Chapter 10. Browser and E-mail Investigation

The Internet and World Wide Web is the main way to search and view data and information nowadays. Browsers are the most common tools to do this. So, investigating browsers is important when an analyst tries to investigate a user's activity to profile this user. This isn't an easy task because of the huge number of browsers in the market nowadays and the different artifacts structure in each browser. In this chapter, we will highlight three of the most used browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome.

E-mail is still the main way to communicate among many people in the digital world, especially in the corporate environment. This chapter will cover the different formats of e-mail clients' archives, ...

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