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Advanced Digital Forensics

Assessment - Presentation

Students need to record the presentation on the Assessment 3 how they have completed and what were the difficulties they faced in the Project.

Section A - Assessment Information

TASK

Task 1: Recovering scrambled bits

For this task I will upload a text file with scrambled bits on the subject interact2 site closer to the assignment due date. You will be required to restore the scrambled bits to their original order and copy the plain text in your assignment.

Task 2: Digital Forensics Report
In this major task you are asked to prepare a digital forensic report for the following scenario after carefully reading the scenario and looking at textbook figures as referred below:

You are investigating a possible intellectual property theft by a new employee of Superior Bicycles, Inc. This employee, Tom Johnson, is the cousin of Jim Shu, an employee who had been terminated. Bob Aspen is an external contractor and investor who gets a strange e-mail from Terry Sadler about Jim Shu's new project (shown in Figure 8-5 of the textbook on p. 350). Bob forwards the e-mail to Chris Robinson (the president of Superior Bicycles) to inquire about any special projects that might need capital investments. Chris forwards the e-mail to the general counsel, Ralph Benson, asking him to look into it. He also forwards it to Bob Swartz, asking him to have IT look for any e-mails with attachments. After a little investigation, Bob Swartz forwards an e-mail IT found to Chris Robinson (shown in Figure 8-6 of the textbook on p. 350).

Chris also found a USB drive on the desk Tom Johnson was assigned to. Your task is to search for and determine whether the drive contains any proprietary Superior Bicycles, Inc. data in the form of any digital photograph as an evidence. In particular, you may look for graphic files such as JPEG on the USB drive hidden with different format. Note for the USB drive image, you need to download the "C08InChp.exe" file from the download section of Chapter 8 on the student companion site of the textbook (Nelson, Phillips, & Steuart, 6/e, 2019).

Your task is to search all possible places data might be hidden (e-mails and USB drive) and recover and present any digital evidence in the report.

RATIONALE
This assessment task will assess the following learning outcome/s:
be able to determine and explain the legal and ethical considerations for investigating and prosecuting digital crimes.
be able to formulate a digital forensics process.
be able to evaluate the technology in digital forensics to detect, prevent and recover from digital crimes.
be able to analyze data on storage media and various file systems.
be able to collect electronic evidence without compromising the original data.
be able to critique and compose technical tactics in digital crimes and assess the steps involved in a digital forensics' investigation.
be able to prepare and defend reports on the results of an investigation.