Impacts of increasing volume of digital forensic data

A method of operating a glucose test meter is provided. The method can be achieved by storing a plurality of glucose readings to a first memory of the test meter, each of the glucose readings having a time stamp and an order index, the time stamp comprising a date and a time when the glucose reading was performed, the order index indicating an order in which the plurality of glucose readings was saved to the first memory; determining whether successively saved glucose readings have time stamps in chronological order consistent with the order index; and indicating that the date and the time setting in the test meter is incorrect if there are successively saved glucose readings having time stamps inconsistent with the order index.

Method of ensuring date and time on a test meter is accurate

Digital forensics is the process of employing scientific principles and processes to analyze electronically stored information and determine the sequence of events which led to a particular incident. In this digital age, it is important for researchers to become aware of the recent developments in this dynamic field and understand scope for the future. The past decade has witnessed significant technological advancements to aid during a digital investigation. Many methodologies, tools and techniques have found their way into the field designed on forensic principles. Digital forensics has also witnessed many innovative approaches that have been explored to acquire and analyze digital evidence from diverse sources. In this paper, we review the research literature since 2000 and categorize developments in the field into four major categories. In recent years the exponential growth of technological has also brought with it some serious challenges for digital forensic research which is elucidated. Within each category, research is sub-classified into conceptual and practical advancements. We highlight the observations made by previous researchers and summarize the research directions for the future.

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Digital forensic research: current state of the art

A correlation method for establishing provenance of timestamps in digital evidence

With the rapid development and popularity of IT technology, criminals and mischievous computer users are given avenues to commit crimes and malicious activities. As forensic science has long been used to resolve legal disputes regarding different branches of science, computer forensics is developed naturally in the aspects of computer crimes or misbehaviors. In computer forensics, temporal analysis plays a significant role in the reconstruction of events or crimes. Indeed, temporal analysis is one of the attractive areas in computer forensics that caused a large number of researches and studies. It is the purpose of this paper to focus on temporal analysis on NTFS file system and to project intuitional rules on the behavioral characteristics of related digital files

Malcolm W. Stevens

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Unification of relative time frames for digital forensics