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Web browser is the important application and majority user users use web browsers to access the social media sites, email application, web search engines, ecommerce sites and download the video or photos. Various web browsers are available in the market for this purpose but Google chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Brave are the well-known browser application. These web browsers might be use for normal internet access also use to committee the crime. In such case it is important to use digital forensics techniques to extract evidences which will be produced to court to prove the crime. Literature survey shows that dead forensics were frequently used by researchers but very less work is carried out to use live or RAM forensics to extract the evidences. In this research paper, we created real time scenario with Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Brave browser and use RAM forensics techniques to extract the evidences related to web browser activities.
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Sanghvi, H., Patel, V.J., Shah, R., Shukla, P., Rathod, D. (2023). Web Browser Forensics: A Comparative Integrated Approach on Artefacts Acquisition, Evidence Collections and Analysis of Google Chrome, Firefox and Brave Browser. In: Chaubey, N., Thampi, S.M., Jhanjhi, N.Z., Parikh, S., Amin, K. (eds) Computing Science, Communication and Security. COMS2 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1861. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40564-8_15
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