R12 Digital Forensics

What is metadata?

• Data that provides information about other data (images, sounds, videos)

• Data that is encrypted
• Data that is used for analysis
• Data that is not important

What does a forensic officer do?

• A forensic officer collects and analyses evidence from crime scenes to help solve crimes.

• They program computers

• they search crime scenes for blood and DNA.

• They look at computers

What is brute force attack?

• A form of social engineering
• A method used to obtain information through trial-and-error
• A type of encryption method
• A method of preventing cyber attacks

What does a VPN do?

• A VPN encrypts and secures internet connection, and allows users to access a private network from a remote location.
• A VPN is only used for accessing public Wi-Fi networks
• A VPN allows hackers to easily access personal information
• A VPN slows down internet speed and makes browsing difficult

Which of these are an example of metadata?

• size, location, author, date of a picture

• CD, SSD, DVD

• Computer Hard Drive, mouse, keyboard

• How much a picture costs

What are cookies?

• Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored on a user's device by a web browser while the user is browsing a website.
• Cookies are data about data

• Cookies are small baked treats made with flour and sugar
• Cookies are the result of a computer virus

When you delete a file from your computer it is gone forever.

• False
• True

Fake news is...

• Always sensational, spread on the Internet only, not real stories

• Often sensational, not real, spread as a joke, for money or political reasons

• Stories, jokes, information told online for financial purposes

• News which is not true, told by journalists and copied by million other users

What is a MAC address?

• A software application for managing network connections
• A type of computer virus
• A unique identifier assigned to each device on a network

• A code used to encrypt data on a network

The term of Chain of Custody refers to the (a)   documentation associated with the ​ (b)   . This ​ (c)   the paper trail, ​ (d)   , transfer and disposal of the ​ (e)   .

• chronological
• evidence
• records
• custody
• witness
• grooming