Honeynet Project
Scan of the Month 24
2002

OFFICAL RESULTS PAGES

Questions/Answer 2

Question:
What crucial data is available within the cover page.jpg file and why is this data crucial?

Answer:
The password "goodtimes" was located in the slack space of cover page.jpg. Slack space is the difference between the logical file and the physical file. The logical file is the actual data of the file while the physical file is the physical location in which the logical file is stored on the disk. In many cases the physical file is larger then the logical file, with slack space being the difference between the two. Logical files are not larger then physical files.