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Finding deleted information in web archives

Finding deleted information in web archives

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Finding deleted information in web archives

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- [Instructor] When I was a kid I often dreamed about having a time machine. I thought it'd be awesome to travel back in time, get do-overs, and explore alternate times. I revisited this dream early in my penetration testing career when I came across a target's website with sensitive information. A couple of days later, I went back to the bookmarked URL to take a screenshot and the information was gone. I was so upset with myself that I hadn't captured the information on the target's website before it was removed. It wasn't until later in my career when an attorney told me about the Wayback Machine. This attorney was able to use an internet time machine to go back in time and take screenshots, giving them the evidence they needed before it was deleted on websites. Archive.org, or the Wayback Machine, is an online archive of the internet founded in 2001 by the Internet Archive, which is a nonprofit organization…

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