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Digital Forensics with Kali Linux

You're reading from   Digital Forensics with Kali Linux Perform data acquisition, digital investigation, and threat analysis using Kali Linux tools

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788625005
Length 274 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Shiva V. N. Parasram Shiva V. N. Parasram
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Preface 1. Introduction to Digital Forensics FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing Kali Linux 3. Understanding Filesystems and Storage Media 4. Incident Response and Data Acquisition 5. Evidence Acquisition and Preservation with DC3DD and Guymager 6. File Recovery and Data Carving with Foremost, Scalpel, and Bulk Extractor 7. Memory Forensics with Volatility 8. Autopsy – The Sleuth Kit 9. Network and Internet Capture Analysis with Xplico 10. Revealing Evidence Using DFF

Installing DFF

To carry out investigations using DFF, we first require the Kali Linux 2016.1 ISO image. I've chosen to use the 64-bit version and also have it running as a virtual host within VirtualBox.

The Kali Linux 2016.1 ISO image can be downloaded from the https://www.kali.org/downloads/:

  1. Once Kali 2016.1 is installed as a virtual host, we can use the uname -a command to view the version details:
  1. To begin installing DFF, we first need to update the sources.list with the repository used in Kali Sana. Although we browsed directly to the sources.list file in the previous chapter, here are two additional ways in which we can also perform this task using the Terminal.

In a new Terminal, we can type the following:

echo "deb http://old.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib" >
/etc/apt/sources.list

Alternatively, we can instead use the second method by...

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