, the government in all three cases sought the unencrypted contents of hard drives under the control of defendants. Although the outcome was not the same for all three cases, the courts applied consistent and reasonable logic and case precedent when making their decisions.
Most utilities that perform this operation can also perform a DNS lookup on all the IP addresses as well to produce the end points names. When a malicious user has this information, they can review it to find a machine that may seem important, or they may just skip right to a direct attack on a random machine. Either way the attacker now has a basic knowledge of what they need to start forming an attack against. Take a second to think, you’re a robber that wants to rob a home in a neighborhood. You don’t want to just drive to an address in hopes that it is there.
This paper will look at the ethical issues and use of Personally Identifiable Information, commonly known as PII, in computer systems, applications, and the Internet. We will discuss what PII is and how it is used. There will be information on why Personally Identifiable Information is used and what can happen if it is misused. We will also discuss and look at some sample polices from the government and other large companies that address the use and safeguarding of Personally Identifiable Information. The next section will discuss what you can do to protect your Personally Identifiable Information.
As far as sexual offending is concerned, schools, hospitals, isolated areas are more prone to the sexual crimes. Police should cover such areas during their patrolling process. Moreover, the implementation of such technology in the crime department will only turn out to be a financial and societal disaster. For this management step, there also would need costly and intelligent infrastructure and managerial practices. In general, efforts for the geomapping of offender residences would go in vain due to crime and criminal uncertainty in any region.
Employee’s Security Vulnerabilities and the Affects on Organization’s Information Technology University Maryland University College Employee’s Security Vulnerabilities and the Affects on Organization’s Information Technology Cyber security vulnerabilities and threats are real and constant. Information technology breakthroughs have given our adversaries cheaper and often effective cyber weapons to harm U.S. computer networks and systems (Gen Alexander, 2011). Unfortunately, our adversaries are not our greatest vulnerability to cyber security or cyber space. Cyber security is a branch of computer technology known as information security as applied to computers and networks. The objective of computer security includes protection of information and property from theft, corruption, or natural disaster, while allowing the information and property to remain accessible and productive to its intended users.
This is a map that is individual to the person where they will have routine routes of where they will walk/drive etc. Brantingham theory suggests that offenders are more likely to operate in areas ‘cognitively known’ to them rather than places they don’t, so can explain patterns such as burglary in certain areas. This theory explains where crimes are more likely to happen, but Clarke’s opportunity theory explains why certain victims are chosen and others aren’t. As it depends if the target is accessible so how easy it is to commit the crime such as no security cameras in a store will probably have a high percentage of stolen goods. Another factor is that it depends on how attractive the target is in that how much will the individual gain from committing the crime or how easily the crime can be implemented such as robbing from a bank will have a high risk factor.
Police are often too overwhelmed to protect all citizens from violent crime. 7. Banning guns will create another potentially large source of organized criminal revenue, as a black market for guns will surely develop. 8. Banning guns will take away yet another piece of our liberty, which is one more step to
It would not be a good idea to run out of gas mid-chase. It would be wonderful to also know how to break into cars. That way, if one needs to switch, it would be easy to steal another. Another important tool would be a police scanner. Then it would be possible to hear what the police are saying, and one could know what to expect, so he or she can do something that the police do not completely expect.
The purpose of evidence in courts is to prove or disprove the evidence presented and should be solid enough to convince the jury of reasonable doubt, especially in a criminal trial. In civil cases, the fact is that the evidence is more factual than not and that circumstantial evidence varies upon the type of case that is being tried. Oral and Physical Evidence Physical evidence is one of the most common types of evidence found at a crime scene. Physical evidence consists of the actual physical objects found at the scene. This can range from large items such as damaged cars, broken glass, and smashed doors.