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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

Author (1):

Shiva V. N. Parasram

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

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

Data volatility

In this section, we take a look at why data is lost when power to the volatile memory is lost.

Data can exist as long as the media it is stored on is capable of storing the data. Hard drives (mechanical and solid-state), flash drives, and memory cards are all non-volatile storage media. Although SSDs have and continue to make drastic improvements in data access times, RAM thus far remains the faster type of memory, typically referred to only as memory, inside devices.

RAM, however, is volatile memory. Unlike non-volatile memory found in hard drives and flash drives, data stored in RAM is kept there temporarily, only for as long as there is an electrical current being provided to the chips. There are two types of RAM that we need to be aware of: Static RAM (SRAM) and Dynamic RAM (DRAM).

SRAM is superior to DRAM, but is far more costly than DRAM because of the...

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