Computer Forensics
Computer Forensics
Computer Forensics
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SANS Institute GIAC Practical Papers by Mark E. Donaldson
Computer Forensics - Disk Analysis and Diagnostics
Computer Forensics - File Systems
Computer Forensics - File System Analysis
Computer Forensics - File System Analysis - TSK Informer
Computer Forensics - File System Analysis - Fragmentation
Computer Forensics - Data Recovery - Methodology
Computer Forensics - Data Recovery - TestDisk
Computer Forensics - Data Recovery - Hardware
Computer Forensics - Data Recovery - Hardware - HPA (Host Protected Area), SA (System Area) and DCO (Device Configuration Overlay)
Computer Forensics - Data Recovery - Hardware - CHS-LBA-PBA
Computer Forensics - Data Recovery - Hardware - Hard Disk Drive Barriers (Legacy)
Computer Forensics - Data Recovery - Hardware - Head Technology
Computer Forensics - Data Recovery - Hardware - Electronics
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Analysis of Nonlinear Transition Shift and Write Precompensation in Perpendicular Recording Systems by Zheng Wu, Paul H. Siegel, Jack K. Wolf, and H. Neal Bertram

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Atomic Force Microscopy by Alexander Luce

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Capacity of Noiseless and Noisy Two-Dimenstional Channels by Paul H. Siegel

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Codes for Digital Recorders by Kees A. Schouhamer Immink, Paul H. Siegel, and Jack K. Wolf

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Amiga Disk Encoding Schemes by Betty Clay

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Constrained Coding Techniques for Advanced Data Storage Devices by Paul H. Siegel

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Data Encoding Schemes by unknown

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Magnetic Media Recording

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Magnetic Field Sensor with Ferromagnetic Thin Layers Having Magnetically Antiparallel Polarized Components (Classic) Grunberg Patent 1988

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Modulation and Coding for Information Storage by Paul H. Siegel and Jack K. Wolf

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Noise Prediction for Perpendicular Recording by Zheng Wu, Paul H. Siegel, Jack K. Wolf, and H. Neal Bertram

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Receive Signal Decoders by unknown

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Recording Codes for Digital Magnetic Storage by Paul H. Siegel

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Servomotor Information (BPESolutions)

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Spin Stand Microscopy of Hard Disk Data by Craig Wright

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The Power Spectrum of Run-Length-Limited Codes by Ayis Gollopougos, Chris Heegard, and Paul H. Siegel

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The Virtures of Redundancy - An Introduction to Error-Correcting Codes by Paul H. Siegel

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The Continuing Miracle of Information Storage Technology by Paul H. Siegel

Computer Forensics - Data Recovery - Hardware - SSD (Solid State Disks)
Computer Forensics - Data Recovery - RAID
Computer Forensics - Data Recovery - Scrubbing and Sanitization
Computer Forensics - System Recovery
Computer Forensics - Volume Analysis
Computer Forensics - Volume Analysis - Hale Landis Classics
Computer Forensics - Volume Analysis - Boot Process
Computer Forensics - Volume Analysis - Boot Process - Loaders and Managers
Computer Forensics - Volume Analysis - Boot Process - Legacy Boot Code
Computer Forensics - Volume Analysis - Partitioning and Partition Tables - MBR
Computer Forensics - Volume Analysis - Partitioning and Partition Tables - GPT
Computer Forensics - Methodology and Evidence Acquisition
Computer Forensics - Disk and Forensic Imaging
Computer Forensics - Forensic Booting and Bootable Images - Technical
Computer Forensics - Forensic Booting and Bootable Images - CD-DVD
Computer Forensics - Forensic Booting and Bootable Images - USB
Computer Forensics - Forensic Booting and Bootable Images - Network
Computer Forensics - Memory Forensics and Analysis
Computer Forensics - Application and File Analysis
Computer Forensics - Steganography
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An Overview of Steganography for the Computer Forensics Examiner by Gary C. Kessler

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Debath Image Stego

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Discovering Covert Digital Evidence by Chet Hosmer and Christopher Hyde

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efdtt.c Image Stego

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Efficient Wet Paper Codes by Jessica Fridrich, Miroslav Goljan, and David Soukal

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Exploring Steganography - Seeing the Unseen by Neil F. Johnson and Sushil Jajodia

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Fast Steganography-based Multi-Party Protocols for Privacy-Preserving Association Rule Mining in Vertically Partitioned Data by Dragos Trinca and Sanguthevar Rajasekaran

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Hide and Seek - An Introduction to Steganography by Niels Provos and Peter Honeyman

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Hiding in Plain Sight - Steganography and the Art of Covert Communication by Eric Cole

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Hiding in Plain Sight - Using Steganography to Avoid Observation by Sean-Philip Oriyano

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Higher-Order Wavelet Statistics and their Application to Digital Forensics by Hany Farid and Siwei Lyu

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Improving Data Hiding Performance By Using Quantization in a Projected Domain by Fernando Perez-Gonzalez and Felix Balado

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Introduction to Steganography by unknown

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Matrix Embedding for Large Payloads by Jessica Fridrich and David Soukal

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Natural Language Steganography and an AI-complete Security Primitive by Richard Bergmair

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On Estimation of Secret Message Length in LSB Steganography in Spatial Domain by Jessica Fridrich and Miroslav Goljan

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Performance Analysis of Existing and New Methods for Data Hiding with Known-Host Information in Additive Channels by Fernando Perez-Gonzalez, Felix Balado, and Juan R. Hernandez

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Perturbed Quantization Steganography with Wet Paper Codes by Jessica Fridrich, Miroslav Goljan, and David Soukal

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Provably or Probably Robust Data Hiding by Felix Balado and Fernando Perez-Gonzalez

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Quantized Projection Data Hiding by Fernando Perez-Gonzalez and Felix Balado

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Searching for the Stego-Key by Jessica Fridrich, Miroslav Goljan, and David Soukal

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Secret Messages Come in .Wavs by Declan McCullagh

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Soft Tempest - Hidden Data Transmission Using Electromagnetic Emanations by Markus G. Kuhn and Ross J. Anderson

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Steganography - Hiding Data Within Data by Gary C. Kessler

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Steganography - How to Send a Secret Message by Bryan Clair

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Steganography - Implications for the Prosecutor and Computer Forensic Examiner by Gary C. Kessler

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Steganography and Steganalysis by J.R. Krenn

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Steganography Examples with Outguess by unknown

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Steganography via Codes for Memory with Defective Cells by Jessica Fridrich, Miroslav Goljan, and David Soukal

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Steganography - Implementation and Detection by Robert Krenn

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Steganography by Neil F. Johnson

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StegBreak Manual by unknown

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StegDetect Manual by Unknown

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StegFS - A Stegnography File System for Linux by Andrew D. McDonald and Markus G. Kuhn

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Steganography Poster

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Wet Paper Codes with Improved Embedding Efficiency by Jessica Fridrich, Miroslav Goljan, and David Soukal

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Writing on Wet Paper by Jessica Fridrich, Miroslav Goljan, and David Soukal

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A Robust Data Hiding Technique Using Multidimensional Lattices by J.J. Chae, D. Mukherjee, and B.S. Manjunath

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Applications for Data Hiding by W. Bender, W. Butera, D. Gruhl, R. Hwang, F. J. Paiz, and S. Pogreb

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Chaffing and Winnowing - Confidentiality Without Encryption by Ronald L. Rivest

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Coding at the Sample Level for Data Hiding - Turbo and Concatenated Codes by Felix Balado and Fernando Perez-Gonzalez

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Data Hiding Capacity and Embedding Techniques for Printed Text Documents by Aravind K. Mikkilineni et al

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Data Hiding in Video by J. J. Chae and B. S. Manjunath

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Digital Steganography - Hiding Data Within Data by Donovan Artz

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Echo Hiding by Daniel Gruhl, Walter Bender, and Anthony Lu

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Hexagonal Quantizers are not Optimal for 2-D Data Hiding by Felix Balado and Fernando Perez-Gonzalez

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Hiding Secrets with Steganography by Dru Lavigne

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LLRT Based Detection of LSB Hiding by K. Sullivan, O. Dabeer, U. Madhow, B.S. Manjunath, and S. Chandrasekaran

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Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Length of Secret Message Embedded Using K (PMK) Steganography in Spatial Domain by Jessica Fridrich, David Soukal, and Miroslav Goljan

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New Blind Steganalysis and its Implications by Miroslav Goljan, Jessica Fridrich, and Taras Holotyak

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Perturbed Quantization Steganography by Jessica Fridrich, Miroslav Goljan, and David Soukal

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Printer Mechanism-Level Data Hiding for Halftone Documents by Sungjoo Suh1

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Steganography FAQ by Aelphaeis Mangarae

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StegHide Manual by unknown

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Stochastic Approach to Secret Message Length Estimation in k Embedding Steganography by Taras Holotyak, Jessica Fridrich, and David Soukal

Computer Forensics - Steganography - Image
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A Framework for Evaluating the Data-Hiding Capacity of Image Sources by Pierre Moulin and M. Kivanc

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A Joint Source-Channel Coding Scheme for Image-in-Image Data Hiding by K. Solanki, O. Dabeer, B. S. Manjunath, U. Madhow, and S. Chandrasekaran

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A Review of Data Hiding in Digital Images by Eugene T. Lin and Edward J. Delp

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A Technique for Image Data Hiding and Reconstruction without Host Image by J. J. Chae and B. S. Manjunath

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An Analytical Study of JPEG 2000 Functionalities (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG1)

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An Evaluation of Image Based Steganography Methods by Kevin Curran and Karen Bailey

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Approaching the Capacity Limit in Image Watermarking - A Perspective on Coding Techniques for Data Hiding Applications by Fernando PeHrez-Gonzalez, Juan R. Hernandez, and Felix Balado

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Attacking the OutGuess by Jessica Fridrich, Miroslav Goljan, and Dorin Hogea

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Detecting Steganographic Content in Images Found on the Internet by Jeremy Callinan and Donald Kemick

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Detecting Steganographic Messages in Digital Images by Hany Farid

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Digital Image Steganography Using Stochastic Modulation by Jessica Fridrich, and Miroslav Goljan

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Dither Modulation Data Hiding with Distortion-Compensation - Exact Performance Analysis and an Improved Detector for JPEG Attacks by Fernando Perez-Gonzalez, Pedro Comesana and Felix Balado

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Estimation of Primary Quantization Matrix in Double Compressed JPEG Images by Jan Lukas and Jessica Fridrich

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Feature-Based Steganalysis for JPEG Images and its Implications for Future Design of Steganographic Schemes by Jessica Fridrich

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High Volume Data Hiding in Images - Introducing Perceptual Criteria Into Quantization Based Embedding by K. Solanki, N. Jacobsen, S. Chandrasekaran, U. Madhow, and B. S. Manjunath

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Higher-Order Statistical Steganalysis of Palette Images by Jessica Fridrich, Miroslav Goljan, David Soukal

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Image Adaptive High Volume Data Hiding Based on Scalar Quantization by N. Jacobsen et al

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Image and Video Coding Standards by Bernd Girod

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Image Steganography - Concepts and Practice by Mehdi Kharrazi, Husrev T. Sencar, and Nasir Memon

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Image Steganography and Steganalysis by unknown

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Introduction to Digital Image Steganography by David P. Holmes

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JPEG Image Coding Standard by Thomas Wiegand

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Multi-class Blind Steganalysis for JPEG Images by Tomas Pevny and Jessica Fridrich

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New Methodology for Breaking Steganographic Techniques for JPEGs by Jessica Fridrich, Miroslav Goljan, and Dorin Hogea

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Optimal Strategies for Spread-Spectrum and Quantized-Projection Image Data Hiding Games with BER Payoffs by Pedro Comesana, Fernando Perez-Gonzalez, and Felix Balado

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Practical Steganalysis of Digital Images - State of the Art by Jessica Fridrich and Miroslav Goljan

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Quantitative Steganalysis of Digital Images - Estimating the Secret Message Length by Jessica Fridrich, Miroslav Goljan, Dorin Hogea, and David Soukal

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Reliable Detection of LSB Steganography in Color and Grayscale Images by Jessica Fridrich, Miroslav Goljan, and Rui Du

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Robust Image-Adaptive Data Hiding - Modeling Source Coding and Channel Coding by K. Solanki, O. Dabeer, U. Madhow, B. S. Manjunath, and S. Chandrasekaran

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Secure Steganographic Methods for Palette Images by Jiri Fridrich and Du Rui

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Steganalysis Based on JPEG Compatibility by Jessica Fridrich, Miroslav Goljan, and Rui Du

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Steganalysis of Block-DCT Image Steganography by Ying Wang and Pierre Moulin

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Steganalysis of Images Created Using Current Steganography Software by Neil F. Johnson and Sushil Jajodia

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Steganalysis of JPEG Images - Breaking the F5 Algorithm by Jessica Fridrich, Miroslav Goljan, and Dorin Hogea

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Steganalysis Using Higher-Order Image Statistics by Siwei Lyu and Hany Farid

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Steganalysis Using Image Quality Metrics by Ismail Avcibas and Blent Sankur

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The JPEG 2000 Image Coding Standard by Diego Santa Cruz, Touradj Ebrahimi, and Charilaos Christopoulos

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Towards Multi-class Blind Steganalyzer for JPEG Images by Tomas Pevny and Jessica Fridrich

Computer Forensics - Steganography - Steganalysis
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Approach to Blind Steganalysis by Benjamin M. Rodriguez, SosS. Agaian, Ph.D., and James C. Collins

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Blind Statistical Steganalysis of Additive Steganography Using Wavelet Higher Order Statistics by Taras Holotyak, Jessica Fridrich, and Sviatoslav Voloshynovskiy

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Blind Steganography Detection using a Computational Immune System - A Work in Progress by Jacob T. Jackson, Gregg H. Gunsch, Roger L. Claypoole, Jr., and Gary B. Lamont

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Detecting Hidden Messages Using Higher-Order Statistical Models by Hany Farid

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Detecting Hidden Messages Using Higher-Order Statistics and Support Vector Machines by Siwei Lyu and Hany Farid

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Detection of Hiding in the Least Significant Bit by O. Dabeer, K. Sullivan, U. Madhow, S. Chandrasekharan, and B. S. Manjunath

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Forensic Steganalysis - Determining the Stego Key in Spatial Domain Steganography by Jessica Fridrich, Miroslav Goljan, David Souka, and Taras Holotyak

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Steganalysis - The Investigation of Hidden Information by Neil F. Johnson and Sushil Jajodia

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Steganalysis of Additive Noise Modelable Information Hiding by Jeremiah J. Harmsen and William A. Pearlman

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Steganalysis of Audio Based on Audio Quality Metrics by Hamza Ozer, Ismail Avcibas, Blent Sankur, and Nasir Memon

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Steganalysis of Recorded Speech by Micah K. Johnson, Siwei Lyu, and Hany Farid

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Steganalysis Using Color Wavelet Statistics and One-Class Support Vector Machines by Siwei Lyu and Hany Farid

Computer Forensics - Binary and Code Analysis
Computer Forensics - Binary and Code Analysis - Windows
Computer Forensics - Binary and Code Analysis - Windows - DLL's
Computer Forensics - Binary and Code Analysis - Windows - Mark Russinovich Papers
Computer Forensics - Binary and Code Analysis - Executable File Formats
Computer Forensics - Reverse Engineering
Computer Forensics - Malware
Computer Forensics - Malware - Historical
Computer Forensics - Malware - Denial-of-Service (DOS)
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Distributed Denial-of-Service in Depth by badpacl3t

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Denial-of-Service Technical Primer by Chris McNab

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Distributed Reflection Denial-of-Service Attack by Steve Gibson

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Denial-of-Service Topology by Coretez Giovanni

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Gibson DOS Attack (Original) by Steve Gibson

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Gibson DOS Attack (Expanded) by Steve Gibson

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Inferring Internet Denial-of-Service Activity by David Moore, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Stefan Savage

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Introduction to Denial-of-Service by Brian Hatch and James Lee

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Analyzing Distributed Denial-of-Service Tools - The Shaft Case by Sven Dietrich, Neil Long and David Dittrich

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The Mstream Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack Tool by David Dittrich, George Weaver, Sven Dietrich, and Neil Long

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The Shaft Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack Tool by Sven Dietrich, Neil Long, and David Dittrich

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The Stacheldraht Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack Tool by David Dittrich

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The Tribe Flood Network(TFN) Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack Tool by David Dittrich

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The Tribe Flood Network 2000(TFN) Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack Tool by Jason Barlow and Woody Thrower

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The Tribe Flood Network 3000(TFN) Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack Tool by Mixter

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The Trinoo Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack Tool by David Dittrich

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Thwarting Denial-of-Service Attacks by Hari Balakrishnan

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TCP SYN Flood DoS Attack Wireless Network Experiments by Ashif Adnan, Omair Alam, and Akhtaruzzaman

Computer Forensics - Malware - Root Kits
Computer Forensics - Malware - Virus and Worms
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Anti-Virus is Dead by Robin Bloor Hurwitz and Associates

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Worm Detection by Weaver, Staniford, Paxson, and Cunningham

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Worm Detection, Early Warning, and Response Based on Local Vitim Information by Guofei Gu, Monirul Sharif, Xinzhou Qin, David Dagon, Wenke Lee and George Riley

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Taxonomy of Computer Worms by Todd Haberlein

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Computer Viruses Theory and Experiments (Classic) by Cohen Classic

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Computer Viruses - Prevention, Detection, and Treatment (Classic) by Mario Tinto

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Nimda by Unknown

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SandboxII - Internet by Kirt Natvig

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Who Wrote Sobig by unknown

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Witty Worm Analysis by Matthew Murphy

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Bymer Worm by Monty McDougal

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The Internet Worm Incident by Eugene H. Spafford

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Sparse - Hybrid System to Detect Malcode Bearing Documents by Wei-Jen Li and Salvatore Stolfo

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Classification of Packed Executables for Accurate Computer Virus Detection by Roberto Perdisci, Andrea Lanzi, and Wenke Lee

Computer Forensics - Malware - Trojans
Computer Forensics - Malware - Bots
Computer Forensics - Malware - Attacks
Computer Forensics - Malware - Vulnerabilities and Exploits
Computer Forensics - Malware - Shellcode and Buffer Overflows
Computer Forensics - IDS (Intrusion Detection and Systems)
Computer Forensics - Log Analysis
Computer Forensics - Timestamping
Computer Forensics - Password Recovery and Password Cracking
Computer Forensics - Windows
Computer Forensics - UNIX and Linux
Database Forensics
Database - Relational Database Management Systems
Database - SQL
Database - Oracle
Database - SQL Server
Database - DB2
Database - MySQL and PostgresSQL
Hardware Forensics
Hardware Forensics - CPU
Hardware Forensics - CPU Programming-Architecture-Specification
Hardware Forensics - Memory
Hardware Forensics - Hard Disk Drives (HDD)
Hardware Forensics - SSD (Solid State Disks)
Hardware Forensics - Hard Disk Storage Device Specifications
Hardware Forensics - CD and DVD
Hardware Forensics - BIOS
Hardware Forensics - Power
Hardware Forensics - UPS (Uninteruptable Power Supply) and Surge Protectors
Hardware Forensics - KVM Switches
Hardware Forensics - USB and Firewire
Hardware Forensics - Multimedia (Audio-Sound-Video)
Hardware Forensics - Cables and Connectors
Hardware Forensics - Communication Ports
Data Representation
Encryption
ITIL (Information Technology Information Library) - Network and Change Management
The Rainbow Books (DOD/NCSC Classics)
NSA (National Security Agency) Security Guides
NIST (National Institute for Standards and Technology) Security Guides
Whitepapers from SecurityFocus.com
Technical Books