Cyber 2016 - Special Issue on Cyber Crime

Security and Communication Networks journal, Wiley, Impact Factor: 0.433
Special Issue on Cyber Crime
Link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28...
Important Dates:
- Manuscript submission: 20th October 2015
- Acceptance/rejection notification: 1 January 2016
- Expected publication: 2016
Overview
Today's world's societies are becoming more and more dependent on open
networks such as the Internet - where commercial activities, business
transactions and government services are realized. This has led to the
fast development of new cyber threats and numerous information security
issues which are exploited by cyber criminals. The inability to provide
trusted secure services in contemporary computer network technologies
has a tremendous socio-economic impact on global enterprises as well as
individuals.
Moreover, the frequently occurring international frauds impose the
necessity to conduct the investigation of facts spanning across multiple
international borders. Such examination is often subject to different
jurisdictions and legal systems. A good illustration of the above being
the Internet, which has made it easier to perpetrate traditional crimes.
It has acted as an alternate avenue for the criminals to conduct their
activities, and launch attacks with relative anonymity. The increased
complexity of the communications and the networking infrastructure is
making investigation of the crimes difficult. Traces of illegal digital
activities are often buried in large volumes of data, which are hard to
inspect with the aim of detecting offences and collecting evidence.
Nowadays, the digital crime scene functions like any other network, with
dedicated administrators functioning as the first responders.
This poses new challenges for law enforcement policies and forces the
computer societies to utilize digital forensics to combat the increasing
number of cybercrimes. Forensic professionals must be fully prepared in
order to be able to provide court admissible evidence. To make these
goals achievable, forensic techniques should keep pace with new technologies
The aim of this special issue is to bring together the research
accomplishments provided by the researchers from academia and the
industry. The other goal is to show the latest research results in the
field of digital forensics and to present the development of tools and
techniques which assist the investigation process of potentially illegal
cyber activity. We encourage prospective authors to submit related
distinguished research papers on the subject of both: theoretical
approaches and practical case reviews.
This special issue presents some of the most relevant ongoing research
in cyber crime. Topics include, but are not limited to the following:
? Cyber crimes: evolution, new trends and detection/prevention
? Cyber crime related investigations
? Network forensics: tools and applications, case studies and best practices
? Privacy issues in network forensics
? Social networking forensics
? Network traffic analysis, traceback and attribution
? Network incidents response, investigation and evidence handling
? Identification, authentication and collection of digital evidence in
networking environment
? Anti-forensic techniques and methods
? Stealthiness improving techniques: information hiding,
steganography/steganalysis and covert/subliminal channels
? Watermarking and intellectual property theft
? Network anomalies detection
Proposed special issue will serve as a platform to expose a range of
approaches to the cybercrime problem, set out a variety of relationships
between policy and the communication networks, and set the stage for
further research towards normative and theoretical discourse around the
constantly moving target that is cybercrime.
Besides normal submissions, the selected best papers of the IWCC 2015
(International Workshop on Cyber Crime) are invited to this special
issue. There should be at least 70% difference between the
extended/revised paper and workshop paper.
Guest Editors:
Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Krzysztof Szczypiorski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Zoran Duric, George Mason University, USA
Dengpan Ye, Wuhan University, China
Instructions for Authors
Original and high quality contributions that are not currently under
review by other journals or peer-reviewed conferences are sought. The
submitted papers should be formatted according to the journal style. For
more detailed information concerning the requirements for submission,
please refer to the journal homepage and Instructions for Authors
section at:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28...
All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted to
SCN through the online submission system available at
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/scn. During the submission process
authors should identify that the paper is for the special issue “Cyber
Crime”.
All papers will be rigorously reviewed based on their originality, high
scientific quality, organization, clarity of writing, conclusions and
relevance to this Special Issue. The manuscripts will be accepted or
rejected in line with the usual standards of SCN.