XBOX 360 Forensics

Acknowledgments

This project was an interesting undertaking. What I mean by this is that there is little understood about the artifacts of the console, how it stores information, what format the information is stored in, and how to extract that data and make sense of it. This lack of knowledge is, of course, in comparison with the more mainstream digital storage media, such as a Windows-based PC hard drive or an Apple Mac hard drive. In any event, there was concern on my part about either overlooking an important step or inadvertently generating artifacts from a process that was run or a game that was executed.

With all these factors to be concerned about, I decided that there were several initial steps that needed to be taken. The first, of course, ...