Using technology to support investigations in the electronic age: tracking hackers to large scale international computer fraud
Steve McFall · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1994
With the increase in business automation and the widespread availability and low cost of computer systems, law enforcement agencies have seen a corresponding increase in criminal acts involving computers. The examination of computer evidence is a new field of forensic science with numerous opportunities for research and development. Research is needed to develop new software utilities to examine computer storage media, expert systems capable of finding criminal activity in large amounts of data, and to find methods of recovering data from chemically and physically damaged computer storage media. In addition, defeating encryption and password protection of computer files is also a topic requiring more research and development.