Forwarded from: "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rslade@private> BKSFWRFR.RVW 20040706 "Software Forensics", Robert M. Slade, 2004, 0-07-142804-6, U$39.95/C$3.95/UK#29.99 %A Robert M. Slade rslade@private rslade@private %C 300 Water Street, Whitby, Ontario L1N 9B6 %D 2004 %G 0-07-142804-6 %I McGraw-Hill Ryerson/Osborne %O U$39.95/C$3.95/UK#29.99 800-565-5758 fax: 905-430-5020 %O http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0071428046/robsladesinterne http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0071428046/robsladesinte-21 %O http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0071428046/robsladesin03-20 %P 215 p. %T "Software Forensics" As long as I'm reviewing books about which I can't be objective, I might as well review my own. This book is about software forensics. Nobody seems to know what that is. "Oh, you look for child porno and drug dealer addresses on seized computers, right?" Umm, no. That's computer forensics which, although it should be broader, has become limited to the basic data recovery aspect of the wider field of digital forensics. Software forensics delves into what evidence you can glean from software itself. This is useful in malware and virus research (where it has long been known as forensic programming), as well as in cases involving intellectual property and plagiarism. The study and tools utilized in software forensics can assist with determining the intent and authorship of a piece of software. At times it can even help with tasks such as recovering source code with legacy programs, or porting to new systems. In the book there is an overview of software forensics itself. One chapter looks at blackhat sociology and culture, since those characteristics can be evident in the programming style. There is material on the various tools, and properties of malicious software. Presentation of this type of evidence in court is difficult, so chapter five reviews expert witness restrictions and other legal issues. Content is included on programming cultures, stylistic analysis, and authorship analysis. I can say, without any bias whatever, that this is the finest work on this topic available today. I can say that, because it's the *only* book that is dedicated to the subject. copyright Robert M. Slade, 2004 BKSFWRFR.RVW 20040706 ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) rslade@private slade@private rslade@private For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. - II Timothy 4:3 http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev or http://sun.soci.niu.edu/~rslade _________________________________________ Help InfoSec News with a donation: http://www.c4i.org/donation.html
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