Cloud Storage Forensic: hubiC as a Case-Study
This provides incremental forensic data for investigators analyzing cloud storage on Windows systems.
The paper investigated forensic artifacts from the hubiC cloud storage platform on Windows 8.1, identifying traces from upload, download, installation, and uninstallation activities.
In today society where we live in a world of constant connectivity, many people are now looking to cloud services in order to store their files so they can have access to them wherever they are. By using cloud services, users can access files anywhere with an internet connection. However, while cloud storage is convenient, it also presents security risks. From a forensics perspective, the increasing popularity of cloud storage platforms, makes investigation into such exploits much more difficult, especially since many platforms such as mobile devices as well as computers are able to use these services. This paper presents investigation of hubiC as one of popular cloud platforms running on Microsoft Windows 8.1. Remaining artefacts pertaining different usage of hubiC namely upload, download, installation and uninstallation on Microsoft Windows 8.1are presented.