Advances in Digital Forensics VI describes original research results and innovative applications in the discipline of digital forensics. In addition, it highlights some of the major technical and legal issues related to digital evidence and electronic crime investigations. The areas of coverage include: Themes and Issues, Forensic Techniques, Internet Crime Investigations, Live Forensics, Advanced Forensic Techniques, and Forensic Tools. This book is the sixth volume in the annual series produced by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 11.9 on Digital Forensics, an international community of scientists, engineers and practitioners dedicated to advancing the state of the art of research and practice in digital forensics. The book contains a selection of twenty-one edited papers from the Sixth Annual IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics, held at the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, in January 2010.

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Themes and Issues.- A History of Digital Forensics.- Toward a Science of Digital Forensic Evidence Examination.- Using a Local Search Warrant to Acquire Evidence Stored Overseas via the Internet.- An Analysis of the Green Dam Youth Escort Software.- Forensic Techniques.- Forensic Analysis of a PlayStation 3 Console.- A Consistency Study of the Windows Registry.- Forensic Tracking and Mobility Prediction in Vehicular Networks.- A Forensic Readiness Model for Wireless Networks.- Internet Crime Investigations.- Evaluation of Evidence in Internet Auction Fraud Investigations.- Detecting Ponzi and Pyramid Business Schemes in Choreographed Web Services.- Identifying First Seeders in Foxy Peer-to-Peer Networks.- Live Forensics.- Uncertainty in Live Forensics.- Identifying Volatile Data from Multiple Memory Dumps in Live Forensics.- A Compiled Memory Analysis Tool.- Advanced Forensic Techniques.- Data Fingerprinting with Similarity Digests.- Refining Evidence Containers for Provenance and Accurate Data Representation.- Virtual Expansion of Rainbow Tables.- Digital Watermarking of Virtual Machine Images.- A Visualization System for Analyzing Information Leakage.- Forensic Tools.- Forensic Analysis of Popular Chinese Internet Applications.- Data Recovery Function Testing for Digital Forensic Tools.