Identifying bugs in digital forensic tools
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publisher
Edith Cowan University
Faculty
Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science
School
ECU Security Research Institute
RAS ID
16190
Abstract
Bugs can be found in all code and the consequences are usually managed through up-grade releases, patches, and restarting operating systems and applications. However, in mission critical systems complete fall over systems are built to assure service continuity. In our research we asked the question, what are the professional risks of bugs in digital forensic tools? Our investigation reviewed three high use professional proprietary digital forensic tools, one in which we identified six bugs and evaluated these bug in terms of potential impacts on an investigator's work. The findings show that yes major brand name digital forensic tools have software bugs and there is room for improvement. These bugs had potential to frustrate an investigator, to cost time, to lose evidence and to require compensatory strategies. Such software bugs also have the potential for malicious exploitation and anti-forensic use.
DOI
10.4225/75/57b3c3befb86c
Access Rights
free_to_read
Comments
Cusack B., Homewood A. (2014). Identifying bugs in digital forensic tools. Proceedings of the 11th Australian Digital Forensics Conference, ADF 2013. (pp. 51-58). Edith Cowan University. Available here