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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

Storage media

The end result of any investigation is to prove whether something exists or took place. In laptops, desktops, mobile devices, and smart devices, data has to be stored somewhere, even if it’s just temporarily. Most of us may be familiar with hard disk drives within laptops, desktops, mobile devices and so on, but we also need to focus on removable and portable storage devices. These include DVDs, portable drives, thumb or flash drives, SD and microSD cards, older media such as CDs and floppies, and countless more.

We should also consider that many portable flash drives come in many interesting shapes and sizes as novelty items, and may not take the usual shape of the ordinary rectangular-shaped drive. Another issue to consider is that many of these storage media devices have changed in size over the years and may be smaller in size, usually as a result of evolving...

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