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Digital Forensics with Kali Linux
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Digital Forensics with Kali Linux

by Shiva V. N. Parasram
December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
274 pages
5h 46m
English
Packt Publishing
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Erasing a drive using DC3DD

We've seen the power of DC3DD as a very impressive forensic acquisition tool, but I'd also like to go one step further and introduce you to its capabilities as a data wiping tool. DC3DD can wipe data and erase drives by overwriting data in three ways:

  • Overwriting and filling the data and drives with zeroes. The command used is dc3dd wipe=/dev/sdb:
  • Overwriting and filling the data and drives using a hexadecimal pattern using the pat option. The command used is dc3dd wipe=/dev/sdb pat=000111:
  • Overwriting and filling ...
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ISBN: 9781788625005