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Family Tree Magazine

and

Computer Forensics


Cincinnati State, Evendale Branch

August 12, 2002  at 7:00 p.m


 
Family Tree

David A. Fryxell is editor-in-chief for F&W Publications in Cincinnati. He created and continues to edit Family Tree Magazine and its companion Web site, www.familytreemagazine.com.

 

Family Tree Magazine, which helps readers discover, preserve and celebrate their family history, was named one of the 30 most notable magazine launches of 1999 and has already become America's bestselling family history magazine. He'll talk on using the Internet to get started in genealogy, including spotlighting some of the sites from the magazine's annual 101 Best Web Sites feature, from the new August issue.

 


Computer Forensics
 


As technology, and its many uses, grows so does the potential for that technology to be utilized for criminal activity. Hence, Computer Forensics. This series of classes at Cincinnati State will cover what the definitions of Computer Crime, Digital Evidence, Locard’s Principle, while giving a historical overview of the field in terms of actual use in the field.


Prior criminal cases will be covered along with techniques used by the perpetrators to commit the crimes. Techniques on recovering digital evidence will be discussed as well as the basics for preparing evidence for analysis and presentation in a court of law.


Computer Forensics classes at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College will cover analysis of evidence recovered from different operating systems and the utilization of cross analysis with different Operating Systems (i.e. analysis of a Windows environment with a Linux operating system). In the actual class students will work with an actual scenario and be given the opportunity to apply their skills in a hands scenario; recovering data from a computer, analysis of that data, providing documentation of their investigation, and finally preparing the evidence for presentation in a court of law.

This presentation will cover:
Historical information,
Case History,
Case Analysis,
Technology,
Applications,
Hardware Analysis.

 

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