CD and DVD forensics.9781597491280 CD and DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. forensics See computer forensics. . Crowley, Paul. Syngress Media, Inc. 2007 292 pages $49.95 Paperback HV8079 This volume outlines the handling, examining, and processing of CD and DVD evidence for computer forensics The investigation of a computer system believed to be involved in cybercrime. Forensic software provides a variety of tools for investigating a suspect PC. Such programs may include a function that copies the entire hard drive to another system for inspection, allowing the original to in both the public and private sectors. Methods of opening CDs and DVDs to find evidence of a crime are explained in detail, and chapters discuss physical characteristics of media, their logical structure, forensic binary images A binary image is a digital image that has only two possible values for each pixel. Binary images are also called bi-level or two-level. (The names black-and-white, B&W , collecting evidence, preparing for disc examination, using CD/DVD Inspector, and reporting findings. Similar to the detail of the rest of the book, the glossary A term used by Microsoft Word and adopted by other word processors for the list of shorthand, keyboard macros created by a particular user. See glossaries in this publication and The Computer Glossary. is quite lengthy. Crowley is founder and lead developer of InfinaDyne, which publishes software for forensic examiners, and the book was originally developed for a class given through InfinaDyne; it uses its product CD/DVD Inspector version 3. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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