With a rapid rise in technology, an increase in digital crimes has also been observed. The sharp and evil minds come up with new and better ways to cheat people and deprive them of their hard earned money and private information. However, thieves also leaves their traces behind and even in this era of digital crime, people who use devices for cheating and stealing, leave behind their footprints and markings that are used by technical geniuses to trace them. The virtual or digital traces can be file fragments, activity logs, time stamps, Meta data and many other things that digital forensic experts can use for catching them. Digital forensics help the law and makes it easy for the law enforcement agencies to catch the culprits in various ways.
It can help to identify what was stolen and trace whether the information was copied or distributed. While in most cases, the data is stolen to be used for blackmail or extortion, in many case, the data is purposefully destroyed or damaged to harm the targets. The main goal of Los Angeles digital forensics is to extract data from the electronic evidence, process it into actionable intelligence and present the findings for prosecution. It makes sure that the data is in readable or intelligible form so that it can be viewed by the common people and the court and rightly used to punish the criminals. Forensic teams work hard and use the advanced technology to analyze, inspect, identify, and preserve the digital evidence. They use it to investigate crimes related to technology. Whether data has been compromised by a cyberattack or files encrypted by ransomware, data forensic experts can help determine how the attack took place, what the damages were, and in many cases, who perpetrated it.