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Windows Forensics Cookbook

By : Scar de Courcier, Oleg Skulkin
Book Image

Windows Forensics Cookbook

By: Scar de Courcier, Oleg Skulkin

Overview of this book

Windows Forensics Cookbook provides recipes to overcome forensic challenges and helps you carry out effective investigations easily on a Windows platform. You will begin with a refresher on digital forensics and evidence acquisition, which will help you to understand the challenges faced while acquiring evidence from Windows systems. Next you will learn to acquire Windows memory data and analyze Windows systems with modern forensic tools. We also cover some more in-depth elements of forensic analysis, such as how to analyze data from Windows system artifacts, parse data from the most commonly-used web browsers and email services, and effectively report on digital forensic investigations. You will see how Windows 10 is different from previous versions and how you can overcome the specific challenges it brings. Finally, you will learn to troubleshoot issues that arise while performing digital forensic investigations. By the end of the book, you will be able to carry out forensics investigations efficiently.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Troubleshooting in free and open source tools

Of course, free and open source tools don't have customer support services, but they have developers. Often, you can contact the developer directly and ask your questions, or even share (if possible) the data source problems you have with them. This helps developers to improve their tools and help the community.

Some tools, such as The Sleuth Kit and Autopsy for example, have mailing lists: you can ask your question and the developer or active users will answer it, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 12.2. Subscribing to the sleuthkit-users list