HOW THE POLICE MANAGE TO EXTRACT ALL DATA EVEN DELETED FROM A COMPUTER? ~ DepoTech

To track down cyber criminals, computers are proving a goldmine of information. A life can be reconstructed from the data stored in our computers. And investigators do not hesitate. But how do they do?

They use special software in the digital forensics "computer forensics". Several software including EnCase, WinHex, Forensic Toolkit (FTK) Digital Forensics Framework and others have been developed to meet the growth needs (justice, police, secret services, military, private laboratories, etc.).

Here I will talk about "OSForensics", a Windows utility that will allow you to run very very extensive research on the content of a machine.

OSForensics with some or all of your PC data can be retrieved: the user data (emails, address book, social networks, history of visited sites ...), systems data (cookies, passwords and history of words password, file tree, logs ...) and even data that have been deleted in the past. Almost nothing escapes this software has become a must in the police and special services of any kind response forces.

OSForensics interface

You have to know when completely deletes a file, that is, when we remove it from the Recycle Bin, in fact, even if we do not realize it, the system does not completely remove the file. In fact, he simply said: "The place occupied by that file is now free." The data is not physically removed from the data carrier. The file exchange system just the information given in the operating system for memory slots used by your old file: instead of "here is such a piece of such a file," he said, "here is free, can be write off ". But information is still present.

OSForensics is indeed a program with many modules allowing everyone to make a real detective work on a Windows computer.

OSForensics allows to:

Research and file filtering

Exploration of memory

Recovering logins and passwords

Recovery of deleted files

Cracking passwords

Retrieving latest files, websites or accessed devices.

The latest computer activities

In-depth exploration of emails ... and many other features.

The program includes several tools that you can easily access through the clear and convenient interface. OSForensics is intended primarily for security specialists. The software can, moreover, be installed on a USB key to be used on any computer or on the go.

An interesting software to test, but with caution.

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