E-forensics 2010

Our society has entered an era where commerce activities, business transactions and government services have been, and more and more of them will be, conducted and offered over open networks such as Internet, which has led to new opportunities for criminals and new challenges for law enforcement. For instance, Voice over IP raises significant challenges for call intercept and route tracing;information systems are becoming overwhelmingly large and the challenge of information source identification requires new sophisticated tools; consumer multimedia devices, are increasingly becoming the tools to create potentially illegal content. At the same time, the scientific gathering and investigation of evidence at a crime scene push towards a variety of fascinating digital techniques.
 

As a matter of fact, electronic telecommunications, information technology, consumer devices and sophisticated software are creating new opportunities for both criminals and forensic investigators, thus this conference aims to bring together the research contributions in the development of tools and techniques which assist in the investigation of potentially illegal activity associated with electronic communication and electronic devices, and investigative practice and requirements for presentation of evidence in court are to be considered as the underlying themes. This might include discovery, analysis, handling and storage of digital evidence; meeting the legal burden of proof; and the establishment of the forensic chain of evidence.