Penetration Tester's Open Source Toolkit, 2nd Edition

Chapter 8. Forensic Discovery and Analysis Using Backtrack

Solutions in this chapter:

• Digital Forensics

• Acquiring Images

• Forensic Analysis

• File Carving

• Case Studies: Digital Forensics with the Backtrack Distribution

Summary

Introduction

Computer forensics is an emerging discipline that has exploded in popularity in recent years. It is an exciting field and a lot of security professionals are interested in learning more about it. Although computer forensics traditionally is not the first thing that comes to mind when people think about doing penetration testing, a large number of companies are starting to turn to computer forensic tools because of their ...