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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Browser History Examiner v1.9 released

31 Jan 2019

Browser History Examiner v1.9 is now available to download. New features include: Website History Summary View, Search History Word Cloud and Export to Excel.

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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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FoxAnalysis and ChromeAnalysis products retired

20 Sep 2018

Back in 2011 we launched FoxAnalysis and ChromeAnalysis, our first commercial tools for analysing Firefox and Chrome internet history. As the majority of our customers are now using Browser History Examiner (BHE), we are retiring FoxAnalysis and ChromeAnalysis in order to focus on BHE and future products.

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