Investigating the new Skype media_cache with the Forensic Browser for SQLite

Skype recently introduced cloud based operation and started moving away from peer-to-peer messaging with a view, to paraphrase Skype, of improving the service that we receive.

The move has had the effect of introducing a new set of artefacts and in particular a new location for stored/cached image files (pictures).

This article deals with the SQLite tables that reference to these pictures, the locations of the pictures themselves and how to join the relevant tables, decode the data held in certain blob fields and create a report showing who sent what to whom including the pictorial evidence where possible.Read more:

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