Digital criminalistics in the conditions of computerization of modern society

In this paper, the authors raise the question of the need to use and improve the methods of digital forensics in the investigation of various kinds of computer crimes. The purposes and features of digital criminalistics are considered, and special operational investigative measures are highlighted, which are related to the specifics of technical equipment and are necessary in the investigation of computer crimes. Almost every science has developed its own understanding of information and explored its various forms and aspects. In the XX century, a new type of information appeared - information circulating in computers, and subsequently in other information technology devices. However, despite the fact that more than 7 decades have passed since the appearance of the first computer (we believe that the British Colossus, launched in 1943, can be considered the first computer), and even more time has passed since the theoretical justification of developments in the field of computers and computer information (the theory was laid by Charles Babbage in 1830), until now there is not even a generally accepted term reflecting the essence of this information, as well as a universal approach to the interpretation of the category in question. It is difficult to imagine the life of modern society without the use of computer technology, smartphones, tablets, as well as access provided by such devices to the virtual space of the Internet, social networks, online stores, services provided remotely. However, all the advantages and advantages of the era of ubiquitous digitalization are accompanied by the emergence of criminal activity in this new environment of human existence. This, in turn, causes the need for an active study of its specifics and the use of the results obtained in law enforcement. Recently, the direction called digital criminology has already taken shape and developed quite firmly as a relatively independent, but organically closely related, based and inseparable from the science of criminology.