Data concealment and detection in Microsoft Office 2007 files

Digital Investigation

Volumn 5, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 104-114

  Park, Bora ^a   Park, Jungheum ^a   Lee, Sangjin ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Data concealment; Hidden data detection; Microsoft Office 2007 file; OOXML; Unknown part; Unknown relationship

Indexed keywords

SECURITY OF DATA;

DATA CONCEALMENT; DATA DETECTION; MICROSOFT OFFICE; OOXML; UNKNOWN PART; UNKNOWN RELATIONSHIP;

SECURITY SYSTEMS;

EID: 60649094708     PISSN: 17422876     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diin.2008.12.001     Document Type: Article

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