A number of additional applications in digital forensic challenge creation for tool testing and validation, proficiency testing, and malware analysis are also discussed as a result of using EviPlant.
Computer crimes are a forensics challenge because they are typically designed to mask their origins.
Cybersecurity competitions for teams of high school students are sponsored by the Defense Department's Digital Forensics Challenge, the Air Force Association and other cybersecurity organizations; it is not the case that no contests are available for high school students to face off against each other.
The cyber-forensics challenge looks particularly interesting.
The following memory images were chosen: DFRWS 2008 forensics challenge, volatility memory samples, and memory snapshots from virtual machines running on the VMware Workstation.
Cyber Forensics Challenge – Elite high school teams compete against the clock to solve a murder mystery using their skills in log and file analysis, rootkit detection and analysis, botnet detection and analysis, live system forensics, steganography and file carving.
James Christy, who runs the Digital Forensics Challenge, admits that a minority of hacker-trained students will "go to the dark side," though he believes the benefits will outweigh the creation of a few young cybercriminals.
The Department of Defense's Cyber Crime Center will expand its Digital Forensics Challenge, a program it has run since 2006, to include high school and college participants, tasking them with problems like tracing digital intrusions and reconstructing incomplete data sources.
The contests he promotes include the Air Force's Cyber Patriot competition, which has high school contestants fending off a "Red Team" of hackers attempting to steal their data, and the Department of Defense's Digital Forensics Challenge, in which teens and college students compete to trace digital intrusions and reconstruct incomplete data sources.
We then present the results of our analysis of ZFS functionality, architecture, and disk layout – identifying and discussing several digital forensic artifacts and challenges unique to ZFS.
