Digital Forensics Tools. Linux and Macintosh File Systems. Cyber Security.

novembre 16, 2022 Mourad ELGORMA

Digital Forensics Tools. Linux and Macintosh File Systems. Cyber Security.
UNIX distributions
Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) IRIX, Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) UnixWare, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, and HP-UX
UNIX was created to be a multiuser, multithreaded, secure OS
The Linux kernel is usually packaged with other software components, such as a GUI and applications
Linux supports a wide range of file systems
UNIX and Linux have four components defining the file system: boot block, superblock, inode block, and data block
In the Linux file system, a hard link is a pointer that allows accessing the same file by different filenames
Before macOS, the file systems HFS and HFS+ were used
In older version of macOS, a file consists of two parts: a data fork and a resource fork
A volume is any storage medium used to store files
Plist files are preference files for installed applications on a macOS system
In macOS, unified logging has been added for recording log files and includes new utilities to help forensics examiners
The biggest challenge in acquiring images from macOS systems is often physical access to the drive
Linux forensic tools are often freeware

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