Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 704 pages
- Published by: Course Technology
- Edition: 3rd Edition December 24, 2007
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1418067334
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1418067335
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Book Dimensions:
9.3 x 7.6 x 1.6 inches
- Weighs: 2.6 pounds
Gary C. Kessler, Associate Professor, Program Director, Champlain College, Forensic Science Communications, Jan 2004
In summary, this book provides an great overview of computer forensics. I highly recommend it to professionals, teachers, and students.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Product Review
"The level of detail for the many topics covered is very good. Complete information is given, including exactly what should be done."
Marsha Powell
Instructor
Tompkins-Cortland Community College
[The text contains] lots of practical information including little details that give life to the procedures. Students are attracted by these glimpses of the real-world.
--Dean Farwood, Heald College
Reader Reviews
This review is from: Guide to Computer Forensics and Investigations (Paperback)
Smoke started coming out of my ears by page 2. The legal info on that page is flat WRONG! - here's a sample: "Until recently, legal professionals could not use digital evidence in court because it was not considered tangible evidence" - where they got that from, I don't know..... we've been using digital evidence in court for 1/2 a century now, and there's a 1960's bank case on mainframe evidence that's still the guideline for laying a foundation for admission of computer evidence. p. 11: "Until 1993, the laws defining computer crimes did not exist. To this day, many have yet to be tested in court." HUH????? The fed.s proposed the first one in 1977, Florida and Arizona passed the first two computer crime statutes in 1978, and the feds finally got theirs through (18 USC 1029 & 1030) in 1986. In another place, they talk about commmercial forensics software only being available recently, which ignores the decades of work done by experts using Norton's DiskEdit (still in use today). They barely mention Dan Mares, who wrote some of the first forensics tools, and is still doing so. They don't really explain what their relationship is with a particular vendor whose software and hardware products are covered in detail.... and their description of the IACIS certification process is out of date. IACIS (an organization to which I belong and from which I received my computer forensics certification) has not endorsed this book.