Privacy issues have always been a major concern in computer forensics and security and in case of any investigation whether it is pertaining to computer or not always privacy issues appear. To enable privacy’s protection in the physical world we need the law that should be legislated, but in a digital world by rapidly growing of technology and using the digital devices more and more that genera...

Network forensics enables investigation and identification of network attacks through the retrieved digital content. The proliferation of smartphones and the cost-effective universal data access through cloud has made Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) a congenital target for network attacks. However, confines in carrying out forensics in MCC is interrelated with the autonomous cloud hosting companie...

1. Abstract Current trends in computing and communications technologies are putting vast amounts of disk storage and abundant bandwidth in the hands of ordinary computer users. These trends will very soon completely overwhelm digital forensics investigators attempting investigations using a single workstation as a platform. The symptoms: Performing simple preprocessing operations such as indexi...

This document presents an overview of the most common memory forensics techniques used in the acquisition and analysis of a system’s volatile memory. Memory forensics rose from obscurity in 2005 in response to a challenge issued by the Digital Forensics Research Workshop (DFRWS). Since then, investigators and researchers alike have begun to recognise the important role that memory forensics can...

Cloud computing is a relatively new technology which is quickly becoming one of the most important technological advances for computer science. This technology has had a significant growth in recent years. It is now more affordable and cloud platforms are becoming more stable. Businesses are successfully migrating their systems to a cloud infrastructure, obtaining technological and economic ben...

Best practices in digital forensics demand the use of write-blockers when creating forensic images of digital media, and this has been a core tenet of computer forensics training for decades. The practice is so ingrained that the integrity of images created without a write-blocker are immediately suspect. This paper describes a research framework that compares forensic images acquired with and ...

Forensic analysis in the context of physical evidence is a relatively mature field. The computerization of society has led to the emergence of digital forensics and now the popularity of cloud computing has sparked interest into cloud forensics. Our goal in this paper is to enable cloud forensics, by using the theory of abstraction layers to describe the purpose and goals of virtual machine (VM...

Digital forensics investigation is a long and tedious process for an investigator in general. There are many tools that investigators must consider, both proprietary and open source. Forensics investigators must choose the best tool available on the market for their cases to make sure they do not overlook any evidence resides in suspect device within a reasonable time frame. This is however har...

Graphic design applications are often used for the editing and design of digital art. The same applications can be used for creating counterfeit documents like identity documents (IDs), driver’s licenses or passports among others. However the use of any graphic design application leaves behind traces of digital information which can be used during a digital forensic investigation. Current digit...

Recent papers have urged the need for new forensic techniques and tools able to investigate anti-forensics methods, and have promoted automation of live investigation. Such techniques and tools are called proactive forensic approaches, i.e., approaches that can deal with digitally investigating an incident while it occurs. To come up with such an approach, a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) w...