Browser Forensics

Browser Forensics

Browser data can be critical to a digital investigation. All browser stores certain basic pieces of information about every website visited, every image viewed, every search conducted and all other content both visible and invisible is downloaded and stored locally on One users device Some of this inforrnation gets automatically deleted after a short period and sorne of It is stored indefinitely, but all of it has the potential to be captured and used as evidence In todays, Internet obsessive world it is hard to imagine a scenario where web brovvser artifacts are useless. Browser forensics is the investigation of the data stored by the brovvsers and it helps in solving or gathering information in cases like Child abuse investigation, intellectual propety theft, cyber bullying and abuse, unauthorized access detection, malware forensics etc.