There are many email forensic tools which can assist within the study of source and content of e-mail message so that an attack or the malicious intent of the intrusions could also be investigated. These tools while providing easy to use browser format, automated reports, and other features, help to spot the origin and destination of the message, trace the trail traversed by the message; identify spam and phishing networks, etc. This section introduces a …
Anti-Forensics Techniques: Steganography, the art of hidden writing, has been in use for centuries. It involves embedding a hidden message in some transport or carrier medium and mathematicians, military personnel, and scientists have been using it. They all engage in changing the common language and transferring it through secret and hidden communication. The history of steganography dates back to the Egyptian civilization. Today, with the emergence of the Internet and multimedia, the use of steganography …
