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Practically every crime now involves some aspect of digital evidence. This is the most recent volume in the Advances in Digital Forensics series. It describes original research results and innovative applications in the emerging discipline of digital forensics. In addition, it highlights some of the major technical and legal issues related to digital evidence and electronic crime investigations.
This book contains a selection of twenty-eight edited papers from the Fourth Annual IFIP WG 11.9 Conference on Digital Forensics, held at Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan in the spring of 2008.
List of contents
Themes and Issues.- When is Digital Evidence Forensically Sound?.- Applying Traditional Forensic Taxonomy to Digital Forensics.- Evidence Recovery.- Recovering Data from Failing Floppy Disks.- Extracting Evidence Using Google Desktop Search.- Evaluation of Registry Data Removal by Shredder Programs.- Evidence Integrity.- Using Boot Control to Preserve the Integrity of Evidence.- Hypothesis-Based Investigation of Digital Timestamps.- Improving Disk Sector Integrity Using K-Dimension Hashing.- Evidence Management.- Class-Aware Similarity Hashing for Data Classification.- Applying Topic Modeling to Forensic Data.- Forensic Techniques.- Forensic Analysis of Volatile Instant Messaging.- Timely Rootkit Detection During Live Response.- Network Forensics.- Identifying and Analyzing Web Server Attacks.- Forensic Web Services.- Detecting Remote Exploits Using Data Mining.- Portable Electronic Device Forensics.- Using Sensor Dirt for Toolmark Analysis of Digital Photographs.- A New Feature-Based Method for Source Camera Identification.- Data Recovery from Windows CE Based Handheld Devices.- Legal Issues Pertaining to the Use of Cell Phone Data.- Event Data Recorder Forensics.- Protection and Recovery of Railroad Event Recorder Data.- Automobile Event Data Recorder Forensics.- Novel Investigative Techniques.- Reasoning About Evidence Using Bayesian Networks.- Inferring Sources of Leaks in Document Management Systems.- Image Background Matching for Identifying Suspects.- Forensic Tools.- An Evidence Acquisition Tool for Live Systems.- Time Analysis of Hard Drive Imaging Tools.- Fusion of Steganalysis Systems Using Bayesian Model Averaging.- A Virtual Digital Forensics Laboratory.
Summary
Practically every crime now involves some aspect of digital evidence. This is the most recent volume in the Advances in Digital Forensics series. It describes original research results and innovative applications in the emerging discipline of digital forensics. In addition, it highlights some of the major technical and legal issues related to digital evidence and electronic crime investigations.
This book contains a selection of twenty-eight edited papers from the Fourth Annual IFIP WG 11.9 Conference on Digital Forensics, held at Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan in the spring of 2008.
