Re: Alternative browsers pose challenge for cybersleuths
- From: Terry Collins <newsonespam-spam@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 19:49:59 +1000
1984 wrote:
In article <lsr332dkko5v16sqgl8j89r87muv6sadts@xxxxxxx>
Winston Smith <bogus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://news.com.com/2100-7348-5845409.html?tag=tb
Alternative browsers pose challenge for cybersleuths
MONTEREY, Calif.--The advent of Firefox and other alternatives to
Internet Explorer means cybercops have to learn new tricks for their
investigations.
Internet Explorer hides nothing from police and other investigators
who examine PCs to discover which sites the user has visited,
according to a class held Wednesday at the annual training meeting of
the High Tech Crime Investigation Association. Investigators know the
location of the IE browser cache, cookie files and history, and they
know how to read those files. Also, popular forensics tools can help
out.
Thanks for the interesting article. Properly depoloyed,
overwriting utilities can cover tracks on these alternative
browsers due to the fact that they write very little, if
anything to the registry in the way that Explorer does.
lol, I suppose those investigators get lost at the dos prompt as well.
Seriously, Firefox leaves just as much crap at IE, except it sure ain't
stored at c:/Program Files/FireFox/Profiles/Fred Nurks, or is it? {:-)
.
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