Grow Your Own Forensic Tools: A Taxonomy of Python Libraries Helpful for Forensic Analysis

Python, a high-level language, provides an outstanding interface for forensicanalysts to write scripts to examine evidence. Python is the driving language for several current open-source forensic analysis projects from Volatility, for memory analysis to libPST for abstracting the process of...

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T.J. OConnor

September 13, 2010

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