Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime : First International ICST Conference, ICDF2C 2009, Albany, Ny, USA, September 30 - October 2, 2009, Revised Selected Papers

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International ICST Conference, ICDF2C 2009, held September 30 - October 2, 2009, in Albany, NY, USA. Digital forensics and cyber crime is a multidisciplinary area that requires expertise in several areas including law, computer science, finance networking, data mining and criminal justice. The 16 papers present the whole gamut of multimedia and handheld device forensics, financial crimes, cyber crime investigations, forensics and law, cyber security and information warfare. The First International Conference on Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime (ICDF2C) was held in Albany from September 30 to October 2, 2009. The field of digital for- sics is growing rapidly with implications for several fields including law enforcement, network security, disaster recovery and accounting. This is a multidisciplinary area that requires expertise in several areas including, law, computer science, finance, networking, data mining, and criminal justice. This conference brought together pr- titioners and researchers from diverse fields providing opportunities for business and intellectual engagement among attendees. All the conference sessions were very well attended with vigorous discussions and strong audience interest. The conference featured an excellent program comprising high-quality paper pr- entations and invited speakers from all around the world. The first day featured a plenary session including George Philip, President of University at Albany, Harry Corbit, Suprintendent of New York State Police, and William Pelgrin, Director of New York State Office of Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure Coordination. An outstanding keynote was provided by Miklos Vasarhelyi on continuous auditing. This was followed by two parallel sessions on accounting fraud /financial crime, and m- timedia and handheld forensics. The second day of the conference featured a mesm- izing keynote talk by Nitesh Dhanjani from Ernst and Young that focused on psyc- logical profiling based on open source intelligence from social network analysis. The third day of the conference featured both basic and advanced tutorials on open source forensics. Front Matter....Pages - Analysis of Evidence Using Formal Event Reconstruction....Pages 85-98 Data Mining Instant Messaging Communications to Perform Author Identification for Cybercrime Investigations....Pages 99-110 Digital Evidence Retrieval and Forensic Analysis on Gambling Machine....Pages 111-121 Online Acquisition of Digital Forensic Evidence....Pages 122-131 Criminal Defense Challenges in Computer Forensics....Pages 132-138 Detecting and Preventing the Electronic Transmission of Illicit Images and Its Network Performance....Pages 139-150 A Discretionary Access Control Method for Preventing Data Exfiltration (DE) via Removable Devices....Pages 151-160 A Host-Based Approach to BotNet Investigation?....Pages 161-170 Digital Evidence Composition in Fraud Detection....Pages 1-8 iForensics: Forensic Analysis of Instant Messaging on Smart Phones....Pages 9-18 A Survey of Forensic Localization and Tracking Mechanisms in Short-Range and Cellular Networks....Pages 19-32 SMIRK: SMS Management and Information Retrieval Kit....Pages 33-42 Localization and Detection of Vector Logo Image Plagiarism....Pages 43-58 Analysis of Free Download Manager for Forensic Artefacts....Pages 59-68 On the Reliability of Cell Phone Camera Fingerprint Recognition....Pages 69-76 Towards a New Data Mining-Based Approach for Anti-Money Laundering in an International Investment Bank....Pages 77-84 Back Matter....Pages -