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Glossary Forensics

SQLite

SQLite is a lightweight database stored in a single file, used by browsers, phones and many apps to keep their data.

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Chrome keeps its browsing history in a SQLite file named History, and Firefox uses places.sqlite. Deleted rows often survive in free pages until they are overwritten, so a forensic parser can recover entries that the browser no longer shows. See the Browser Forensics.

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Browser Forensics

Analyze Chrome and Firefox profile databases in your browser - rebuild browsing and download timelines, inventory cookies.

See also

  • Glossary Cookie
    A cookie is a small piece of data a website stores in your browser and sends back with later requests.
  • Glossary Metadata
    Metadata is data about data: the hidden or secondary information a file carries about itself, such as its author, creation date.
  • Glossary File carving
    File carving is recovering files from raw storage by searching for their start and end signatures.
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