Atlanta Chapter Meeting - June

The Atlanta ASDFED Chapter would like to invite you to attend their upcoming meeting.  The meetings are open to the general public.

Topic:  Moving Digital Evidence the Right Way

Moving evidence sounds like a simple and easy task; however, if you don’t do it correctly, you could create problems for yourself and your clients.  The windows copy command does not validate that data has been copied correctly.  This means it could appear to copy and leave only corrupted data at the destination.  Also using windows copy will change a file's creation and last access date and time stamp in most cases.  All of these are bad when it comes to handling digital evidence.  This presentation will cover a FREE utility, which you can use to move evidence from one location to the next, create a MD5 or SHA hash and a log file.  Come join us to learn how to preserve your digital evidence.

Speaker:  Danny Mares

Throughout his 27-year law enforcement career, Dan maintained an interest in computer programming, forensic software development. He began writing software programs to facilitate the analysis of seized electronic data in 1986 and developed the Maresware suite of investigative software programs. Dan provides ongoing technical and programming assistance to state and federal agencies in computer-related cases. Dan assisted in the development of Seized Computer Evidence Recovery Specialist and Computer Investigation in an Automated Environment courses at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Georgia, and the Basic and Advanced Data Recovery Classes at the National White Collar Crime Center.