WEB BROWSER FORENSICS: Evidence collection And Analysis for Most Popular Web Browsers usage in Windows 10

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ABSTRACT:

A web browser is an essential application program for accessing and performing various activities on the internet such as browsing internet, email, financial transaction, download files and videos, accessing social media application, etc.
As web browser is the only way to access the internet and cybercrime criminals use the web browser to commit the internet crimes.
It is essential for the digital forensic examiners and particularly for computer forensic investigators, to collect and analyze artifacts related to web browser usage from suspect’s device machine.
There are various browsers used such as Google Chrome, Firefox Mozilla, Internet Explorer, Safari, opera, etc, among which Google chrome is very popular among the internet user community.
In this Research paper, we collected and analyzed different artifacts such as history, cookies, cache, Session Restore, flash & super cookies,  etc on Windows 10 operating System installed Google chrome, Firefox  Mozilla  and internet explorer browser.
As result, reveals that web browsers leave traces of browsing activity on the host computer’s hard disk.
The outcome of this project will serve to be significant source for digital forensic research community, law enforcement practitioners especially for computer forensic investigators.

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