Looking Into The Structure of MBOX File

MBOX stands for Mailbox, which is a file format that holds a collection of email messages in plain text format. All the messages are stored in individual, long text format and the new messages are appended to the end of the file. MBOX stores the messages in RFC 2822, original Internet Message format, making it easily accessible.

Dig Out Evidences Through Control Panel Forensics

Windows Operating System Control Panel is implemented as a series of applets and each of these applets is represented by .cpl file. These applets are usually stored in %system root%\System32 folder and can be opened through system binary ‘control.exe’ a control panel application. There are various ways available to access it and each of these methods can destine you with different artifacts which are also stored in varied places depending on the version of Windows.

An Introduction To Virtual Machine Forensics

The virtual machine is a software application using which one can create separate OS environments. Each environment limits the use of its hardware and software resources. In an ideal case, an individual virtual machine behaves as an independent system possessing its personal operating system and hardware. The control over each environment is provided to the user independently.

Tricks To Simplify Exchange Email Forensics

Microsoft Exchange Server has provided a secure messaging environment and offers a database to store the communication information. The user database gets saved in two forms: mailboxes and the public folders that gets saved as priv.edb and pub.edb file respectively and for simplification it required Exchange email analysis.

For Exchange email forensics, most of the investigators prefer using third party tools that helps to analyze Outlook data but Microsoft has embedded options in this server applications for eDiscovery and compliance purpose. 

SQL Injection Attack – Injecting Harmful/Malicious SQL Code

SQL Injection Attack & Its Types

 Similar to other things SQL also has two sides, one good and the other bad. On one side the programming language is used for management of relational database whereas on the other it can also be utilized for execution of malicious attacks by attackers. One example is SQL injection attack, by means of which malicious codes are injected into the server and then into the SQL database. This results in extraction of useful and valuable information from the system by backdoor. The attack generally affects the link between a server and client-mostly a web server, where security layers such as SSL, TLS, etc. are not utilized, and the browser. This is because normally data exchanged between web browsers and web servers is in the form of plain text-which leaves users vulnerable to eavesdropping. In such cases attacker are able to intercept all data being shared.

Cyber Crime Awareness For Rising Frauds Through Emails

Cyber Space is a word that defines worldwide network of computers and is now days popularly termed as Internet. The more its usage is increasing; higher are the chances that it is being misused.One of the major part of internet is e-mails and its usage has been increased extensively over the decade. Identity theft, diffusion of obscene material, online fraud, cyber stalking or bullying etc are some of the consequences that have rotted the cyber space environment.

Laws Of Facebook: Know Them And Abide By Them

Facebook is a single word that has the potential to strike up millions of things in the human mind. Undoubtedly, this is amongst the many impacts made by this social network, which has completely revolutionized how people communicate these days.