Chapter 7

Internet Artifacts

Information in this Chapter

Introduction

It can be argued that nothing demonstrates the concept of evidence dynamics better than Internet artifacts. On a modern end-user computer system, the bulk of the user’s interaction with the system will likely be related to Internet communication of some sort. Every click of a link, every bookmark, and every search query can leave telltale traces on the user’s system. This chapter examines the application-specific artifacts created by Web browsers and then moves on to delve into analysis of the contents of local mailbox formats.

Browser Artifacts

If the bulk of a computer user’s time is spent on the Internet, then it’s like that nearly all ...

Get Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.