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William Donaldson

Example Forensics Case: Fraud

Uplink Inc., a local ISP, has encountered a case of possible fraud in which an unauthorized individual accessed Uplink Inc.’s system using multiple user IDs; in their action, multiple customer accounts have been breached, and the main website has been defaced. Due to Uplink Inc.’s reliance on technology […]

Flavors of Linux

Explain your experiences with the different “flavors” of Linux. What are the similarities and differences between them?  Similar to the many editions of Windows, Linux is comprised of numerous distributions- yet unlike Windows, each distribution is an entirely different animal (not just an updated version, such as with […]

USB/SSD vs. HDD Overwrites

How are USB / Solid State Drives different from standard hard drives in how data is overwritten?             Solid-state drives (SSDs) are high-performance plug-and-play devices that feature no moving parts and offer faster speeds due to containing their own CPUs to manage data storage. SSDs are easy […]