Analysing synchronised browser history

17 Jun 2019

Both Chrome and Firefox offer the ability to sync various browser data between multiple devices by signing in with a Google or Firefox account. This data includes autofill, bookmarks, extensions, passwords, preferences, open tabs and website visits. This post will focus on syncing website visits between devices and the impact this has on an investigation involving browser history.

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Analysing Firefox Session Restore data

09 May 2019

Like most web browsers Firefox includes a Session Restore feature allowing your currently open windows and tabs to be restored in the event of a forced-restart or crash. All session data is stored in a compressed file format referred to as MOZLZ4 or JSONLZ4. The file format is standard LZ4 data with a custom header. We have recently updated BHE to automatically extract session data from the sessionstore.jsonlz4 file and any files within the sessionstore-backups folder.

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Recovering Edge browser history using Windows Timeline

16 Oct 2018

Web pages that are viewed using the Edge browser are visible within Windows Timeline. Our testing has shown that browser activity remains in Timeline even when the Edge browser history has been cleared. Therefore, Timeline could be a useful source of data for browser forensics, as it can potentially provide easy access to deleted browser history.

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Timestamps in internet history

15 Oct 2016

When analysing web browser history the date and time that a particular action occurred can be just as important as the action itself. For example, you may be analysing history on a device that multiple people have access to and the exact time a particular action occurred could make all the difference.

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Examining internet history in forensic images

03 Jul 2016

There are a number of ways we can capture and present internet history data to Browser History Examiner (BHE) for analysis. Whichever method is chosen the investigator will need to mount the forensic image in order to present the internet history data to BHE, as it does not directly support the parsing of forensic image files.

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