Investigating Digital Crimes using Python
Gajendra Deshpande
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Language: English Topic: Security Python level: Beginner VideoA recent study by CheckPoint Research has recorded over 1,50,000 cyber-attacks every week during the COVID-19 pandemic. There has been an increase of 30% in cyber-attacks compared to previous weeks. The pandemic has been the main reason for job loss and pay cuts of people and has led to an increase in cybercrimes. Examples of cyber-attacks include phishing, ransomware, fake news, fake medicine, extortion, and insider frauds. Cyber forensics is a field that deals with the investigation of digital crimes by analyzing, examining, identifying, and recovering digital evidence from electronic devices and producing them in the court of law. Python has a great collection of built-in modules for digital forensics tasks. The talk begins with an introduction to digital crimes, digital forensics, the process of investigation, and the collection of evidence. Next, I will discuss report creation using CSV and Excel reports, investigation of acquisition media using the pyscreenshot module. Finally, I will conclude the talk with the investigation of embedded metadata, emails, and log files. In this talk, I will cover mutagen, mailbox, tqdm, argparser, yara python modules, and utilities which are used for the above-mentioned tasks.
In this talk, the audience will learn the procedure to be followed while investigating digital crimes and most importantly how to develop their own digital forensic tools using Python. I believe that the attendees will learn about the new exciting field where there are lots of opportunities with respect to their careers. Basic understanding of Python language or any other scripting language will be helpful in understanding the concepts.
Outline 1. Introduction to digital crimes, digital forensics, the process of investigation, and collection of evidence. [05 Minutes] 2. Report creation using CSV and Excel reports [04 Minutes] 3. Investigation of acquisition media using the pyscreenshot module [03 Minutes] 4. Investigation of embedded metadata [05 Minutes] 5. Investigation of emails [05 Minutes] 6. Investigation of log files [05 Minutes] 7. Conclusion and Questions [03 Minutes]