Open Source Software for Digital Forensics
Open Source Applications Springer Book Series Editor: Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy http://sesar.dti.unimi.it/ossbook/ Open Source Software for Digital Forensics is the first book dedicated to the use of FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Softwar
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Ewa Huebner Stefano Zanero ●
Editors
Open Source Software for Digital Forensics
Editors Ewa Huebner Computer Forensis Consulting, Warrimoo NSW Australia [email protected]
Stefano Zanero Dipto. Elettronica e Informazione (DEI) Politecnico di Milano Milano Italy [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4419-5802-0 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-5803-7 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-5803-7 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2010920822 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
This book is a collection of revised and extended chapters based on papers presented at the Open Source Software for Computer and Network Forensics (OSSCoNF) workshop, held in Milan in September 2008 at the World Computing Congress, co-located with the 4th Open Source Software Conference, and some new work purposely commissioned for the book. It is aimed at scholars and free software authors, researchers, and digital forensics practitioners; it can serve both as a research archival resource, and an introductory text. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first research book totally oriented to the use of Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) in digital forensics. The purpose of the OSSCoNF workshop was twofold. First, we wished to determine the specific needs in computer and network forensics that are best addressed by the use and the creation of open source software. Secondly, we wished to give the authors a forum to present their tools and the research work that went into their design and development. Similarly, this book consists of two parts, the first dealing with the motivations for using FLOSS in computer forensics today, and the second describing a number of tools (some that were presented at OSSCoNF), along with their evolution and some more extensive explanation of the details. Part 1 consists of three chapters. In chapter 1 Zanero and Huebner discuss the importance of open source software in digital forensics with the focus on provably verifiable findings, and on easing reliance on expensive closed source software. Chapter 2 by Huebner, Bem and Cheung is dedicated to the application of the open source software tools in computer forensics education at tertiary level. The
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