Computer forensics-digitized science

In today's era `Digital' is a house hold name. As some way or the other technology is part of our lives. Digital media can be seen as the live example of the same. Digitization is in the air. It is peeping in our lives up to so much of extent that even if anything goes wrong we can rebuild the scene and investigate, what went wrong. While investigation we have to check, whether the crime has taken place through some digital media or crime has taken place and now digital media is used to build up the scene of crime and evidences. In this paper, we have discussed the computer forensics life cycle and a very much capable tool to investigate the digital media-Hex Editor.