Full title in original language:
Anti-forensics: Furthering digital forensic science through a new extended, granular taxonomy
Education level:
University University (18+ years)Topic / subtopic:
Cybercrime Cybercrime investigationTarget audience:
Students,
Teachers / Lecturers
Type of resource:
Publication / Article
Languages:
English
Region of relevance:
Global
Access:
open access
Individual authors:
Kevin Conlan, Ibrahim Baggili, Frank Breitinger
Publication year:
2016
Published by:
Digital Investigation
Copyright holder:
© Digital Investigation
Contact name and address:
Digital Investigation
Contact website:
Key themes:
cyber, cybercrime, forensic, investigation, cyber-crime, cyber space, cyberspace, investigation, taxonomy
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Short description:
Anti-forensic tools, techniques and methods are becoming a formidable obstacle for the digital forensic community. Thus, new research initiatives and strategies must be formulated to address this growing problem. In this work, the authors, first collect and categorize 308 anti-digital forensic tools to survey the field. Then they devise an extended anti-forensic taxonomy to the one proposed by Rogers (2006) in order to create a more comprehensive taxonomy and facilitate linguistic standardization. Their work also takes into consideration anti-forensic activity which utilizes tools that were not originally designed for anti-forensic purposes, but can still be used with malicious intent. This category was labeled as Possible indications of anti-forensic activity, as certain software, scenarios, and digital artifacts could indicate anti-forensic activity on a system.