Following the trail of Skype, Electron and Chromium using Browser History Examiner

22 Oct 2019

The Skype desktop app is now built using the Electron framework, which in turn uses the Chromium rendering engine and therefore creates some of the same artifacts as Google Chrome. We discuss how lots of useful data can be obtained from an Electron/Chromium based desktop application such as Skype using Browser History Examiner.

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Browser History Examiner v1.5 released

10 Feb 2016

Browser History Examiner v1.5 is now available to download. New features include: Extracting Email Addresses, Linking Form History to Web Page URLs and Searching Cached JSON Content.

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Web page reconstruction for forensic analysis

20 Jan 2016

Web page reconstruction is a vital feature of any forensic software used for analysing browser history. Web page reconstruction is the process of using HTML and other resources stored in the web browser cache to rebuild a web page, allowing it to be easily viewed in the state it was originally seen by the user. This can be a great piece of visual evidence to include in a report, as we all know "a picture is worth a thousand words".

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Analysing Skype contacts in the browser cache

14 Jan 2016

In the past it has been possible to recover artefacts for various online services such as Facebook and Gmail from the browser cache on disk. This was most likely due to different browser behaviour, incorrect use of HTTP headers in responses and a lack of consideration over data privacy.

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