Gaming consoles’ relevance to the field of digital forensics has steadily been growing sincetheir presence in society has increased. Given how gaming platforms, such as the Xbox One,are produced for commercial interest, they are likely to be secured by use of proprietaryknowledge to safeguard personal data. The means by which information is secured isunknown, thus displaying the need for investigations to determine what information can beextracted from hard drive disk images and whether any of it is personally identifiable data.Furthermore, predecessors to the Xbox One were successfully modified by users, allowingunsigned code to be run; however, this is currently not possible on the Xbox One. In addition,due to the generational aspect of game consoles, proper digital forensic methodology needs tobe developed specifically adapted to the Xbox One. An exploratory approach was pursued toallow for the scope to remain dynamic, letting information found to point to additionalavenues of investigation and research. No personally identifiable information was found, yetthe analysis of selected files allowed for hypotheses concerning their intended purpose.Through file analysis, encryption was found to be in use on the console. Moreover, theMaster File Table was demonstrated as a significant extension to the foundation of consoleforensics methodology. Lastly, it was established that the Xbox One successfully prevents therunning of unsigned code, showing a significant improvement compared to its predecessors.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:hh-42511 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Lidström, Robbin, Elfving, Elfving |
| Publisher | Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för informationsteknologi, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för informationsteknologi |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
Page generated in 0.0162 seconds