Computer Forensic Classes

WE WATCH IT ON TELEVISION, AND HEAR ABOUT THE WAYS OUR E-MAILS AND MOVEMENTS ON THE WEB CAN BE TR...  More »

WE WATCH IT ON TELEVISION, AND HEAR ABOUT THE WAYS OUR E-MAILS AND MOVEMENTS ON THE WEB CAN BE TRACKED AND PLOTTED. AND FOR SOME BUSINESSES AND AGENCIES IT COMES DOWN TO SAFETY AND PROTECTION. THATS WHAT THREE PEOPLE FROM Fargo SCHOOLS FOUND AFTER GRADUATING FROM A COMPUTER FORENSICS CLASS. HERE'S MORE FROM REPORTER KEVIN WALLEVAND. THEY MAKE IT LOOK EASY IN HOLLYWOOD. GIL, NICK AND BRASS USING COMPUTERS TO CRACK THE CODE AND SOLVE A CRIME. NAT OF LOWELL NOW, AFTER DAYS OF BEING STUDENTS, SOME FARGO SCHOOL OFFICIALS CAN CALL THEMSELVES GRADUATES OF YET ANOTHER CLASS......COMPUTER FORENSICS. (Lowell Wolff\FARGO SCHOOL DISTRICT) IN TODAY'S ENVIRONMENT, SO MUCH OF THE INFO IS ELECTRONIC, AND SO TO BE SAFE AND SECURE WE NEED TO UP OUR SKILLS IN ORDER TO ANALYZE WHAT IS GOING ON OUT THERE. LOWELL WOLFF ALONG WITH BILL WESTRICK OF THE SCHOOL'S I-T UNIT, JUST FINISHED THE ON LINE COURSE. ONE OF OUR ASSIGNMENTS WAS MAILED TO US...A DRIVE AND THE DRIVE APPEARS TO BE BLAND AND AS YOU STARTED DIGGING INTO IT, THE ASSIGNMENT WAS TO FIND COMPUTER USE VIOLATIONS OR CRIMINAL ACTIVITY, AND WE FOUND THREE FILES OF EMBEZZLEMENT, CHILD PORN AND ADULT PORN. (KEVIN WALLEVAND\REPORTING) ten thousand students in the district and 15-hundred staff, and many of them using school computers and e-mails, it is hoped this computer forensic program will allow school admins to retrieve and pinpoint any wrongdoing from the inside and out. LowellMore important that catching people who violate policy, it is to keep ourselves safe from those trying to violate our system and network space. IF THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS SUSPECTS OR FINDS CRIMINAL ACTIVITY ON LINE, FARGO POLICE AND ITS COMPUTER FORENSIC EXPERTS ALONG WITH DETECTIVE COME ON BOARD. HOW WE ALL COMMUNICATE HAS CHANGED, AND WITH IT, HOW ABUSE OF THAT TECHNOLOGY IS STOPPED. KEVIN WALLEVAND.> > INVESTIGATORS ACROSS THE NATION HAVE USED COMPUTER FORENSICS TO RETRIEVE E-MAILS FROM STUDENTS WHO HAVE THREATENED OR CARRIED OUT SCHOOL VIOLENCE.  « Less