Advances in Digital Forensics II: (222 IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology)

Digital forensics deals with the acquisition, preservation, examination, analysis and presentation of electronic evidence. Networked computing, wireless communications and portable electronic devices have expanded the role of digital forensics beyond traditional computer crime investigations. Practically every crime now involves some aspect of digital evidence; digital forensics provides the techniques and tools to articulate this evidence. Digital forensics also has myriad intelligence applications. Furthermore, it has a vital role in information assurance – investigations of security breaches yield valuable information that can be used to design more secure systems. Advances in Digital Forensics II 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. The areas of coverage include: Themes and Issues in Digital Forensics Evidence Collecting and Handling Forensic Techniques Operating System and File System Forensics Network Forensics Portable Electronic Device Forensics Linux and File System Forensics Training, Governance and Legal Issues  This book is the second volume in the anual 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-five edited papers from the First Annual IFIP WG 11.9 Conference on Digital Forensics, held at the National Center for Forensic Science, Orlando, Florida, USA in the spring of 2006. Advances in Digital Forensicsis an important resource for researchers, faculty members and graduate students, as well as for practitioners and individuals engaged in research and development efforts for the law enforcement and intelligence communities. Martin S. Olivier is a Professor of Computer Science and co-manager of the Information and Computer Security Architectures Research Group at the University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa. Sujeet Shenoi is the F.P. Walter Professor of Computer Science and a principal with the Center for Information Security at the University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. For more information about the 300 other books in the IFIP series, please visit www.springeronline.com. For more information about IFIP, please visit www.ifip.org.

Table of Contents:
Themes and Issues.- Some Challenges in Digital Forensics.- Evidence Collection and Handling.- Advanced Forensic Format: an Open Extensible Format for Disk Imaging.- File System Support for Digital Evidence Bags.- Remote Upload of Evidence over Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- Applying Machine Trust Models to Forensic Investigations.- Exploring Big Haystacks.- Forensic Techniques.- Countering Hostile Forensic Techniques.- Using PLSI-U To Detect Insider Threats from Email Traffic.- Collusion Detection Using Multimedia Fingerprints.- Authorship Attribution for Electronic Documents.- Linking Individuals to Digital Information.- Use-Misuse Case Driven Analysis of Positive Train Control.- Operating System and File System Forensics.- Mac OS X Forensics.- Detecting Data Concealment Programs Using Passive File System Analysis.- Assessing Trace Evidence Left by Secure Deletion Programs.- Network Forensics.- On the Reliability of Network Eavesdropping Tools.- Active Traffic Capture for Network Forensics.- Logical Traffic Isolation Using Differentiated Services.- Passive Detection of Nat Routers and Client Counting.- Analysis of Web Proxy Logs.- GSM Cell Site Porensics.- An Architecture for SCADA Network Forensics.- Portable Electronic Device Forensics.- Identifying Digital Cameras Using CFA Interpolation.- Forensic Analysis of BIOS Chips.- Training, Governance and Legal Issues.- A Training Tool for Internet Crimes Against Children Cases.- Process Flow Diagrams for Training and Operations.- A Control Framework for Digital Forensics.- Criminal Regulation of Anti-Forensic Tools in Japan.