Volkswagen Car Entertainment System Forensics

Vehicles are fast becoming another importantsource of digital evidence in a criminal investigation.Traditionally, when a vehicle is involved in a crime scene (e.g.drink driving), the investigators focus on the acquisition of DNA, fingerprints and other identifying materials, usually non digitalin nature. However, modern day cars, particularly smart ordriverless cars, store a wealth of digital information, such asrecent destinations, favourite locations, routes, personal datasuch as call logs, contact lists, SMS messages, pictures, andvideos. In this paper, we describe some challenges associated withvehicle data forensics, an understudied area. Next, we presentour case study on forensic acquisition and data analysis of anentertainment system on a Volkswagen car.