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Windows Forensics Cookbook

By : Scar de Courcier, Oleg Skulkin
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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)

Recycle Bin content analysis with EnCase Forensic

EnCase is a well-known and court-accepted commercial digital forensics tool developed by Guidance Software. It is used by examiners from all over the world, both in law enforcement agencies and in the private sector. It supports the whole investigation life cycle, from collecting to reporting. What's more, it has a built-in scripting language - EnScript - so users can write their own scripts to solve digital forensic problems. A lot of useful EnScripts are available for free at EnCase App Central. In this recipe, we will show you how to use this powerful tool to examine Windows Recycle Bin contents.

Getting ready

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