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Digital Forensics with Kali Linux

You're reading from   Digital Forensics with Kali Linux Perform data acquisition, data recovery, network forensics, and malware analysis with Kali Linux 2019.x

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838640804
Length 334 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Shiva V. N. Parasram Shiva V. N. Parasram
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Kali Linux – Not Just for Penetration Testing
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Digital Forensics FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Installing Kali Linux 4. Section 2: Forensic Fundamentals and Best Practices
5. Chapter 3: Understanding Filesystems and Storage Media 6. Chapter 4: Incident Response and Data Acquisition 7. Section 3: Forensic Tools in Kali Linux
8. Chapter 5: Evidence Acquisition and Preservation with dc3dd and Guymager 9. Chapter 6: File Recovery and Data Carving with foremost, Scalpel, and bulk_extractor 10. Chapter 7: Memory Forensics with Volatility 11. Chapter 8: Artifact Analysis 12. Section 4: Automated Digital Forensic Suites
13. Chapter 9: Autopsy 14. Chapter 10: Analysis with Xplico 15. Chapter 11: Network Analysis 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Downloading Kali Linux

For safety and security reasons, it is always best to download Kali Linux directly from the website of its creators, Offensive Security. The main reason for this is that the downloads of Kali Linux on other pages could possibly be fake, or worse, infected with malware such as Trojans, rootkits, and even ransomware. Offensive Security has also included hashes of all versions of Kali Linux downloads on their site, allowing users to compare the hash of their downloaded version of Kali Linux with what was generated and posted by Offensive Security on their website (https://www.kali.org). Once there, you can click on the downloads link, or go directly to the Kali Linux downloads page by visiting https://www.kali.org/downloads/.

Once on the downloads page, we can see nine instances of Kali Linux available for download, each with specific category information:

  • Image Name: Specifies the name of the download as well as whether the operating system is 32-bit...
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