New Technologies for Digital Crime and Forensics: Devices, Applications, and Software

New Technologies for Digital Crime and Forensics: Devices, Applications, and Software

Chang-Tsun Li, Anthony T. S. Ho

Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 374

ISBN13: 9781609605155|ISBN10: 1609605152|EISBN13: 9781609605162

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-515-5

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Li, Chang-Tsun, and Anthony T. S. Ho, eds. New Technologies for Digital Crime and Forensics: Devices, Applications, and Software. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2011. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-515-5

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Central to understanding and combating digital crime is the ability to develop new methods for the collection and analysis of electronic evidence.

New Technologies for Digital Crime and Forensics: Devices, Applications, and Software provides theories, methods, and studies on digital crime prevention and investigation, which are useful to a broad range of researchers and communities. This field is under constant evolution as the nature of digital crime continues to change and new methods for tracking and preventing digital attacks are developed.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Preface

Chapters

Digital Evidence

Chapter 1

Providing Cryptographic Security and Evidentiary Chain-of-Custody with the Advanced Forensic Format, Library, and Tools (pages 1-28)

Simson L. Garfinkel

This article presents improvements in the Advanced Forensics Format Library version 3 that provide for digital signatures and other cryptographic protections for digital evidence, allowing an investigator to establish a reliable...

Chapter 2

Voice Over IP: Privacy and Forensic Implications (pages 29-41)

Jill Slay, Matthew Simon

With the tremendous growth in popularity and bandwidth of the Internet, VoIP technology has emerged that allows phone calls to be routed over Internet infrastructure rather than the traditional Public Switched Telephone Network...

Chapter 3

Volatile Memory Collection and Analysis for Windows Mission-Critical Computer Systems (pages 42-59)

Antonio Savoldi, Paolo Gubian

Most enterprises rely on the continuity of service guaranteed by means of a computer system infrastructure, which can often be based on the Windows operating system family. For such a category of systems, which might be referred to...

Chapter 4

Evidentiary Implications of Potential Security Weaknesses in Forensic Software (pages 60-70)

Chris K. Ridder

Computer forensic software is used by lawyers and law enforcement to collect and preserve data in a “forensic image” so that it can be analyzed without changing the original media, and to preserve the chain of custody of the...

Combating Internet-Based Crime

Chapter 5

Methods to Identify Spammers (pages 72-86)

Tobias Eggendorfer

Unsolicited commercial email has become a major threat for email communication. Although the degree of sophistication of spam filters has increased over time, such filters still produce high rates of false positives and false...

Chapter 6

Spam Image Clustering for Identifying Common Sources of Unsolicited Emails (pages 87-103)

Chengcui Zhang, Xin Chen, Wei-Bang Chen, Lin Yang, Gary Warner

In this article, we propose a spam image clustering approach that uses data mining techniques to study the image attachments of spam emails with the goal to help the investigation of spam clusters or phishing groups. Spam images are...

Chapter 7

A Model Based Approach to Timestamp Evidence Interpretation (pages 104-114)

Svein Yngvar Willassen

Timestamps play an important role in digital investigations, since they are necessary for the correlation of evidence from different sources. Use of timestamps as evidence can be questionable due to the reference to a clock with...

Chapter 8

Conducting Forensic Investigations of Cyber Attacks on Automobile In-Vehicle Networks (pages 115-128)

Dennis K. Nilsson, Ulf E. Larson

The introduction of a wireless gateway as an entry point to the automobile in-vehicle network reduces the effort of performing diagnostics and firmware updates considerably. Unfortunately, the same gateway also allows cyber attacks...

Chapter 9

Dealing with Multiple Truths in Online Virtual Worlds (pages 129-142)

Jan Sablatnig, Fritz Lehmann-Grube, Sven Grottke, Sabine Cikic

Virtual environments and online games are becoming a major market force. At the same time, the virtual property contained in these environments is being traded for real money and thus attains a real value. Although the legal issues...

Content Protection through the Use of Extrinsic Data

Chapter 10

Locally Square Distortion and Batch Steganographic Capacity (pages 144-160)

Andrew D. Ker

A fundamental question of the steganography problem is to determine the amount of data which can be hidden undetectably. Its answer is of direct importance to the embedder, but also aids a forensic investigator in bounding the size...

Chapter 11

Efficient Forensic Analysis for Anonymous Attack in Secure Content Distribution (pages 161-176)

Hongxia Jin

This article discusses a forensic technology that is used to defend against piracy for secure multimedia content distribution. In particular we are interested in anonymous rebroadcasting type of attack where the attackers...

Chapter 12

Protection of Digital Mammograms on PACSs Using Data Hiding Techniques (pages 177-189)

Chang-Tsun Li, Yue Li, Chia-Hung Wei

Picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) are typical information systems, which may be undermined by unauthorized users who have illegal access to the systems. This article proposes a role-based access control framework...

Chapter 13

Reversible and Blind Database Watermarking Using Difference Expansion (pages 190-201)

Gaurav Gupta, Josef Pieprzyk

There has been significant research in the field of database watermarking recently. However, there has not been sufficient attention given to the requirement of providing reversibility (the ability to revert back to original relation...

Chapter 14

Medical Images Authentication through Repetitive Index Modulation Based Watermarking (pages 202-209)

Chang-Tsun Li, Yue Li

In this work we propose a Repetitive Index Modulation (RIM) based digital watermarking scheme for authentication and integrity verification of medical images. Exploiting the fact that many types of medical images have significant...

Application of Pattern Recognition and Signal Processing Techniques to Digital Forensics

Chapter 15

Unexpected Artifacts in a Digital Photograph (pages 211-223)

Matthew J. Sorell

This chapter investigates an unexpected phenomenon observed in a recent digital photograph, in which the logo of a non-sponsoring sports company appears on the jersey of a famous football player in just one of a sequence of images....

Chapter 16

Conditions for Effective Detection and Identification of Primary Quantization of Re-Quantized JPEG Images (pages 224-238)

Matthew J. Sorell

The choice of Quantization Table in a JPEG image has previously been shown to be an effective discriminator of digital image cameras by manufacturer and model series. When a photograph is recompressed for transmission or storage...

Chapter 17

Dynamic Structural Statistical Model Based Online Signature Verification (pages 239-256)

Yan Chen, Xiaoqing Ding, Patrick S.P. Wang

In this article, a new dynamic structural statistical model based online signature verification algorithm is proposed, in which a method for statistical modeling the signature’s characteristic points is presented. Dynamic time...

Chapter 18

Efficient Image Matching using Local Invariant Features for Copy Detection (pages 257-276)

H.R. Chennamma, Lalitha Rangarajan, M.S. Rao

Retrieval based approach has recently emerged as an attractive option for image copy detection. The Content Based Copy Detection (CBCD) can be treated as a restricted case of near duplicate image detection. Near duplicate images can...

Chapter 19

Reliable Motion Detection, Location and Audit in Surveillance Video (pages 277-289)

Samaan Poursoltan, Matthew J. Sorell

The review of video captured by fixed surveillance cameras is a time consuming, tedious, expensive and potentially unreliable human process, but of very high evidentiary value. Two key challenges stand out in such a task; ensuring...

Chapter 20

Cancellable Biometrics for On-line Signature Recognition (pages 290-315)

Emanuele Maiorana, Patrizio Campisi, Alessandro Neri

With the widespread diffusion of biometrics-based recognition systems, there is an increasing awareness of the risks associated with the use of biometric data. Significant efforts are therefore being dedicated to the design of...

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