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Author: Steve Burgess
Company: Burgess Consulting And Forensics
Website: burgessforensics.com
Author Comment / Biography:
Steve Burgess is a freelance technology writer, a practicing computer forensics specialist as the principal of Burgess Forensics, and a contributor to the text, Scientific Evidence in Civil and Criminal Cases, 5th Edition by Moenssens, et al. Mr. Burgess may be reached at http://burgessforensics.com
Mr. Burgess has more than three decades of experience providing data services as a pioneer in the data recovery & forensics industries.
Since 1985, Burgess has performed data recovery, electronic data discovery and forensic analysis on more than 15,000 hard disks and other digital media for firms and individuals in 22 states and several countries. Deposed as expert witness in many cases in California and Texas, testified as expert witness in several Superior Courts in California and Texas. Has run own labs for more than 20 years.
Burgess explains results and arcane computer technology in terms understood by the layperson, judge and jury.
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31. Audio Files Present Challenges for Computer Forensics and E-Discovery
June 10, 2008
Unified communications is the term used for integrating all communications - data and voice - over the Internet. This can include data in its myriad forms such as email, instant messaging data, data generated by business computer applications, faxes, and text messages. But key sources include voice ...
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32. Baby Got Backup!
May 21, 2008
Backup, backup, backups!
If there's one thing I've learned in 20 years and some 12,000 data recoveries, it's that everybody doesn't back up their data sometimes. Computers may be dumb, but they know when you don't have your data backed up — because that's when they break. Don't...
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33. Computer Forensics, Data Recovery And E-Discovery Differ
May 20, 2008
What's the difference between data recovery, computer forensics and e-discovery?
All three fields deal with data, and specifically digital data. It's all about electrons in the form of zeroes and ones. And it's all about taking information that may be hard to find and presenting it in a read...
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34. Computer Forensics - Criminal vs Civil: What's the Difference?
May 07, 2008
Computer Forensics - Criminal vs Civil: What's the Difference?
by Steve Burgess In the field of computer forensics, as in the field of law, procedures in civil cases differ somewhat from those in criminal cases. The collection of data and presentation of evidence may be held to d...
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35. Why Does Digital Forensics Matter to Me?
February 18, 2008
Your data is not private! In the privacy of our studies, offices, libraries, or wherever it is we have our computers, it may seem that we are alone, with no one looking over our shoulders. But every document we draft, every step through the Internet we take, is creating tracks through the di...
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36. Computer Forensics Files: The Case of the Little Dame That Wouldn't
September 23, 2007
Computer Forensics Files: The Case of the Little Dame That Wouldn't Real CSI Cases from Burgess Forensics #14 by Steve Burgess
The stories are true; the names and places have been changed to protect the potentially guilty.
A dame, a rich guy, and an email account: what more do you ...
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37. Data Recovery Myths and Misconceptions
August 28, 2007
Data Recovery Myths and Misconceptions By Steve Burgess, 2007
In the very early 80's, IBM introduced the IBM PC, progenitor of most modern personal computers. That same year, undoubtedly, the first PC hard disk failed and someone was screaming about their data and cursing IBM. Shortly af...
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38. The Five Stages of Data Loss
August 28, 2007
The Five Stages of Data Loss By Steve Burgess, 2007
The computer crashes and what happens? Well, irritation at first. The darn thing is supposed to work, and you've got work to do. After fiddling with it for a bit and getting error message this, error message that — and what did I do tha...
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39. CSI* - Computer Forensics Files: Real Cases from Burgess Forensics #12
August 13, 2007
The Case of the Computer That Got Lost
The stories are true; the names and places have been changed to protect the potentially guilty.
A few years ago, Debby Johnson, an attorney from a large firm based in Kansas City, contacted me about a relatively simple matter. I was to travel to...
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40. What to Use for Backups: Don't Let Your Data Die an Early Death
August 05, 2007
My cousin, Eric Burgess, over at Board Game Babylon had a hard drive crash. It happens! In fact, it eventually will happen to any hard drive left in service long enough. One of my favorite scary statistics is the failure rate of hard disks – it’s 100% - eventually. After I got his many gigabytes of ...
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