Video Game Device Forensics

Link to publication.

Paper by Scott Conrad, Greg Dorn, and J. Philip Craiger.

This paper is a very detailed overview of the current state of PlayStation 3 forensics.  It goes into great detail revealing problems with current forensic approaches (due to the extensive security restrictions placed on the device’s native OS partition), and also discusses capabilities and the potential for such devices to yield useful evidence.  The paper concludes by proposing a forensic technique to be used in the absence of more traditional methods, and goes on to suggest several steps for future work on the console.