Paul Wright January 4th, 2008
Its good to have time to do some reading. If you are interested in DB forensics I recommend some of the work from Arizona University listed below including a new thesis on the subject of database forensics. http://www.cs.arizona.edu/projects/tau/tbdb/MelindaMalmgrenThesis.pdf
as well as these preceding papers..
Kyri Pavlou and Richard. T. Snodgrass, “The Pre-images of Bitwise AND Functions in Forensic Analysis,” TimeCenter TR 87, October, 2006. [.pdf]
Kyri Pavlou and Richard T. Snodgrass, “Forensic Analysis of Database Tampering,” in Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), pages 109-120, Chicago, June, 2006. (pdf)
Richard T. Snodgrass, Stanley Yao and Christian Collberg, “Tamper Detection in Audit Logs,” In Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Databases, Toronto, Canada, August–September 2004, pp. 504–515. (pdf)