Forensic analysis of volatile instant messaging

IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

Volumn 285, Issue , 2008, Pages 129-138

  Kiley, Matthew ^a   Dankner, Shira ^a   Rogers, Marcus ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artifacts; Forensic analysis; Instant messaging; Volatile information

Indexed keywords

MESSAGE PASSING; WEB BROWSERS; WEBSITES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ARTIFACTS; CLIENT MACHINE; CONFIGURATION FILES; FORENSIC ANALYSIS; INSTANT MESSAGING; REGISTRY KEYS; VOLATILE INFORMATION; WEB BASED PROJECTS; WEB-BASED PROGRAMS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); MESSAGE PASSING;

EID: 51149106811     PISSN: 15715736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-84927-0_11     Document Type: Article

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