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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788625005

Length 274 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Kali Linux

Concepts

Forensics

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Title Page

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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

Summary

In this chapter, we took the time to cover some of the basics about non-volatile storage media, which stores data even after there is no power supplied to the medium. Non-volatile media includes different types of hard disk drives, such as mechanical and solid-state PATA and SATA drives, flash drives, and memory cards.

Newer storage media devices including SSDs use a special type of flash memory called NAND flash to store data. This flash memory is by far faster and more durable than traditional mechanical drives, as the devices contain no moving parts; however, they are still quite costly for now.

We also had a look at various filesystems associated with various operating systems, and saw that the smallest allocation of data is called a Cluster, in which can reside slack space. Slack space is unused space within a cluster, in which data can be hidden. Data itself has different states and can be at rest, in motion, or in use. Regardless of the state of the data, there always resides...

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