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Forensic Potentials of Solid State Drives

verfasst von : Zubair Shah, Abdun Naser Mahmood, Jill Slay

Erschienen in: International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Extracting useful information from Solid State Drives (SSD) is a challenging but important forensic task. However, there are opposing views [14, 15, 22] that (1) SSDs destroy the forensics evidences automatically and (2) even after sanitization of SSDs, data can be recovered. This paper investigates this issue and reports experimental findings that identify the reason why certain SSDs seem to destroy forensic evidences while other SSDs do not. The experiments provide insight and analyses of the behaviour of SSDs when certain software components, such as Background Garbage Collector (BGC) and Operating System functions, such as TRIM, are executed on the SSD.

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Metadaten
Titel
Forensic Potentials of Solid State Drives
verfasst von
Zubair Shah
Abdun Naser Mahmood
Jill Slay
Copyright-Jahr
2015
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23802-9_11