MEDIA AND STORAGE REVIEW SESSION
Arron Martin Zeus Brown
Learning outcomes
We will review the work so far ACW informal feedback Course feedback sheet
Types of device Some
examples
Best uses for Magnetic
storage. MO drive storage. Solid state storage. Optical storage.
Magnetic read and write head poles
Shields
Coils MR Reading Head MR Sensor
Inductive Writing head
Label Aluminium Phase change compound
Darken = 0 Leave translucent =1
Polycarbonate Plastic
Write Erasing Writing Erase data CD data
Dielectric layers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
USB connector USB mass storage controller device Test points Flash memory chip Crystal oscillator LED Write-protect switch Space for second flash memory chip
Internals of a typical flash drive (Saitek brand USB1.1 pictured)
Common uses
System administration Computer repair Application carriers To boot OS Windows vista ReadyBoost Personal data transport Audio players Music storage In arcades
Interface types
IDE EIDE UDMA ATA ATAPI SCSI Firewire USB Parallel Serial
Binary Hex Octal Convert the following to each of the above (starting in base 10) 10 34 6 16
Converting Rules
Octal blocks of 3 Hex block of 4 Some
examples to convert 111111111111 101011010101 101010101
Forensic issues
Explain what LZ adaptive dictionarybased algorithm is
Digitization Explain
what it is
Compression and Encryption
Explain what they are When you might use them
Last week (the pop quiz) What did you learn
What next
Looking at what we will be doing after X-mass
File systems
Ms filesystems
Unix filesystems
Other file systems
Partitioning (tools and partition types)
File allocation tables
Free space
Swap space
Slack space
Data deletion and recovery
Forensic tools
Introducing your ACW2 “Class meet ACW2 ACW2 meet class” Recovery imaging and analysis report writing note taking forensic skills
Things you might come across
Identifying the crime scene evidence Labelling and continuity (notes) Imaging Forensic tool kits (why that one) It will be in the form of several piece of work
Visual check
What needs to be done? Following You
will be 4 scenes
will need to observer and assess the scene
One
Two
Three
Four
Four
Review
What have you found Order
of preference to deal with
One
Two
Three
Four