Which of the following is found within the unique instance ID key and helps investigators to map the entry from USBSTOR key to the MountedDevices key?
Jim’s company regularly performs backups of their critical servers. But the company can’t afford to send backup tapes to an off-site vendor for long term storage and archiving. Instead Jim’s company keeps the backup tapes in a safe in the office. Jim’s company is audited each year, and the results from this year’s audit show a risk because backup tapes aren’t stored off-site. The Manager of Information Technology has a plan to take the backup tapes home with him and wants to know what two things he can do to secure the backup tapes while in transit?
You are working as an independent computer forensics investigator and received a call from a systems administrator for a local school system requesting your assistance. One of the students at the local high school is suspected of downloading inappropriate images from the Internet to a PC in the Computer Lab. When you arrive at the school, the systems administrator hands you a hard drive and tells you that he made a “simple backup copy” of the hard drive in the PC and put it on this drive and requests that you examine the drive for evidence of the suspected images. You inform him that a “simple backup copy” will not provide deleted files or recover file fragments. What type of copy do you need to make to ensure that the evidence found is complete and admissible in future proceeding?
Smith, an employee of a reputed forensic investigation firm, has been hired by a private organization to investigate a laptop that is suspected to be involved in the hacking of the organization’s DC server. Smith wants to find all the values typed into the Run box in the Start menu. Which of the following registry keys will Smith check to find the above information?
What is the investigator trying to analyze if the system gives the following image as output?
Jacob is a computer forensics investigator with over 10 years of experience in investigations and has written over 50 articles on computer forensics. He has been called upon as a qualified witness to testify the accuracy and integrity of the technical log files gathered in an investigation into computer fraud. What is the term used for Jacob’s testimony in this case?
Which of the following application password cracking tool can discover all password-protected items on a computer and decrypts them?
TESTED 31 Jan 2025
