OS X Artifact Analysis
Bhavana Maddu1, P.V.R.D Prasad Rao2
1Bhavana Maddu, M.Tech Student, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiah Educational Foundation, Vaddeswaram, Guntur District (A.P), India.
2Dr. P.V.R.D Prasad Rao, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiah Educational Foundation, Vaddeswaram, Guntur District (A.P), India.
Manuscript received on 21 March 2019 | Revised Manuscript received on 02 April 2019 | Manuscript Published on 18 April 2019 | PP: 26-32 | Volume-7 Issue-6S March 2019 | Retrieval Number: F02090376S19/2019©BEIESP
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Abstract: Recent day’s apple computers have been trend to new generation. As the usage of apple products is increasing day by day, the market has increased more for apple devices. Apple computers has default MAC OS operating system. Even though mac is secure it also experiences cyber related crimes. The cybercrimes across the world has been increased more but there are limited open source forensics tools for MAC along with different operating systems to analyse the cybercrime. A Digital forensic investigator collects the atrifacts from the evidence and analyse using digital forensic techniques. Mac uses different methodologies for investigating a cybercrime. Artifacts plays key role in analyzing the crime by finding the traces. Artifacts are related to system, user and third party applications (chrome, Firefox, Skype, Team Viewer etc.) This research paper helps to find out the black listed software’s that are installed in Mac computers.
Keywords: Mac OS X, OS X Forensics, Mac Forensics, Digital Forensics, Artifact Analysis.
Scope of the Article: Predictive Analysis