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

[Chang-Tsun Li]

The contents of the latest issue of:

International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics (IJDCF)

Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association
Volume 1, Issue 2, April-June 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

Special Issue: Selected Papers from E-Forensics 2008

GUEST EDITORIAL PREFACE:
Selected Papers from e-Forensics 2008: The First International 
Conference on Forensic Applications and Techniques in 
Telecommunications, Information and Multimedia

Matthew Sorell, General Chair, e-Forensics 2008

This article discusses the e-forensics conference that attracted a 
specialist crowd of seventy digital forensics researchers and 
practitioners from around the world to hear over thirty papers on a 
diverse range of digital forensic topics. One of the aims of the 
conference was to recognize that digital evidence gathering and analysis 
now goes well beyond conventional data security, audit trails, and data 
recovery. Digital still and video cameras, mobile phones, and combined 
units are now ubiquitous and have wide applications in both crime and 
law enforcement. The Internet offers new opportunities both to commit 
crimes and to combine efforts to solve crime across international borders.



PAPER ONE:
A Model Based Approach to Timestamp Evidence Interpretation

Svein Yngvar Willassen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 
Norway

In this article, timestamps play an important role in digital 
investigations since they are necessary for the correlation of evidence 
from different sources. The use of timestamps as evidence can be 
questionable due to the reference to a clock with unknown adjustment. 
This article addresses this problem by taking a hypothesis based 
approach to timestamp investigation. Historical clock settings can be 
formulated as a clock hypothesis. This hypothesis can be tested for 
consistency with timestamp evidence by constructing a model of actions 
affecting timestamps in the investigated system.


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http://www.infosci-on-demand.com/content/details.asp?ID=29525



PAPER TWO:
Conditions for Effective Detection and Identification of Primary 
Quantisation of Re-Quantized JPEG Images

Matthew James Sorell, University of Adelaide, Australia

This article explores the conditions under which primary quantization 
coefficients can be identified and used for image source identification. 
The choice of quantization table in a JPEG image has previously been 
shown to be an effective discriminator of digital image cameras by 
manufacturer and model series.  When a photograph is recompressed for 
transmission or storage, the image undergoes a secondary stage of 
quantization.  The author indentifies primary quantization artifacts in 
the image coefficients and forensic applications that include matching a 
small range of potential source cameras to an image.

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http://www.infosci-on-demand.com/content/details.asp?ID=29526



PAPER THREE:
Conducting Forensic Investigations of Cyber Attacks on Automobile 
In-Vehicle Networks

Dennis K. Nilsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Ulf E. Larson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

In this article, the authors discuss how to perform a digital forensic 
investigation of an in-vehicle network. An analysis of the current 
features of the network is performed, and an attacker model is 
developed. Based on the attacker model and a set of generally accepted 
forensic investigation principles, the authors derive a list of 
requirements for detection, data collection, and event reconstruction. 
The authors then use the Integrated Digital Investigation Process 
proposed by Carrier and Spafford (2004) as a template to illustrate how 
derived requirements affect an investigation.

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http://www.infosci-on-demand.com/content/details.asp?ID=29527



PAPER FOUR:
Reversible and Blind Database Watermarking Using Difference Expansion

Gaurav Gupta, Macquarie University, Australia
Josef Pieprzyk, Macquarie University, Australia

This article discusses how significant research was recently discovered 
in the field of database watermarking; however, there has not been 
sufficient attention given to the requirement of providing reversibility 
and blindness at the same time. This model has several disadvantages 
over reversible and blind watermarking. The authors propose a 
watermarking scheme to overcome disadvantages and include advantages of 
model scheme.

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http://www.infosci-on-demand.com/content/details.asp?ID=29528



PAPER FIVE:
Methods to Identify Spammers

Tobias Eggendorfer, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany

This paper discusses several methods to identify spammers and 
unsolicited commercial e-mail.  Unsolicited commercial e-mail has become 
a major threat for e-mail communication. Although the degree of 
sophistication of spam filters has increased over time, such filters 
still produce high rates of false positives and false negatives, thereby 
reducing the reliability of e-mail and introducing communication risks 
on their own. Due to more and more complex filtering methods 
implemented, the hardware requirements for mail servers are increasing. 
The author pinpoints that mail filtering has reached its limits and 
seeks for more preventive solutions to fight spam.

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http://www.infosci-on-demand.com/content/details.asp?ID=29529



PAPER SIX:

Dealing with Multiple Truths in Online Virtual Worlds

Jan Sablatnig, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Fritz Lehmann-Grube, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Sven Grottke, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Sabine Cikic, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

This article discusses how virtual environments and online games are 
becoming a major market force. At the same time, the virtual property 
contained in these environments is being traded for real money and 
attaining a real value. The legal issues involved with this virtual 
property have not yet been decided; they will have to be soon. It is 
foreseeable that the next generation of very large virtual worlds will 
carry the possibility of multiple truths existing at the same time. 
Under such circumstances, it will be impossible to physically protect 
virtual property. In order to protect virtual property, virtual 
environment systems will have to conform to certain requirements. The 
authors analyze requirements in order to either prevent cheating or to 
prove a digital offence has transpired.

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http://www.infosci-on-demand.com/content/details.asp?ID=29530



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CALL FOR PAPERS

Mission of IJDCF:

The mission of the International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics 
(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 crimes and forensic 
disciplines that use electronic devices and software for crime 
prevention and investigation. The journal informs a broad 
cross-sectional and multi-disciplinary readership ranging from the 
academic and professional research communities, to industry consultants 
and practitioners. IJDCF publishes a balanced mix of high quality 
theoretical and empirical research articles, case studies, book reviews, 
tutorials, and editorials.



Coverage of IJDCF:


Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) 
the following:
Computational approaches to digital crime preventions
Computer virology
Crime scene imaging
Criminal investigative criteria and standard of procedure on computer crime
Cryptological techniques and tools for crime investigation
Data carving and recovery
Digital document examination
Digital evidence
Digital signal processing techniques for crime investigations
Identity theft and biometrics
Information warfare
Machine learning, data mining, and information retrieval for crime 
prevention and forensics
Malicious codes
Network access control and intrusion detection
Policy, standards, protocols, accreditation, certification, and ethical 
issues related to digital crime and forensics
Practical case studies and reports, legislative developments, and 
limitations, law enforcement
Small digital device forensics (cell phones, smartphone, PDAs, 
audio/video devices, cameras, flash drives, gaming devices, GPS devices, 
etc.)
Steganography and steganalysis
Terrorism knowledge portals and databases
Terrorism related analytical methodologies and software tools
Terrorist incident chronology databases
Watermarking for digital forensics

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