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Establishing the circumstances of working with USB-devices in the Windows operating system

Authors: Karlova A.V.
Published in issue: #4(33)/2019
DOI: 10.18698/2541-8009-2019-4-465


Category: Jurisprudence | Chapter: Criminal Law and Criminology

Keywords: operating system registry, USB-devices, SANS institute, VID and PID USB-devices, GUID, use of USB-device, Windows Registry Recovery, USB Deview, Windows Registry Analyser, Last Activity View
Published: 18.04.2019

The paper is concerned with the facts of the use of USB-devices using the registry of the Windows operating system, and specialized software. The author highlighted Windows registry keys that contain forensic information about connected USB devices, and event logs. In this paper showed the list of specialized software that automates the work of an expert in the study of the use of USB-devices. In his paper the author developed guidelines foe experts in the field of forensic computer and technical expertise to answer questions about which USB-devices, when b who connected to the computer under investigation.


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