Introduction Microsoft Internet Explorer maintains a number of INDEX.DAT files to record visits to web sites as well as to maintain cache and cookie data. In this article, we will look at the Daily and Weekly files. Daily INDEX.DAT Entries The Daily INDEX.DAT file maintains a Daily record of visited pages. This INDEX.DAT file has an unusual HOST record […]
Introduction to Time Zone Identification In a digital forensic examination, establishing which Time Zone the system had been set to should one of the first examination tasks. If this information is not established at an early stage and taken into account, the validity of Date/Time evidence may be brought into question. Not only is this […]
Internet Explorer introduced a number of new security and privacy features in version 8. One of these new features was InPrivate Filtering. InPrivate Filtering helps prevent the web sites a user visits from automatically sending details about the visit to other content providers. When a user visits a web site, it automatically shares standard computer […]
Introduction Redirects provide a way to transport the browser from one point on a web site to another. Redirects are most commonly used to translate references to outdated web pages to new, updated ones. They can be instigated either by the browser, in which case they are referred to as client-side redirect, or by the […]