Term Paper: Digital Crime and Digital Terrorism

Patricia Saylor

Digital Crime and Digital Terrorism

Strayer University

Masudur Chowdhory

June 9, 2015

There are several reasons that investigation and forensics is relevant with digital crime and terrorism. First reason is with the uncertainty as investigators may face situations where evidences and information about the compromised system may be missing, difficult to retrieve, or corrupted by the person committing the crime. The field of digital forensics has become increasingly more important over the last few years as both the computer and the cellular market has grown.

Digital forensics describes the process of going into a technological device such as a computer or a cellphone in order to monitor the activity on...