Embedded systems are ubiquitous in society and can contain information that could be used in criminal cases for example in a serious road traffic accident where the car management systems could provide vital forensic information concerning the engine speed etc. A critical review of a number of methods and procedures for the analysis of embedded systems were compared against a ‘standard’ methodology for use in a Forensic Computing Investigation. A Unified Forensic Methodology (UFM) has been developed that is forensically sound and capable of dealing with the analysis of a wide variety of Embedded Systems
