Web Forensics: A Hands-On Guide To Investigate Online Crime

Investigate cybercrimes with web forensics — learn evidence collection, analysis, legal handling, and real-world tools.

What you'll learn

Perform web forensics to extract and analyze digital evidence from browsers and servers

Investigate HTTP traffic, cookies, cache, and session data using forensic tools

Detect and counter web-based attacks targeting clients and servers

Prepare court-admissible reports and document web evidence for legal proceedings

Requirements

No prior experience in digital forensics is required

A PC or laptop (Windows, macOS, or Linux) with internet access

Curiosity about cybercrime, cybersecurity, or digital investigations

Description

Learn How to Investigate Cybercrimes and Recover Digital Evidence from Websites, Browsers, and Web Servers!As digital crimes grow more sophisticated, web forensics is becoming a must-have skill in the toolkit of cybersecurity professionals and digital investigators. Whether it’s a phishing attack, website defacement, or data theft, web-based incidents require specialized skills to investigate, analyze, and present digital evidence effectively.This comprehensive course explores the theory and practice of web forensics, teaching you how to identify, collect, analyze, and present digital evidence from both web clients (browsers) and servers. You’ll understand how online activities can be traced, how attacks are carried out, and how to preserve data that may support legal investigations.What You’ll Learn:The fundamentals of web forensics and internet architectureTypes of digital evidence from web browsers and serversCommon web-based attacks and how to counter themTools and techniques to acquire, preserve, and analyze online dataHow to present web evidence in reports and court-admissible formatsReal-world tools like Autopsy, Wireshark, and Fiddler in actionLegal and compliance aspects of handling digital web evidenceWhether you're new to digital forensics or want to deepen your skills in web investigation, this course provides hands-on case studies, real-world tools, and practical challenges to accelerate your learning.

Overview

Section 1: Foundations of Web Forensics

Lecture 1 What Is Web Forensics?

Lecture 2 History & Architecture of the World Wide Web

Lecture 3 Tools for Long-Term Evidence Preservation

Lecture 4 Tools for Visualizing and Reporting Evidence

Section 2: Understanding Web-Based Digital Evidence

Lecture 5 Types of Evidence from Web Clients (Browsers)

Lecture 6 Types of Evidence from Web Servers

Lecture 7 Tools for Deep Dive Analysis

Lecture 8 eDiscovery Laws and Digital Compliance

Lecture 9 Challenge: Exploring and Interpreting Web Logs

Section 3: Acquiring and Preserving Web Evidence

Lecture 10 Techniques for Collecting Web-Based Evidence

Lecture 11 Essential Tools for Evidence Acquisition

Lecture 12 Case Study: Examining CSS Exploits

Lecture 13 Case Study: Using Autopsy for Evidence Recovery

Lecture 14 Walkthrough Solution: Mastering Fiddler

Section 4: Analyzing and Presenting Web Evidence

Lecture 15 Techniques for Web Evidence Analysis

Lecture 16 Presenting Web Evidence in Reports & Legal Contexts

Lecture 17 Case Study: Investigating Malicious JavaScript

Lecture 18 Hands-On Challenge: Advanced Features of Fiddler

Lecture 19 Solution: CSS-Based Evidence Walkthrough

Section 5: Legal Aspects of Web Forensics

Lecture 20 Legal Requirements for Handling Web Evidence

Lecture 21 Ensuring Admissibility in Court

Lecture 22 Proper Documentation of Online Evidence

Lecture 23 Challenge: Analyze and Interpret CSS Forensics

Lecture 24 Solution: Log File Investigation Demo

Aspiring digital forensics professionals looking to explore web forensics,IT students or tech enthusiasts curious about internet crimes and digital investigations,Cybersecurity beginners who want to understand how online evidence is collected and analyzed,Anyone interested in learning how web-based attacks work and how to trace and report them