[DFSci] TOC of the International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics (IJDCF)

[Chang-Tsun Li]

Dear colleagues
 
Please accept my apology if you receive multiple copies of this message.
 
I am pleased to announce the avalability of the inaugural issue of 
International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics (IJDCF)
Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association
Volume 1, Issue 1, January-March 2009
Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically
ISSN: 1941-6210 EISSN: 1941-6229
Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA
www.igi-global.com/ijdcf
 
Editor-in-Chief: Chang-Tsun Li, University of Warwick, UK
 
PAPER ONE: 
 
Providing Cryptographic Security and Evidentiary Chain-of-Custody with the Advanced Forensic Format, Library, and Tools
 
Simson L. Garfinkel, Naval Postgraduate School and Harvard University, USA
 
This article presents improvements in the advanced forensics format library version 3 that provide for digital signatures and other cryptographic protections for digital evidence, allowing an investigator to establish a reliable chain-of-custody for electronic evidence from the crime scene to the court room. No other system for handling and storing electronic evidence currently provides such capabilities. This article discusses implementation details, user level commands, and the AFFLIB programmer’s API. 
 
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http://www.igi-global.com/articles/details.asp?id=33000
 
PAPER TWO: 
 
Locally Square Distortion and Batch Steganographic Capacity
 
Andrew D. Ker, Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK
 
This article shows how a fundamental question of the steganography problem has determined the amount of data which can be hidden undetectably. Its answer is of direct importance to the embedder, but also aids a forensic investigator in bounding the size of payload which might be communicated. The authors follow up the implications when a payload is to be spread amongst multiple cover objects, and give asymptotic results about the maximum secure payload. Two embedding scenarios are distinguished: embedding in a fixed finite batch of covers, and continuous embedding in an infinite stream. The steganographic capacity, as a function of the number of objects, is sublinear and strictly asymptotically lower in the second case. This work consolidates and extends our previous results on batch and sequential steganographic capacity.
 
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http://www.igi-global.com/articles/details.asp?id=33001
 
PAPER THREE: 
 
Unexpected Artifacts in a Digital Photograph
 
Matthew J. Sorell, University of Adelaide, Australia
 
This article investigates an unexpected phenomenon observed in a recent digital photograph, in which the logo of a non-sponsoring sports company appears on the jersey of a famous football player in just one of a sequence of images.  After eliminating deliberate image tampering as a cause, a hypothetical sequence of circumstances is proposed, concerning the lighting, dominant colours, infrared sensitivity, optical pre-processing, image enhancement and JPEG compression.  The hypotheses are tested using a digital SLR camera.  The investigation is of interest in a forensic context, firstly as a possible explanation in case such a photograph is observed, and secondly to be able to confirm or refute claims of such artifacts put forward claiming that a hypothetical image is not really what it claims to be.
 
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http://www.igi-global.com/articles/details.asp?id=33002
 
PAPER FOUR:
 
Efficient Forensic Analysis for Anonymous Attack in Secure Content Distribution
 
Hongxia Jin, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
 
This article discusses a forensic technology that is used to defend against piracy for secure multimedia content distribution. In particular we are interested in anonymous rebroadcasting type of attack where the attackers redistribute the per-content encrypting key or decrypted plain content. Traitor tracing technology can be used to defend against this attack by identifying the original users (called traitors) involved in the rebroadcasting piracy. While traitor tracing has been a long standing cryptographic problem that has attracted extensive research, existing academia researches have overlooked many practical concerns in a real world setting. The authors have overcome many practical concerns in order to bring a theoretical traitor tracing solution to practice. The main focus of this article is on designing efficient forensic analysis algorithms under various practical considerations that were missing from existing work. The efficiency of the
 forensic analysis algorithms is the enabling factor that ultimately made the first time large scale commercialization of a traitor tracing technology in the context of new industry standard on content protection for next generation high-definition DVDs. 
 
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http://www.igi-global.com/articles/details.asp?id=33003
 
PAPER FIVE:
 
Protection of Digital Mammograms on PACSs Using Data Hiding Techniques
 
Chang-Tsun Li, University of Warwick, UK
Yue Li, University of Warwick, UK
Chia-Hung Wei, Ching Yun University, Taiwan
 
Picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) are typical information systems, which may be undermined by unauthorized users who have illegal access to the systems. This article proposes a role-based access control framework comprising two main components – a content-based steganographic module and a reversible watermarking module, to protect mammograms on PACSs. Within this framework, the content-based steganographic module is to hide patients’ textual information into mammograms without changing the important details of the pictorial contents and to verify the authenticity and integrity of the mammograms. The reversible watermarking module, capable of masking the contents of mammograms, is for preventing unauthorized users from viewing the contents of the mammograms. The scheme is compatible with mammogram transmission and storage on PACSs. 
 
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http://www.igi-global.com/articles/details.asp?id=33004
 
PAPER SIX:
 
Voice Over IP: Privacy and Forensic Implications
 
Jill Slay, University of South Australia, Australia
Matthew Simon, University of South Australia, Australia
 
This article discusses experimental work carried out to explore methods by which electronic evidence may be collected from systems where VoIP conversations play an important role in suspected criminal activity or communications.  With the tremendous growth in popularity and bandwidth of the Internet, VoIP technology has emerged that allows phone calls to be routed over Internet infrastructure rather than the traditional Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) infrastructure. The issues faced by law enforcement authorities concerning VoIP are very different from that of traditional telephony.  Wiretapping is not applicable to VoIP calls and packet capturing is negated by encryption. 
 
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http://www.igi-global.com/articles/details.asp?id=33005
 
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For full copies of the above articles, check for this issue of the International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensic (IJDCF) in your institution's library.  This journal is also included in the IGI Global aggregated "InfoSci-Journals" database: www.infosci-journals.com. If your library is not currently subscribed to IJDCF, recommend IJDCF subscription http://www.igi-global.com/journals/details.asp?ID=7828&mode=recommend to your library or "InfoSci-Journals" to your librarian.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Mission of IJDCF: 
Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible publication in the International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics (IJDCF). The primary objective of IJDCF is to provide and foster a forum for advancing research and development of the theory and practice of digital crime prevention and forensics. It addresses a broad range of digital crime and forensics disciplines that use electronic devices and software’s for crime prevention and investigation. The journal strives to publish articles in a wide spectrum of topics that would inform a broad cross-sectional and multi-disciplinary readership ranging from the academic and professional research communities to industry consultants and practitioners, and seeks to publish a balanced mix of high quality theoretical or empirical research articles, case studies, book reviews, tutorials, and editorials.
 
Coverage of IJDCF:
This journal will cover a range of topics related to actor-network theory (ANT). These topics will include the development of actor-network theory itself, as well as case studies of its use to assist in the explanation of various socio-technical phenomena. It will also include topics relating to technological innovation; both those using actor-network theory as an explanatory framework and those using other approaches. Possible topics include, but are not restricted to:
Among topics to be included (but not limited) are the following: 
Digital signal processing techniques for crime investigations 
Cryptological techniques and tools for crime investigation 
Cryptological techniques and tools for crime investigation 
Watermarking for digital forensics 
Steganography and steganalysis 
Data carving and recovery 
Machine learning, data mining and information retrieval for crime prevention and forensics 
Computational approaches to digital crime preventions 
Digital evidence 
Crime scene imaging 
Identity theft and biometrics 
Digital document examination 
Small digital device forensics (cell phones, smartphone, PDAs, audio/video devices, cameras, flash drives, gaming devices, GPS devices, etc.) 
Network access control and intrusion detection 
Malicious codes 
Computer virology 
Information warfare 
Policy, standards, protocols, accreditation and certification, ethical issues related to digital crime and forensics 
Criminal investigative criteria and standard of procedure on computer crime 
Practical case studies and reports, legislative developments and limitations, law enforcement 
Terrorism related analytical methodologies and software tools 
Terrorism knowledge portals and databases 
Terrorist incident chronology databases 
 
Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission guidelines at www.igi-global.com/ijdcf.
 
 All inquiries and submissions should be sent to:
Editor-in-Chief: Chang-Tsun Li at ijdcf at dcs.warwick.ac.uk

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Dr Chang-Tsun Li 
Department of Computer Science, 
University of Warwick, 
Coventry CV4 7AL, UK 
Tel: +44 24 7657 3794 
Fax: +44 24 7657 3024 
E-mail: ctli at dcs.warwick.ac.uk 
http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/ ~ctli 
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