Investigating modern cars

Car forensic is one of the branches of digital forensics that is recently becoming more and more popular and important. Because of the accelerated growth of technology and its implementation in various industries, modern cars have additional features to raise the level of security, improve the driving experience, and now add the advanced option to connect the car to the internet. The possibilities today are much more advanced, which means that today’s cars can drive autonomously, read the email, respond to messages, automatically receive software updates over the internet that provide new features. Today “smart” cars can even be controlled over the key fob or mobile app. This paper will show common information that can be found in the car; who drove it, how he drove, where and in what state did he drive, information that is related to the car and its mechanics, all the synchronized information etc. It will also explain the extraction process, software used for the extraction, and which difficulties the forensic examiner can encounter during the extraction. Furthermore, the information extracted may prove to be useful in resolving different types of crime, and it can show the importance of digital forensics of cars.