COS/PSA 413 Day 17
Agenda Lab 8 write-up grades –3 B’s, 1 C and 1 F –Answer the Questions!!! Capstone progress report 2 overdue Today we will be discussing investigations –Chap 11 in 1e, Chap 13 in 2e Lab 10 in OMS tomorrow –11-1, 11-2, 11-3, 11-4,11-6 –Make sure you know what is you will be doing before you get to the lab –You will need your maine.edu account info User/password
Investigations Chapter 11
Learning Objectives Understand Internet Fundamentals Explore the Roles of the Client and Server in E- mail Identify and Investigate Crimes and Violations Understand Servers Use Specialized Computer Forensic Tools
Understand Internet Fundamentals Internet Service Provider (ISP) – Provides a service or membership that allows you to access the information available on the Internet. Dialup Connection – A connecting device to a network via modem or a public telephone network. Dialup access acts just like a phone connection, except that the two connecting parties are computers instead of people.
Understand Internet Fundamentals
Code – A group of specialized characters combined in a sequence to provide instructions to a program on how to perform a specific action. Web Browser – A software program used to locate and display web pages. HTML – The authoring language used to create documents on the World Wide Web. It defines the structure and layout of a Web document by using a variety of tags and attributes.
Understand Internet Fundamentals
Domain Name Service (DNS) – An Internet service that translates domain names to IP addresses. Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) – A standard for worldwide communications that defines a networking framework for implementing protocols in seven layers.
Understand Internet Fundamentals Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) – A protocol used for sending messages between servers. Post Office Protocol Version 3 (POP3) – A protocol used to retrieve messages from an server. Internet Message Access Protocol version 4 (IMAP) – A protocol for retrieving messages. Supports more features than POP3.
Explore the Roles of the Client and Server in
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Explore the Roles of the Client and Server in Universal Naming Convention (UNC) – A PC format that specifies the location of resources on a local area network. It uses the following format: \\servername\shared\\servername\shared resource-pathname.
Identify and Investigate Crimes and Violations To Copy an Message from Outlook 1.Insert formatted floppy disk into the drive. 2.Start Outlook. 3.Making sure the folders list is open, click the folder that contains the file you would like to copy. 4.Resize the Outlook window so that you can see the message you want to copy and the icon for the floppy disk. 5.Click and drag the message from Outlook to the floppy disk drive.
Identify and Investigate Crimes and Violations
Investigation Process -Copy the you would like to investigate. -Print the message. -View the file header. -Examine the file header and body of the . -Open any attachments. -Trace the , record all IP Addresses. -Document all findings.
Identify and Investigate Crimes and Violations Router – A network device that connects a number of local area networks together. Routers use the IP address to determine the destination of a packet.
Identify and Investigate Crimes and Violations
Understand Servers Server – A computer that is running an operating system such as UNIX or Windows 2000 that is loaded with software to manage the transmission and holding of messages.
Understand Servers
GroupWise – The Novell server software; a database server like Microsoft Exchange and UNIX Sendmail.
Using Specialized Forensic Tools Tools That Can Investigate Messages -EnCase -FTK -FINAL -Sawmill-GroupWise -Audimation for Logging
Using Specialized Forensic Tools
Chapter Summary - Because programs employ some protocols used with the internet to exchange messages, you should understand the fundamentals of the Internet to realize how e- mail works. -You can send and receive via the Internet and local area network. Client computers access servers to receive messages. -Investigating crimes or policy violations with e- mail is similar to other computer crimes and abuses.
Chapter Summary -Once you have determined that a crime has been committed using , first access the victims computer to recover any evidence, then copy the messages from the victims computer. -Be sure to copy and print any messages that will be used in the investigation. -Examine the header, trace the IP address from the sending computer, and record the date and time stamps of the message.
Chapter Summary -To investigate , you should know how an server records and handles messages. servers are databases of user information and messages. All servers contain a log file which can tell valuable information when investigating a crime. -For many investigations, you can rely on the message files, headers, and server log files to investigate crimes.