Book details of 'Software Forensics : Collecting Evidence from the Scene of a Digital Crime'

Title	Software Forensics : Collecting Evidence from the Scene of a Digital Crime
Author(s)	Robert Slade, Robert Slade
ISBN	0071428046
Language	English
Published	January 2004
Publisher	McGraw-Hill Professional

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
As long as I'm reviewing books about which I can't be objective, I might as well review my own. This book is about software forensics. Nobody seems to know what that is. "Oh, you look for child porno and drug dealer addresses on seized computers, right?" Umm, no. That's computer forensics which, although it should be broader, has become limited to the basic data recovery aspect of the wider field of digital forensics. Software forensics delves into what evidence you can glean from software itself. This is useful in malware and virus research (where it has long been known as forensic programming), as well as in cases involving intellectual property and plagiarism. The study and tools utilized in software forensics can assist with determining the intent and authorship of a piece of software. At times it can even help with tasks such as recovering source code with legacy programs, or porting to new systems. In the book there is an overview of software forensics itself. One chapter looks at blackhat sociology and culture, since those characteristics can be evident in the programming style. There is material on the various tools, and properties of malicious software. Presentation of this type of evidence in court is difficult, so chapter five reviews expert witness restrictions and other legal issues. Content is included on programming cultures, stylistic analysis, and authorship analysis. I can say, without any bias whatever, that this is the finest work on this topic available today. I can say that, because it's the *only* book that is dedicated to the subject. copyright Robert M. Slade, 2004
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Software forensics -- analyzing program code to track, identify, and prosecute computer virus perpetrators -- has emerged as one of the most promising and technically challenging aspects of information management and security. This is a technical tutorial that thoroughly examines the programming tools, investigative and analysis methods, and legal implications of the complex evidence chain. Also included are eye-opening case studies, including the famous Enron case, and sample code from real criminal investigations. Written by a security consultant whose clients include the Canadian Government, Software Forensics covers: * Basic concepts * Hackers, crackers, and phreaks * Objects of analysis: text strings, source code, machine code * User interfaces and commands * Program structures and versions * Virus families * Function indicators * Stylistic analysis * and much more There is no better or faster way for programmers, security analysts and consultants, security officers in the enterprise, application developers, lawyers, judges, and anyone else interested in software forensics to get up to speed on forensic programming tools and methods and the nature of cyber evidence.