Chrome forensics with Hindsight

Hindsight is an open source tool for parsing a user’s Chrome browser data and allows you to analyze several different types of web artifacts, including URLs, download history, cache records, bookmarks, preferences, browser extensions, HTTP cookies, and local storage logs in the form of cookies.

The tool is available in the GitHub and pip repositories:

https://github.com/obsidianforensics/hindsight

https://pypi.org/project/pyhindsight/

In this screenshot, we can see the last version of this module:

We can install it with the pip install pyhindsight command.

Once we have installed the module, we can download the ...

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