Mobile device forensics is a subdivision of traditional digital forensics to recover digital evidence or data from a mobile device including smart phones and tablets. With a recent proliferation of smart phones, the demand of mobile device forensics is expected to be increased considerably. This paper explores currently available techniques and resources needed for mobile device forensics and p...

Digital forensics course offerings are being added to various curricula at colleges and universities world-wide at an amazing pace. This is due to significant student interest in the topic and job market demands for such skill sets. However, academia is struggling to establish a firm knowledge base and offer quality digital forensics education to its students. We contend that the identification...

As threats against digital assets have risen and there is necessitate exposing and eliminating hidden risks and threats. The ability of exposing is called “cyber forensics.” Cyber Penetrators have adopted more sophistical tools and tactics that endanger the operations of the global phenomena. These attackers are also using anti-forensic techniques to hide evidence of a cyber crime. Cyber forens...

With the development of Internet and information technology, the digital crimes are also on the rise. Computer forensics is an emerging research area that applies computer investigation and analysis techniques to help detection of these crimes and gathering of digital evidence suitable for presentation in courts. This paper provides foundational concept of computer forensics, outlines various p...

Today, digital forensics (also known as computer forensics) already is a common instrument in forensic investigations. It is due to its massive presence in the media that digital forensics more and more comes to the public mind, too. However, today’s practices and methods are of a more pragmatic kind and a comparison with other forensic sciences shows clear deficits. Those deficits can be divid...

With the explosion of digital crime, digital forensics is more often applied. The digital forensic discipline developed rather rapidly, but up to date very little international standardisation with regard to processes, procedures or management has been developed. This article provides a brief overview of the current international standards in the digital forensics domain. It describes the neces...

Cloud computing and digital forensics are emerging fields of technology. Unlike traditional digital forensics where the target environment can be almost completely isolated, acquired and can be under the investigators control; in cloud environments, the distribution of computation and storage poses unique and complex challenges to the investigators. Recently, the term “cloud forensics” has an i...

In this paper we posit that current investigative techniques—particularly as deployed by law enforcement, are becoming unsuitable for most types of crime investigation. The growth in cybercrime and the complexities of the types of the cybercrime coupled with the limitations in time and resources, both computational and human, in addressing cybercrime put an increasing strain on the ability of d...