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Practical Digital Forensics

You're reading from   Practical Digital Forensics Get started with the art and science of digital forensics with this practical, hands-on guide!

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785887109
Length 372 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Richard Boddington Richard Boddington
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Preface 1. The Role of Digital Forensics and Its Environment 2. Hardware and Software Environments FREE CHAPTER 3. The Nature and Special Properties of Digital Evidence 4. Recovering and Preserving Digital Evidence 5. The Need for Enhanced Forensic Tools 6. Selecting and Analyzing Digital Evidence 7. Windows and Other Operating Systems as Sources of Evidence 8. Examining Browsers, E-mails, Messaging Systems, and Mobile Phones 9. Validating the Evidence 10. Empowering Practitioners and Other Stakeholders Index

Chapter 7. Windows and Other Operating Systems as Sources of Evidence

The majority of laptop, desktop, and network-based computers use Windows operating systems, and this chapter will describe this in some detail and provide a brief description of other operating systems that are commonly examined. The chapter will provide you with an understanding of the complexity and nature of information processed on computers that assists forensic examinations and facilitates the recreation of key events relating to the presence of digital evidence stored in a range of operating systems.

The chapter will look at:

  • The Windows Registry and system files and logs as a resource of digital evidence
  • Apple and other operating system structures
  • Remote-access and malware attacks and the prevalence and challenge posed by anti-forensics to the recovery of digital evidence
  • A case study relating to Windows Registry analysis
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