Email Forensics – Investigation Techniques
Email is just one portion of the global internet that has become a daily resource in the consumer and corporate realms. It has become one of the primary communication tools used by nearly every citizen of the industrialized world. Now that email has become part of everyone’s everyday lives, criminals will use this vector to commit crimes and collaborate with their co-conspirators.
It can be difficult for the digital forensic investigator to trace an email back to the source from its destination. Therefore, the digital forensic investigator will have to be educated in the methods and delivery systems of the email life cycle. When the digital forensic investigator successfully identifies the source of the email, that will lead to additional forensic investigations of the digital evidence that was found at the source.
Where can you find digital evidence relating to an email investigation? The local machine will have the...
