Computer forensics for dummies / Linda Volonino and Reynaldo Anzaldua.

Introduction -- Pt. I: Digging out and documenting electronic evidence -- Knowing what your digital devices create, capture, and pack away -- until revelation day -- Suiting up for a lawsuit or criminal investigation -- Getting authorized to search and seize -- Documenting and managing the crime scene -- Pt. II: Preparing to crack the case -- Minding and finding the loopholes -- Acquiring and authenticating e-evidence -- Examining e-evidence -- Extracting hidden data -- Pt. III: Doing computer forensics investigations -- E-mail and web forensics -- Data forensics -- Document forensics -- Mobile forensics -- Network forensics -- Investigating x-files: exotic forensics -- Pt. IV: Succeeding in court -- Holding up your end at pretrial -- Winning a case before you go to court -- Standing your ground in court -- Pt. V: The Part of tens -- Ten ways to get qualified and prepped for success -- Ten tactics of an excellent investigator and a dangerous expert witness -- Ten cool tools for computer forensics -- Glossary -- Index.

A guide to the basics of computer forensics covers such topics as acquiring and examining e-evidence, extracting hidden data, filtering data, handling passwords and encrypted data, and exhibiting evidence in court-- source other than Library of Congress .