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Cloud Storage Client Application Analysis
Rakesh Malik, Narasimha Karpoor Shashidhar, Lei Chen
Pages - 1 - 14     |    Revised - 31-05-2015     |    Published - 30-06-2015
Volume - 9   Issue - 1    |    Publication Date - June 2015  Table of Contents
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KEYWORDS
Cloud Storage Forensics, Cloud Application Artifacts, Data Remnants, Data Carving, Digital Forensic Investigations.
ABSTRACT
The research proposed in this paper focuses on gathering evidence from devices with UNIX/Linux systems (in particular on Ubuntu 14.04 and Android OS), and Windows 8.1, in order to find artifacts left by cloud storage applications that suggests their use even after the deletion of the applications. The work performed aims to expand upon the prior work done by other researches in the field of cloud forensics and to show an example of analysis. We show where and what type of data remnants can be found using our analysis and how this information can be used as evidence in a digital forensic investigation.
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Mr. Rakesh Malik
Sam Houston State University - United States of America
Dr. Narasimha Karpoor Shashidhar
Sam Houston State University - United States of America
nks001@shsu.edu
Dr. Lei Chen
Georgia Southern University - United States of America


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