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Learn Computer Forensics

By : William Oettinger
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Learn Computer Forensics

By: William Oettinger

Overview of this book

A computer forensics investigator must possess a variety of skills, including the ability to answer legal questions, gather and document evidence, and prepare for an investigation. This book will help you get up and running with using digital forensic tools and techniques to investigate cybercrimes successfully. Starting with an overview of forensics and all the open source and commercial tools needed to get the job done, you'll learn core forensic practices for searching databases and analyzing data over networks, personal devices, and web applications. You'll then learn how to acquire valuable information from different places, such as filesystems, e-mails, browser histories, and search queries, and capture data remotely. As you advance, this book will guide you through implementing forensic techniques on multiple platforms, such as Windows, Linux, and macOS, to demonstrate how to recover valuable information as evidence. Finally, you'll get to grips with presenting your findings efficiently in judicial or administrative proceedings. By the end of this book, you'll 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)
1
Section 1: Acquiring Evidence
6
Section 2: Investigation
12
Section 3: Reporting

Chapter 9: Internet Artifacts

The internet has become a staple in commercial and consumer environments. Digital communication between users is a daily activity. It is uncommon for a household not to have a device connected to the internet in some manner. They give students in elementary school devices to connect to the internet to enhance their education. Email addresses, URLs, social media, and file sharing are all vectors of activities a user can partake of. It is up to the user to decide whether their online activities are going to meet social norms and be accepted, or whether they will cross the line and conduct criminal activity. Your job as a digital forensic investigator will be investigating their activities in the digital realm.

In this chapter, we will be discussing some of the common browsers and social media sites and the artifacts they provide. We will also discuss P2P file sharing tools and some cloud computing services and their artifacts.

We'll be covering...