From the previous few posts, I’ve touched on a number of resources that focus on the concepts of digital forensics. From the outset, digital forensics is often seen as a classy, high-tech operation bringing reams of information at the quick touch of a few buttons. The reality, however is slightly different. While an investigator can often find what they were looking for quickly, more and more data — that is, raw data — than ever before must be collected and processed. If you have something to hide within the gigabytes of data you undoubtedly possess, you’re going to do anything you can to keep someone from seeing it when they look. It is ever the careful and methodical process that traditional forensics was and will be.
Consise yet wide-ranging overview presentation of many of the concepts of using F/OSS in forensics. If you don’t understand some of the terms used, research them as background.
For the techie or experienced computer user; this paper introduces some procedures that investigators will use in a broad yet reasoning sense. Well written and understandable to those with a good background in computing.
This presentation by Brian Carrier provides a good outline of the digital forensic process. He points out the basic approach to a digital forensics investigation and the issues that one needs to be familiar with while doing so, such as file formats. Various resources provide greater depth. Some popular terms such as ‘known-good hashes’ are also defined.
Since leaving college with the highest award for my Multimedia course, my creative side has given way to my more proficient technical one. Gone were the days spent hunched over sketchbooks and snappily-taken photographs, designing for print and/or web; it has been the eye for detail, thinking in code and conundrums for Computer Science at university.
It’s balancing out now, though. I want to get all my work out in to the big wide world; what better place to do so than the Internet?
Why, hello there!
I’m Ben and this is my little corner of the web. I’m spending three years of my life being a bit of a geek at university, studying for a degree in Computer Science. I’ve a keen interest in Linux & free / open-source software, web technologies & design, security & forensics.
