Internet forensics is an expansion of computer forensics, in that Internet forensics relies more on search and seizure investigations. While computer forensics investigations rely on finding data on computer systems, malicious e-mails, Trojans, denial of service attacks all have other originating sources, and have to be identified by: (1) the actual data hidden inside the code, that is, its signature, and (2) the source of that hostility. Internet forensics examines the data to attempt to find the source of the attack.
Published in Chapter:
Investigating Computer Forensics
Steve Brown (Capella University, USA)
Copyright: © 2008
|Pages: 6
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-881-9.ch080
Abstract
Forensics is the application of sciences that help to seek out, examine, and answer questions about certain characteristics. For example, forensic toxicology helps us understand certain drug interactions, whereas forensics evidence helps us understand evidence that is uncovered at a crime scene. Since computers are now often used in criminal activity, a forensic branch of science has been created termed computer forensics. Unfortunately, unlike other forensics sciences, the complexity, legality, and even the nature of computer forensics may make it more vulnerable to errors.