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Standardization of File Recovery Classification and Authentication

December 1, 2019
Author(s)
Eoghan Casey, Alexander J. Nelson, Jessica Hyde
Digital forensics can no longer tolerate software that cannot be relied upon to perform specific functions such as file recovery. The root of this problem is a lack of clearly defined software requirements, which compels users and tool testers to make

Navigating Unmountable Media with the Digital Forensics XML File System

May 31, 2018
Author(s)
Alexander J. Nelson, Alexandra Chassanoff, Alexandra Holloway
Some computer storage is non-navigable by current general-purpose computers. This could be because of obsolete interface software, or a more specialized storage system lacking widespread support. These storage systems may contain artifacts of great

NSRL Kaspersky dataset documentation

October 23, 2017
Author(s)
Alexander J. Nelson
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) National Software Reference Library (NSRL) has created curated releases of the Reference Data Set (RDS) consisting of hashes of Kaspersky products. This is in response to the DHS directive on

Inferring previously uninstalled applications from digital traces

May 25, 2017
Author(s)
Jim Jones, Tahir Kahn, Kathryn B. Laskey, Alexander J. Nelson, Mary T. Laamanen, Douglas R. White
In this paper, we present an approach and experimental results to suggest the past presence of an application after the application has been uninstalled and the system has remained in use. Current techniques rely on the recovery of intact artifacts and

Measuring Systematic and Random Error in Digital Forensics

July 24, 2015
Author(s)
Alexander J. Nelson, Simson L. Garfinkel
Recognized sources of error in digital forensics include systematic errors arising from implementation errors, and random errors resulting from faulty equipment. But as digital forensic techniques expand to include statistical machine learning, another