Sufficiency of Windows Event log as Evidence in Digital Forensics2

The prevalence of computer and the internet has brought forth the increasing spate of cybercrime activities; hence the need for evidence to attribute a crime to a suspect. The research therefore, centres on evidence, the legal standards applied to digital evidence presented in court and the main sources of evidence in the Windows operating system, such as the Registry, slack space and the Windows event log. In order to achieve the main aim of this research, cybercrime activities such as automated password guessing attack and hacking was emulated on to a Windows operating system within a virtual network environment set up using VMware workstation. After the attack the event logs on the victim system was analysed and assessed for its admissibility (evidence must conform to certain legal rules), and weight (evidence must convince the court that the accused committed the crime).