Techniques in Computer Forensics: A Recovery Perspective

Computer forensics has recently gained significant popularity with many local lawenforcement agencies. It is currently employed in fraud, theft, drug enforcementand almost every other enforcement activity. The research paper includes thetypes of attempts to destroy or tamper the files by the culprits and unleashesvarious recovery techniques, and their significance in different situations fromthose attempts, which destroy files or inflict physical damage to the computer.The paper also presents the nature and immediate need of enhancing theexisting automated forensics tools. The paper gives a quick glance of variousmethods used by culprits to destroy the information in the electronic storagemedia and their corresponding forensic approach done by the computer forensicexperts in the perspective of recovery.