Artech House Computer Security Series

By: George Mohay, Byron Collie, Olivier Vel

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Hardcover | 31 March 2003

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A comprehensive and broad introduction to computer and intrusion forensics, this practical work is designed to help you master the tools, techniques and underlying concepts you need to know, covering the areas of law enforcement, national security and the private sector. The text presents case studies from around the world, and treats key emerging areas such as stegoforensics, image identification, authorship categorization, link discovery and data mining. It also covers the principles and processes for handling evidence from digital sources effectively and law enforcement considerations in dealing with computer-related crimes, as well as how the effectiveness of computer forensics procedures may be influenced by organizational security policy.

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Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xvii
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Disclaimer	p. xxi
Computer Crime, Computer Forensics, and Computer Security	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
Human behavior in the electronic age	p. 4
The nature of computer crime	p. 6
Establishing a case in computer forensics	p. 12
Computer forensic analysis within the forensic tradition	p. 14
The nature of digital evidence	p. 21
Retrieval and analysis of digital evidence	p. 23
Sources of digital evidence	p. 27
Legal considerations	p. 29
Computer security and its relationship to computer forensics	p. 31
Basic communications on the Internet	p. 32
Computer security and computer forensics	p. 35
Overview of the following chapters	p. 37
References	p. 39
Current Practice	p. 41
Introduction	p. 41
Electronic evidence	p. 42
Secure boot, write blockers and forensic platforms	p. 44
Disk file organization	p. 46
Disk and file imaging and analysis	p. 49
File deletion, media sanitization	p. 57
Mobile telephones, PDAs	p. 59
Discovery of electronic evidence	p. 61
Forensic tools	p. 63
EnCase	p. 67
ILook Investigator	p. 69
CFIT	p. 72
Emerging procedures and standards	p. 76
Seizure and analysis of electronic evidence	p. 77
National and international standards	p. 86
Computer crime legislation and computer forensics	p. 90
Council of Europe convention on cybercrime and other international activities	p. 90
Carnivore and RIPA	p. 94
Antiterrorism legislation	p. 98
Networks and intrusion forensics	p. 103
References	p. 104
Computer Forensics in Law Enforcement and National Security	p. 113
The origins and history of computer forensics	p. 113
The role of computer forensics in law enforcement	p. 117
Principles of evidence	p. 121
Jurisdictional issues	p. 123
Forensic principles and methodologies	p. 123
Computer forensics model for law enforcement	p. 128
Computer forensic--secure, analyze, present (CFSAP) model	p. 128
Forensic examination	p. 133
Procedures	p. 133
Analysis	p. 143
Presentation	p. 146
Forensic resources and tools	p. 147
Operating systems	p. 147
Duplication	p. 149
Authentication	p. 152
Search	p. 153
Analysis	p. 154
File viewers	p. 159
Competencies and certification	p. 160
Training courses	p. 163
Certification	p. 164
Computer forensics and national security	p. 164
National security	p. 165
Critical infrastructure protection	p. 167
National security computer forensic organizations	p. 168
References	p. 169
Computer Forensics in Forensic Accounting	p. 175
Auditing and fraud detection	p. 175
Detecting fraud--the auditor and technology	p. 176
Defining fraudulent activity	p. 177
What is fraud?	p. 178
Internal fraud versus external fraud	p. 180
Understanding fraudulent behavior	p. 183
Technology and fraud detection	p. 184
Data mining and fraud detection	p. 187
Digit analysis and fraud detection	p. 188
Fraud detection tools	p. 189
Fraud detection techniques	p. 190
Fraud detection through statistical analysis	p. 191
Fraud detection through pattern and relationship analysis	p. 200
Dealing with vagueness in fraud detection	p. 204
Signatures in fraud detection	p. 205
Visual analysis techniques	p. 206
Link or relationship analysis	p. 207
Time-line analysis	p. 209
Clustering	p. 210
Building a fraud analysis model	p. 211
Stage 1: Define objectives	p. 212
Stage 2: Environmental scan	p. 214
Stage 3: Data acquisition	p. 215
Stage 4: Define fraud rules	p. 216
Stage 5: Develop analysis methodology	p. 217
Stage 6: Data analysis	p. 217
Stage 7: Review results	p. 218
References	p. 219
Appendix 4A	p. 221
Case Studies	p. 223
Introduction	p. 223
The case of "Little Nicky" Scarfo	p. 223
The legal challenge	p. 225
Keystroke logging system	p. 226
The case of "El Griton"	p. 229
Surveillance on Harvard's computer network	p. 230
Identification of the intruder: Julio Cesar Ardita	p. 231
Targets of Ardita's activities	p. 232
Melissa	p. 236
A word on macro viruses	p. 236
The virus	p. 237
Tracking the author	p. 239
The World Trade Center bombing (1993) and Operation Oplan Bojinka	p. 242
Other cases	p. 244
Testing computer forensics in court	p. 244
The case of the tender document	p. 248
References	p. 253
Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Forensics	p. 257
Intrusion detection, computer forensics, and information warfare	p. 257
Intrusion detection systems	p. 264
The evolution of IDS	p. 264
IDS in practice	p. 267
IDS interoperability and correlation	p. 274
Analyzing computer intrusions	p. 276
Event log analysis	p. 278
Time-lining	p. 280
Network security	p. 285
Defense in depth	p. 285
Monitoring of computer networks and systems	p. 288
Attack types, attacks, and system vulnerabilities	p. 295
Intrusion forensics	p. 303
Incident response and investigation	p. 303
Analysis of an attack	p. 306
A case study--security in cyberspace	p. 308
Future directions for IDS and intrusion forensics	p. 310
References	p. 312
Research Directions and Future Developments	p. 319
Introduction	p. 319
Forensic data mining--finding useful patterns in evidence	p. 323
Text categorization	p. 327
Authorship attribution: identifying e-mail authors	p. 331
Association rule mining--application to investigative profiling	p. 335
Evidence extraction, link analysis, and link discovery	p. 339
Evidence extraction and link analysis	p. 340
Link discovery	p. 343
Stegoforensic analysis	p. 345
Image mining	p. 349
Cryptography and cryptanalysis	p. 355
The future--society and technology	p. 360
References	p. 364
Acronyms	p. 369
About the Authors	p. 379
Index	p. 383
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