Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime

This book contains a selection of thoroughly refereed and revised papers from the Third International ICST Conference on Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime, ICDF2C 2011, held October 26-28 in Dublin, Ireland. The field of digital forensics is becoming increasingly important for law enforcement, network security, and information assurance. It is a multidisciplinary area that encompasses a number of fields, including law, computer science, finance, networking, data mining, and criminal justice. The 24 papers in this volume cover a variety of topics ranging from tactics of cyber crime investigations to digital forensic education, network forensics, and the use of formal methods in digital investigations. There is a large section addressing forensics of mobile digital devices.

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The Role of Perception in Age Estimation.- Internet Child Pornography, U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, and the Role of Internet Service Providers.- Law Enforcement 2.0: Regulating the Lawful Interception of Social Media.- All Bot Net: A Need for Smartphone P2P Awareness.- Results of Field Testing Mobile Phone Shielding Devices.- Windows Phone 7 from a Digital Forensics' Perspective.- Forensic Extractions of Data from the Nokia N900.- A Strategy for Testing Metadata Based Deleted File Recovery Tools.- Finding Anomalous and Suspicious Files from Directory Metadata on a Large Corpus.- A Novel Methodology for Malware Intrusion Attack Path Reconstruction.- Performance Issues about Context-Triggered Piecewise Hashing.- Formal Parameterization of Log Synchronization Events within a Distributed Forensic Compute Cloud Database Environment.- Yahoo! Messenger Forensics on Windows Vista and Windows 7.- Finding Forensic Information on Creating a Folder in $LogFile of NTFS.- Evaluating the Forensic Image Generator Generator.