NDLI: Hiding in a virtual world: Using unconventionally installed operating systems

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Bares, R.A.
Copyright Year	2009
Description	Author affiliation: University of Central Florida, Orlando, 32816, USA (Bares, R.A.)
Abstract	Necessity is the mother of invention, and necessity has produced many software and hardware tools in the realm of computer networking and security to overcome problems encountered in the private and public sector. Unconventionally installed operating systems including virtual machines, operating systems installed on removable media and external storage drives are some recent inventions. These tools have been very useful to network administrators, but they can also be used in ways not intended by their creators in an attempt to mask the activities of a user. This paper will attempt to evaluate the possibility of using these unconventionally installed operating systems in an attempt to hide one's activities from conventional digital forensic tools. This evaluation will be conducted by repeating a series of tests inside a virtual environment, then overwriting the virtual environment flat file and having the host computer imaged and examined by forensic tools.
Starting Page	276
Ending Page	284
File Size	120938
Page Count	9
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424441716
DOI	10.1109/ISI.2009.5137326
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2009-06-08
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Virtual environment Digital forensics Virtual machining Network servers VMWare Law enforcement Operating systems Digital Forensics unconventionally installed operating systems Hardware Computer networks Software tools Computer security
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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