Windows Jump Lists Forensic Analysis
Microsoft introduced Jump Lists in the Windows 7 desktop operating system as a mechanism to enhan…
Microsoft introduced Jump Lists in the Windows 7 desktop operating system as a mechanism to enhan…
ShellBags are among the most intricate and analytically demanding registry artifacts encountered …
ShellBags constitute Windows forensic artifacts that capture shell-mediated folder enumeration an…
In both legal and digital forensic contexts, spoliation denotes the intentional or negligent dest…
The Update Sequence Number (USN) Journal was first introduced with NTFS in Windows 2000. However,…
The NTFS file system incorporates journaling as a core mechanism to enhance metadata consistency …
Forensic reconstruction of historical activity on a New Technology File System (NTFS) volume relies…
The ext4 filesystem—the default choice for most modern Linux distributions—is a robust evolution …
Modern filesystems commonly employ journaling to safeguard data integrity. A journal acts as a wr…
A directory is a special type of file that contains a list of mappings between filenames (or subdir…
Earlier vers ions of the extended file systems used a traditional Unix-style mapping where each …
An inode (index node) is a fixed-size data structure that holds metadata about a file, directory, s…
An inode bitmap is a sequence of bits that tracks inode allocation status within a block group/fl…
In file system forensics, a bitmap is a special metadata structure that records which storage uni…
The smallest storage unit addressable by a disk is a sector , which has traditionally been 512 byte…
In the first block of the filesystem, the first 1024 bytes are left for the installation of boot …