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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)

Skype forensics with SkypeLogView

It's always good to have some free pieces of software in your toolkit. There are some free and open source tools for Skype forensics, and one of them is SkypeLogView by NirSoft. You are already familiar with some NirSoft tools, and in this recipe we will show you how to use SkypeLogView for Skype forensicating.

Getting ready

Download SkypeLogView from NirSoft's website (check the See also section for the download link). At the time of writing, the most recent version of the tool is 1.55. Unpack the archive and you are ready to go. You can use the Skype profile folder exported for the previous recipe.

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