Advancements in digital imaging technologies has elevated many new issues and challenges concerning the authenticity and integrity of digital images. Digital images can now be easily captured and edited for creating forgery without leaving any obvious clues of such operations. These capabilities undermine the credibility of digital images in all aspects. Digital image forensics is has gained tr...

The increasing usage of databases in the storage of critical and sensitive information in many organizations has led to an increase in the rate at which databases are exploited in computer crimes. Databases are often manipulated to facilitate crimes and as such are usually of interest during many investigations as useful information relevant to the investigation can be found therein. A branch o...

Like so many things in our just-in-time world, this book was sent to me just as one of my colleagues was looking for a text for a course he was developing in computer forensics laboratory operations and management. The two lead authors—and contributing author P. Swinburne—bring decades of experience in military and law enforcement environments in Australia and the UK to these topics. The book p...

Most forensics models focus on the investigative process and its different phases and are characterized by a rather informal and intuitive approach. When a formalized process been introduced, in 1984, a new and improved computer forensics investigation processes have been developed. A digital forensics investigation is a process that used science and technology to examine digital objects and te...

While still relatively young the use of digital forensics in criminal investigations is increasing. This has prompted law enforcement agencies to look at developing more efficient techniques for investigating digital media. Triage tools are seen as the next generation of digital forensics investigatory technologies. However, such tools are still lacking basic decision support mechanisms, and st...

Research in virtualization technology has gained significant momentum in recent years, which brings not only opportunities to the forensic community, but challenges as well. In this paper, we discuss the potential roles of virtualization in the area of digital forensics and conduct an investigation on the recent progresses which utilize the virtualization techniques to support modern computer f...

We are developing a new undergraduate certificate program in digital forensics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. To create a curriculum consistent with the fundamentally multidisciplinary nature of the field of digital forensics, we assembled a curriculum development team that includes domain experts from the fields of computer science, law, social science, psychology, and acco...

Digital forensics can be a difficult discipline to teach effectively because of its interdisciplinary nature, closely integrating law and computer science. Prior research in Physics and Computer Science has shown that the traditional lecture approach is inadequate for the task of provoking students’ thought-processes and systematically engaging them in problem-solving during class. Peer instruc...

Digital Forensics is a fairly new discipline, which due to the heavy overlap with the computer science and information technology is now categorized within the computer science field. On the other hand, the legal side of digital forensics is mainly coming from the traditional forensics procedures and the law. Therefore, the current models are modeling the process of digital investigation to be ...

This paper focuses on Federal law as it relates to consent to search relating to Fourth Amendment privacy in the practice of Digital Forensics. In particular, Digital Examiners should be aware of how decisions in Federal Court may impact their ability to acquire evidence in both civil and criminal settings. Digital Forensics, being a relatively new field, is particularly subject to change as ca...