Vanished In Vista Point A Forensics 411 Mystery

Summer. Seventy-seven glorious days to recover from the government-sanctioned, tax-payer-supported dystopia known as public education. Seventy-seven days to practice boomerang tricks, produce more Forensics 411 webisodes, and pretend he doesn’t care that his only friend is a bloodhound named Chaucer. That’s all Hank wants out of this summer in his coast North Carolina neighborhood. Instead, he gets mistaken for a local celebrity, accidentally makes a (human!) friend, and starts investigating a 35-year-old cold case that may or may not be related to the human skeleton unearthed by Chaucer. But when evidence and people start disappearing, it is up to Hank and Hannah to solve the case before they become the next Vanished in Vista Point.

Hometown heroes. Hank and Hannah were supposed to be starting high school as freakin’ hometown heroes! Every media outlet in the tri-county area said so. After the two solved a thirty-five-year-old cold case, Hannah is poised to ride the tide of new-found celebrity right into the halls of Vista Point High School. Even pessimistic Hank self-talks his way into guarded optimism after his sleuthing brings hundreds of new subscribers to his Forensics 411 web show. Reality quickly sets in when Hannah learns that friendship with Hank is her direct route to downward social mobility. Even cynical Hank is surprised by her swift and stinging rejection. The best hope for their doomed friendship comes when the local boatyard is burgled. The teen detectives reunite to investigate the million-dollar heist while discovering truths about themselves, each other, and the meaning of true friendship.

Hometown heroes. Hank and Hannah were supposed to be starting high school as freakin' hometown heroes! Every media outlet in the tri-county area said so. After the two solved a thirty-five-year-old cold case, Hannah is poised to ride the tide of new-found celebrity right into the halls of Vista Point High School. Even pessimistic Hank self-talks his way into guarded optimism after his sleuthing brings hundreds of new subscribers to his Forensics 411 web show. Reality quickly sets in when Hannah learns that friendship with Hank is her direct route to downward social mobility. Even cynical Hank is surprised by her swift and stinging rejection. The best hope for their doomed friendship comes when the local boatyard is burgled. The teen detectives reunite to investigate the million-dollar heist while discovering truths about themselves, each other, and the meaning of true friendship.

Four decades after Jeannette DePalma's tragic death, authors Jesse P. Pollack and Mark Moran present the definitive account of the shocking Springfield township cold case. As Springfield residents decorated for Halloween in September 1972, the crime rate in the quiet, affluent township was at its lowest in years. That mood was shattered when the body of sixteen-year-old Jeannette DePalma was discovered in the local woods, allegedly surrounded by strange objects. Some feared witchcraft was to blame, while others believed a serial killer was on the loose. Rumors of a police cover up ran rampant, and the case went unsolved - along with the murders of several other young women.

Product Update: A Practical Guide to Digital ForensicsInvestigations (ISBN: 9780789759917), 2nd Edition, is now available. All you need to know to succeed in digital forensics: technical and investigative skills, in one book Complete, practical, and up-to-date Thoroughly covers digital forensics for Windows, Mac, mobile, hardware, and networks Addresses online and lab investigations, documentation, admissibility, and more By Dr. Darren Hayes, founder of Pace University's Code Detectives forensics lab–one of America's “Top 10 Computer Forensics Professors” Perfect for anyone pursuing a digital forensics career or working with examiners Criminals go where the money is. Today, trillions of dollars of assets are digital, and digital crime is growing fast. In response, demand for digital forensics experts is soaring. To succeed in this exciting field, you need strong technical and investigative skills. In this guide, one of the world's leading computer orensics experts teaches you all the skills you'll need. Writing for students and professionals at all levels, Dr. Darren Hayes presents complete best practices for capturing and analyzing evidence, protecting the chain of custody, documenting investigations, and scrupulously adhering to the law, so your evidence can always be used. Hayes introduces today's latest technologies and technical challenges, offering detailed coverage of crucial topics such as mobile forensics, Mac forensics, cyberbullying, and child endangerment. This guide's practical activities and case studies give you hands-on mastery of modern digital forensics tools and techniques. Its many realistic examples reflect the author's extensive and pioneering work as a forensics examiner in both criminal and civil investigations. Understand what computer forensics examiners do, and the types of digital evidence they work with Explore Windows and Mac computers, understand how their features affect evidence gathering, and use free tools to investigate their contents Extract data from diverse storage devices Establish a certified forensics lab and implement good practices for managing and processing evidence Gather data and perform investigations online Capture Internet communications, video, images, and other content Write comprehensive reports that withstand defense objections and enable successful prosecution Follow strict search and surveillance rules to make your evidence admissible Investigate network breaches, including dangerous Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) Retrieve immense amounts of evidence from smartphones, even without seizing them Successfully investigate financial fraud performed with digital devices Use digital photographic evidence, including metadata and social media images

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“This is a must-have work for anybody in information security, digital forensics, or involved with incident handling. As we move away from traditional disk-based analysis into the interconnectivity of the cloud, Sherri and Jonathan have created a framework and roadmap that will act as a seminal work in this developing field.” – Dr. Craig S. Wright (GSE), Asia Pacific Director at Global Institute for Cyber Security + Research. “It’s like a symphony meeting an encyclopedia meeting a spy novel.” –Michael Ford, Corero Network Security On the Internet, every action leaves a mark–in routers, firewalls, web proxies, and within network traffic itself. When a hacker breaks into a bank, or an insider smuggles secrets to a competitor, evidence of the crime is always left behind. Learn to recognize hackers’ tracks and uncover network-based evidence in Network Forensics: Tracking Hackers through Cyberspace.Carve suspicious email attachments from packet captures. Use flow records to track an intruder as he pivots through the network. Analyze a real-world wireless encryption-cracking attack (and then crack the key yourself). Reconstruct a suspect’s web surfing history–and cached web pages, too–from a web proxy. Uncover DNS-tunneled traffic. Dissect the Operation Aurora exploit, caught on the wire. Throughout the text, step-by-step case studies guide you through the analysis of network-based evidence. You can download the evidence files from the authors’ web site (lmgsecurity.com), and follow along to gain hands-on experience. Hackers leave footprints all across the Internet. Can you find their tracks and solve the case? Pick up Network Forensicsand find out.

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