A vender-neutral organization with international focus that provides several tiers of computer security certifications is the ISC(2) (International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium). (more…)
The second type of involvement is where the computer was the target of the crime, such as during a denial of service (DoS) attack against an e-commerce Web site. The last type of involvement, which is often less obvious than the previous two, is when the computer contains information that is incidental to the crime, such as a database containing the “pay and owe” list from drug traffickers. (more…)
Much of the early use of computers was for the storage of financial data. Hence, initial groundwork in the area of computer forensics was done by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigative Division and other federal law enforcement agencies such as the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation). (more…)
