Chapter 13

Cloud Storage Forensics

Analysis of Data Remnants on SpiderOak, JustCloud, and pCloud

S.H. Mohtasebi*; A. Dehghantanha; K.-K.R. Choo,§    * Shabakeh Gostar Ltd. Co., Tehran, Iran University of Salford, Salford, United Kingdom University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States§ University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia

Abstract

Storage as a Service (STaaS) cloud platform benefits such as getting access to data anywhere, anytime, on a wide range of devices made them very popular among businesses and individuals. As such forensics investigators are increasingly facing cases that involve investigation of STaaS platforms. Therefore it is essential for cyber investigators to know how to collect, preserve, ...

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