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Mozilla Firefox Browsing Artifacts in 3 Different Anti-forensics Modes

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There are several techniques which can assist a user to avoid leaving traces (Digital Evidence) of Internet activity so that one can frustrate forensic investigation. In this paper we examined three different usage scenarios of Internet browsing using Mozilla Firefox. These different usage scenarios were a sandbox environment, browsing with portable tools, and browsing with virtual box. We tried to find the artifacts created and left by web browsing activities in each of these usage scenarios. In our experiments, we performed identical web browsing activity for each of the three scenarios and investigated whether the traces were left behind.

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  1. School of Computer and Information Science, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

    Deepak Gupta

  2. Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (Established by Reserve Bank of India), Hyderabad, India

    Babu M. Mehtre

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  1. School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Pavel Gladyshev

  2. College of Technical Innovation, Zayed University, Dubai, Utd.Arab.Emir.

    Andrew Marrington

  3. Tagliatela College of Engineering, University of New Haven, West Haven, USA

    Ibrahim Baggili

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Gupta, D., Mehtre, B.M. (2014). Mozilla Firefox Browsing Artifacts in 3 Different Anti-forensics Modes. In: Gladyshev, P., Marrington, A., Baggili, I. (eds) Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime. ICDF2C 2013. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 132. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14289-0_17

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