CYBERCRIME 2021 - CYBERCRIME INVESTIGATION AND DIGITAL FORENSICS 2021 WORKSHOP

The unprecedented increase in online crimes including identify theft, phishing and social engineering attacks has increased the need for digital forensics. Digital forensics is aimed to collect, analyze, and present digital evidence to prosecute cybercriminals in the court of law. Digital forensics is becoming more challenging due to tremendous increase in ubiquities computing, emergence of new technologies such as cloud computing and with influx of plethora of smart devices.
Finding potential evidence related to a crime is no more an issue due to availability of network logs, chat logs, web forums, emails and social networking posts. The challenge is to precisely analyze large volumes of data in timely manner and collect forensic evidence related to crimes being investigated.
Digital forensics is employed for fraud detection, homeland security, financial scams investigation and for revealing discrepancies in business transactions. The increased computing power, storage capability and the development of innovative machine learning and data analytics techniques are playing a vital role in digital forensics. New legislation and revising exiting laws to adequately cover the new online crimes is imperative. The workshop is covering, but not limited to, the following topics.
Forensic processes and procedures
Digital Forensic: challenges and common practices
Big Data in digital forensics
AI and blockchain in digital forensics
Network and log forensics
Memory forensics
Flash and physical memory forensics
Software and hardware forensic tools
Anonymity and authorship forensics
Small-scale digital devices forensics
Smart toy and gaming console forensics
Messaging forensics
Anti-Forensic and steganography
Cloud forensics: technical, jurisdiction and legal challenges
Digital forensics and cybercrime laws
Role of Big Data in forensic analysis
IoT forensics
Drone forensics
Cybercrime laws and procedures
Digital forensics and social crimes
Digital forensics and financial crimes including money laundering
Digital forensics and cyber stalking and cyberbullying
Digital forensics and homeland security
Digital forensics and operating systems platforms and file system
Digital crimes and international laws
Socio-linguistics and criminology
Email forensics
Digital crime scene investigation
Digital forensics tools testing and evaluation