Xbox security issues and forensic recovery methodology (utilising Linux)

Vaughan, Chris

doi:10.1016/j.diin.2004.07.006

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“…One major difference between the two types is that PCB Trojans can be inserted after board fabrication and assembly [4]- [6]. Examples of such in-field Trojan attacks include Xbox hacking by using a modchip [7], DRM-key bypassing by tampering of a PCB within a televi-sion set [8], and JTAG data bus hijacking on a PCB [9]. Another difference is the wide variety of substrates, fabrication methods, and components used by PCBs, which limits the applicability of inspection-based Trojan-detection methods.…”

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PRISTINE: An Emulation Platform for PCB-Level Hardware Trojans

Huan,

Paul,

Mandal

et al. 2024

IEEE Access

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Printed circuit Boards (PCBs) are becoming increasingly vulnerable to malicious design alteration, also known as Trojan attacks, due to a distributed business model that often involves various untrusted parties. Such attacks can be mounted at various stages in the PCB life cycle. The relative ease of alteration of PCB hardware even after fabrication (due to physical access to surface-mounted critical components and traces) makes them attractive for an adversary to manipulate their functional/physical behavior for malicious intent. There is a growing need to explore viable Trojan attacks in a PCB; analyze their functional and physical characteristics (e.g., impact on power or delay); and study the effectiveness of countermeasures against these attacks. Simulation based approaches for PCB Trojan insertion, while effective at creating a large population of possible Trojans, fail to provide functional feasibility analysis with realistic workload for a trigger circuit. They are also not able to estimate a Trojan's side-channel footprint due to unavailability of physical models of diverse PCB components. To address these deficiencies, in this paper, we present PRISTINE, a PCB-level emulation system for any integrity or physical tampering issues, specifically, hardware Trojan insertion. The need for building such an emulation platform to resolve PCB trust issues in the supply chain is surveyed and discussed. Both a custom Hardware Hacking (HaHa) board and multiple commercial PCBs are then used to test the ability of the proposed system to emulate various hardware Trojans specially designed to exploit board-specific hardware characteristics. Experimental results on emulated board-level Trojans show that a wide range of Trojans can be successfully activated, thus enabling the expected payload effects on both types of boards to be studied and quantified. The resulting data are further analyzed to create PCB-level Trojan benchmarks. In particular, a comparative evaluation of the experimental results is used to propose a risk level metric that quantifies the probability of detection and degree of payload impact of each Trojan on a given commercial PCB.

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PRISTINE: An Emulation Platform for PCB-Level Hardware Trojans

Huan,

Paul,

Mandal

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IEEE Access

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“…This case and others underscore the need for forensically-sound procedures for the imaging and forensic analysis of (seemingly benign) game consoles with advanced capabilities. Other researchers have focused on the forensic analysis of seventh generation game consoles, including the Xbox [1,17], Nintendo Wii [16] and PlayStation Portable [3]. The Xbox console has similar functionality as the PS3.…”

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Forensic Analysis of a PlayStation 3 Console

Conrad

Dorn

Craiger

2010

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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The Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) is a powerful gaming console that supports Internet-related activities, local file storage and the playing of Blu-ray movies. The PS3 also allows users to partition and install a secondary operating system on the hard drive. This "desktop-like" functionality along with the encryption of the primary hard drive containing the gaming software raises significant issues related to the forensic analysis of PS3 systems. This paper discusses the PS3 architecture and behavior, and provides recommendations for conducting forensic investigations of PS3 systems.

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“…Researchers have made great strides in the area of small device forensics (see, e.g., [10,13,14,22,30,33,37,41,61,67,69,70,74,76]). But much more work remains to be done given the rapid pace with which new models and devices enter the market.…”

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Digital Forensic Research: The Good, the Bad and the Unaddressed

Beebe¹

2009

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

116

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Digital forensics is a relatively new scientific discipline, but one that has matured greatly over the past decade. In any field of human endeavor, it is important to periodically pause and review the state of the discipline. This paper examines where the discipline of digital forensics is at this It is a compilation of the author's opinion and the viewpoints of twenty-one other practitioners and researchers, many of whom are leaders in the field. In synthesizing these professional opinions, several consensus views emerge that provide valuable insights into the "state of the discipline."

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Xbox security issues and forensic recovery methodology (utilising Linux)

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PRISTINE: An Emulation Platform for PCB-Level Hardware Trojans

PRISTINE: An Emulation Platform for PCB-Level Hardware Trojans

Forensic Analysis of a PlayStation 3 Console

Digital Forensic Research: The Good, the Bad and the Unaddressed

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