I'm releasing the code and docs that I wrote during my Xbox 360 research. py360 is a FUSE filesystem driver and associated file parsers for reading Xbox 360 hard drives. It is designed to aid forensic examination of the Xbox 360. The main components are a FUSE file system for mounting the XTAF file system and a set of python classes for parsing the the STFS, XDBF and Account block file formats and the XTAF file system.
Read more →My research activity is coming to a head and I thought I'd let you all know how it is going. My early explorations were plagued by a plethora of hardware and software failures. The Xbox 360 thoughtfully provided to me by my University had a damaged hard drive which took me longer than it should to diagnose because I had to eliminate my procedure and imaging equipment as possible sources of errors. My setup is a…
Read more →Lately my blogging energies have been redirected into my study, namely a communications plan and a research proposal. The communication plan was for a persuasive communications class and the aim was to be able to devise a plan that could realistically alter the attitudes (and hopefully the behaviour) of an audience, it was a fascinating exercise that I don't plan on repeating any time soon. It turns out that I'm not much of a public…
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