ANALYSIS OF DIGITAL DEVICES AND TOOLS INVOLVED IN DIGITAL INVESTIGATION

Abstract

The crime, is no longer substantive, it can be executed without the weapons, by manipulating the technology available in the market, these crimes are commonly known as cybercrimes, the term cybercrime can be defined as crimes in which computer is object of crimes (hacking, phishing, spamming) or used as medium to commit the crime, the offenders manipulate these devices to commit the crimes, like accessing personal information, passwords and use them for malicious purposes. The war against these offences can only be fought with the equipment whether in substantive form or in soft, as it is a common phrase that "iron cuts iron", the digital devices when manipulated and compromised are subject to digital investigation and afterwards forensic examination, the footprints that the offenders left behind after commission of offence, can only be traced by using these tools and devices. There are numbers of software and hardware that are being utilized during the investigation of digital offence and in the forensic laboratories of almost every state to authenticate the evidence, collected during the course of digital investigation.