Privacy Defended: Protecting Yourself Online

Collecting Evidence

Your log files are the best evidence you can collect to track attacks against your system and use for prosecution in the off-chance that you get authorities to track, capture, and prosecute an attacker. Yes, that does sound like no one cares about your computer, but the reality of home system compromise is that no government agency cares enough to help you. It's up to you to protect yourself and stop the attackers. In that case, you probably don't have to worry much about collecting evidence of an attack for legal prosecution, but you should know the basics behind collecting evidence like corporations do for prosecution.

Collecting all log traffic and attack signatures is a time-consuming and tedious process. You have to save ...