Fighting forensics
Steve Mansfield-Devine · Computer Fraud & Security · 2010
Since crime began, the bad guys have tried to cover their tracks. For every advance in forensics and criminal detection, there has been a countermeasure. When fingerprinting was invented, burglars started wearing gloves. When hackers gain root on a remote system, they take care to delete log files to mask what they've done. And as IT forensics methods have improved, so have the anti-forensics techniques designed to defeat them.