Medico-Legal Update
  • Year: 2012
  • Volume: 12
  • Issue: 2

Digital Forensics, Hacking and its role in Crime Investigations

  • Author:
  • Mohit Gupta1, Jyoti Barwa2, Manish Kumath3, Varsha Kharab4, Atul Gupta1, Mamta Panwar5
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 98 to 100

1Senior Resident, Department of Forensic Medicine, MMC and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi - 29

2Junior Resident, Department of Forensic Medicine, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi-2

3Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, MMC and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi - 29

4Senior Resident, Department of Anaesthesia, Pt Madan Mohan Malviya Hospital, New Delhi

5Assistant Professor, Department of Anaesthesia, VMMC and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi - 29

Online published on 17 November, 2012.

Abstract

The growing role of computers in various fields has not left legal medicine untouched. Where it has served to be a boon for the professionals, it has also led to the increasing fears regarding the manipulation and alteration of evidences from the cyber world. This paper deals with the importance of digital forensics in administration of justice and the problems that may be faced due to hacking.

Keywords

Digital Forensics, Hacking