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Learn Computer Forensics – 2nd edition - Second Edition

By : William Oettinger
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Learn Computer Forensics – 2nd edition - Second Edition

By: William Oettinger

Overview of this book

Computer Forensics, being a broad topic, involves a variety of skills which will involve seizing electronic evidence, acquiring data from electronic evidence, data analysis, and finally developing a forensic report. This book will help you to build up the skills you need to work in a highly technical environment. This book's ideal goal is to get you up and running with forensics tools and techniques to successfully investigate crime and corporate misconduct. You will discover ways to collect personal information about an individual from online sources. You will also learn how criminal investigations are performed online while preserving data such as e-mails, images, and videos that may be important to a case. You will further explore networking and understand Network Topologies, IP Addressing, and Network Devices. Finally, you will how to write a proper forensic report, the most exciting portion of the forensic exam process. By the end of this book, you will have developed a clear understanding of how to acquire, analyze, and present digital evidence, like a proficient computer forensics investigator.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Index

Understanding WebMail analysis

Web-based email has become increasingly popular as we transition from the twentieth to the twenty-first century. It’s easy to access, requires little to no configuration from the user, and is available from any computer. In the simplest terms, WebMail is just another internet artifact for conducting browser analysis (we will cover internet artifacts in Chapter 9, Internet Artifacts).

The service provider maintains the user’s email and may provide additional services, such as address books and calendars. Users can use a host-based client to access web-based email. Still, I have found that those users are in the minority when content is hosted by the service provider, which provides additional obstacles to the digital forensic investigator. The only artifacts relating to the content may be in the user’s internet history, which may be fragmented. If a digital forensic investigator wants to access the content of a user’s web...