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The PlayStation Portable (PSP) is a popular handheld game console. The lack of a hard disk unit within the PSP does not imply a lack of stored data. It incorporates an onboard NAND flash memory and a memory card reader. This paper aims to raise awareness of the presence of custom firmware and identify possible data hiding places in the PSP. It discusses PSP forensics issues and proposes a possible technique for how such a PSP system may be forensically examined.
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Zhou, Q., Poole, N. (2010). Forensic Investigation of the Soft-Modded PlayStation Portable (PSP). In: Weerasinghe, D. (eds) Information Security and Digital Forensics. ISDF 2009. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 41. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11530-1_6
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