MN624 Digital Forensic Assignment

Your task is to research and write a report on a recent digital forensics crime that requires digital forensics investigation. Examples of such crimes include malware, embezzlement, extortion, cyberbullying, murder, kidnap, drug trafficking, intellectual property theft, espionage, employment misconduct, fraud, forgeries, inappropriate email, and internet use in the workplace.

 In your report, you must address the necessary steps to ensure that digital evidence is collected, preserved, imaged, and can be examined. Your report should be 500 – 1000 words and should include the following sections: 

1. Provide a detailed description of the
   1. Summary of the offence being
   2. Report who was involved in the crime, e., who was the criminal(s), the suspect(s) and the victim(s)?
   3. Identify and report what type of evidence was used in the criminal investigation of the case;
   4. Explain two acquisition methods that you should use in this case
   5. Discuss some options that can be used for preserving the
2. Explain the importance of a chain of custody for digital forensic Be sure to explain the process of documenting, collecting and storing evidence from the crime scene you're investigating (e.g. a laptop computer). Describe the consequences of not following a proper chain of custody.
3. Discuss the procedures for the preservation of evidence; be sure to connect this work with the chain of Describe consequences of not carefully preserving evidence.
4. List and analyse the tools you will need in your investigation and the reason you chose those Support this analysis with relevant research. Critically evaluate the forensic tool(s) and discuss their capacity in various categories of functions, including acquisition, validation, and verification, extraction, reconstruction, and reporting.