Forensic examination of digital evidence

1. Read the text and answer the questions:

1. Why are law enforcement agencies, financial institutions, and investment firms incorporating computer forensics into their infrastructure?

2. What should be done to show that the electronic media contains the incriminating evidence?

3. How do guides assist law enforcement agencies and prosecutorial offices in their work?

 

TEXT 1

Developments in the world have shown how simple it is to acquire all sorts of information through the use of computers. This information can be used for a variety of endeavors, and criminal activity is a major one. In an effort to fight this new crime wave, law enforcement agencies, financial institutions, and investment firms are incorporating computer forensics into their infrastructure. From network security breaches to child pornography investigations, the common bridge is the demonstration that the particular electronic media contained the incriminating evidence. Supportive examination procedures and protocols should be in place in order to show that the electronic media contains the incriminating evidence.

To assist law enforcement agencies and prosecutorial offices, a series of guides dealing with digital evidence has been selected to address the complete investigation process. This process expands from the crime scene through analysis and finally into the courtroom. The guides summarize information from a select group of practitioners who are knowledgeable about the subject matter. These groups are more commonly known as technical working groups.

 

2. Give Russian equivivelents to the following English terms:

crime wave, investment firms, computer forensics, network security breaches, child pornography investigations, supportive examination procedures, digital evidence.

 

3. Which sentence, in your opinion, summarizes the text best of all? Give your grounds:

1. The text describes the ways how simple it is to acquire all sorts of information through the use of computers.

2. The text describes the ways how to show that the electronic media contains the incriminating evidence.

3. The text explains why law enforcement agencies are incorporating computer forensics into their infrastructure.

 

2. Complete the sentence:

1. In order to fight computer criminal activity, law enforcement agencies………………

2. In order to show that the electronic media contains the incriminating evidence, ………

3. In order to assist law enforcement agencies, …………….

4. In order to show that the electronic media contains the incriminating evidence, ……….

 

3. Make direct questions instead of indirect ones:

1. They asked if it was simple to acquire all sorts of information through the use of computers.

2. They asked what law enforcement agencies and other institutions were doing in an effort to fight this new crime wave.

3. They asked if supportive examination procedures could show that the electronic media contained the incriminating evidence.

4. They asked what a series of guides dealt with.

5. They wondered if a select group of practitioners consisted of knowledgeable about the subject matter people.

 

4. Guess the word from the text by means of its definition:

1. The act of failing to perform one's agreement, breaking one's word, or otherwise actively violating one's duty to other.

2. Every type of proof legally presented at trial (allowed by the judge) which is intended to convince the judge and/or jury of alleged facts material to the case. It can include oral testimony of witnesses, including experts on technical matters, documents, public records, objects, photographs and depositions (testimony under oath taken before trial).

3. Pictures and/or writings of sexual activity intended solely to excite lascivious feelings of a particularly blatant and aberrational kind, such as acts involving children, animals, orgies, and all types of sexual intercourse.