Forensic Acquisition of Websites, Webpages and Online Services with Open Source Tools

Explore forensic acquisition techniques for online evidence using open source tools in this 30-minute conference talk from OSDFCon 2021. Learn how to build a custom solution for preserving digital evidence from websites, webpages, and various online services. Discover the challenges of freezing online evidence and the limitations of existing tools. Gain insights into combining open source tools like Firefox, wget, curl, ffmpeg, tcpdump, mitmproxy, and opentimestamps to create a forensically sound web browsing and site downloading environment. Understand how to expand this approach to acquire network traffic, web apps, Android apps, streaming media, and even Tor hidden services. Explore techniques for forensically acquiring WhatsApp and Telegram chats, as well as other browser-displayable or command-line accessible content. Presented by Paolo Dal Checco, an experienced computer forensics expert and digital investigator, this talk offers valuable knowledge for those interested in cutting-edge web forensics techniques and online content preservation methods.