Live Forensics for Anti-Forensics Analysis on Private Portable Web Browser

Private Web Browser Forensics: A Case Study of the Epic Privacy Browser

Organised crime, as well as individual criminals, is benefiting from the protection of private browsers provide to those who would carry out illegal activity, such as money laundering, drug trafficking, the online exchange of child-abuse material, etc. The protection afforded to users of the Epic Privacy Browser illustrates these benefits. This browser is currently in use in approximately 180 c...

Browser forensics: adblocker extensions

The purpose of this research is to identify artifacts that are left behind by adblocking extensions. First their mechanics are explored, which includes a source code study of the two most used adblocking extesions, AdBlock and Adblock Plus. Then, samples are gathered by browsing to the top 50 websites of the Netherlands, without and with an adblocker extension installed. The same is done for ru...

Double compressed doctored image anti-forensics with statistical forensics analysis

Forensics, Anti-forensics and Counter Anti-forensics for JPEG Compressed Images

-With the advancement in information technology and image processing software the manipulation of the images has increased considerably from past few decades. Retouching or tampering of the images has been so prevalent that nowadays one can hardly believe their originality. Image authenticity is done using forgery detection techniques. These methods are broadly classified as active and passive....

Uncertainty in Live Forensics

The goal of live digital forensics is to collect crucial evidence that cannot be acquired under the well-known paradigm of post-mortem analysis. Volatile information in computer memory is ephemeral by definition and can be altered as a consequence of the live forensic approach. Every running tool on an investigated system leaves artifacts and changes the system state. This paper focuses on the ...