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Digital Forensics with Kali Linux

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Digital Forensics with Kali Linux

Overview of this book

Kali Linux is a Linux-based distribution used mainly for penetration testing and digital forensics. It has a wide range of tools to help in forensics investigations and incident response mechanisms. You will start by understanding the fundamentals of digital forensics and setting up your Kali Linux environment to perform different investigation practices. The book will delve into the realm of operating systems and the various formats for file storage, including secret hiding places unseen by the end user or even the operating system. The book will also teach you to create forensic images of data and maintain integrity using hashing tools. Next, you will also master some advanced topics such as autopsies and acquiring investigation data from the network, operating system memory, and so on. The book introduces you to powerful tools that will take your forensic abilities and investigations to a professional level, catering for all aspects of full digital forensic investigations from hashing to reporting. By the end of this book, you will have had hands-on experience in implementing all the pillars of digital forensics—acquisition, extraction, analysis, and presentation using Kali Linux tools.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Disclaimer
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
10
Revealing Evidence Using DFF

Summary


In this chapter, we took the time to cover some of the basics about non-volatile storage media, which stores data even after there is no power supplied to the medium. Non-volatile media includes different types of hard disk drives, such as mechanical and solid-state PATA and SATA drives, flash drives, and memory cards.

Newer storage media devices including SSDs use a special type of flash memory called NAND flash to store data. This flash memory is by far faster and more durable than traditional mechanical drives, as the devices contain no moving parts; however, they are still quite costly for now.

We also had a look at various filesystems associated with various operating systems, and saw that the smallest allocation of data is called a Cluster, in which can reside slack space. Slack space is unused space within a cluster, in which data can be hidden. Data itself has different states and can be at rest, in motion, or in use. Regardless of the state of the data, there always resides...