Chapter 14

Residual Cloud Forensics

CloudMe and 360Yunpan as Case Studies

A. Dehghantanha*; T. Dargahi    * University of Salford, Salford, United Kingdom Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Recently, cloud storage has emerged as a challenge for digital forensics investigators, as there are numerous types of cloud storage services freely available with the potential of being used for criminal activity. Several research studies focused on forensic acquisition of data from various cloud services to find out the forensic validity of data and metadata from cloud storage. This chapter analyzes CloudMe and 360Yunpan to detect residual artifacts with forensics value of user activities. We performed the experiments in three separate ...

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