Workshop Theme:
As personal computers and access to the Internet become more prevalent the modern society is increasingly dependent on the computer and networking technology for storing, processing, and sharing data, and for email and message communication. Cybercrime in the broadest sense refers to any criminal activity in which computer or network plays an essential role, where computers may be used as a tool to commit a crime, as the victim, or may contain evidence of a crime. Examples of cybercrime include: possession of illegal digital materials, spreading virus, worm, or malicious code, email spamming, hacking, ID theft, economic espionage, information warfare, etc. Law enforcement and government agencies, corporate IT officers, and software vendors, have worked together to assemble forensic computing tools, incident response policies, and best practices to train and fight against the uproar of this new crime wave.
The 2008 Pacific Asia Workshop on Cybercrime and Computer Forensics (PACCF 2008) is to provide a forum for professionals in the computer forensics community and IT security industry, forensic computing software vendors, corporate and academic researchers, in an effort to disseminate ideas and experiences related to forensic computing especially in the context of cybercrime investigation. The workshop solicits original contributions of research papers, tool demonstrations, and cases studies; the topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following:
Workshop Topics:
- Computer evidence storage and preservation
- Computer forensics case studies
- Cybercrime case studies
- Cybercrime detection and analysis
- Cyberlaw and legal matters
- Distributed processing and data mining
- E-discovery
- Forensic procedures
- Forensic tool verification and validation
- Integrity of computer evidence and live investigations
- International issues
- Malicious software
- Network forensics
- Portable electronic device forensics
- Professional, ethical and policy issues related to computer forensics
- Software security
- Steganography
- Wireless forensics
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Submission Guidelines:
Long (12 pages) and short (6 pages) papers (in English) may be submitted electronically via the workshop website in February 2008. Required Springer LNCS Microsoft Word/LaTeX templates can be found on the workshop website.
- Submissions due
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February 20, 2008 * |
- Notification of acceptance
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March 14, 2008 * |
- Camera-ready copy due
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March 28, 2008 * |
- Workshop Date
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June 17, 2008 * |
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