[ISI 2009 (IEEE Intelligence & Security Informatics 2009) -- Dallas, Texas - June 8-11, 2009]
  Workshop on Cybercrime and Computer Forensics
  (WCCF 2009), Dallas, June 8, 2009

Workshop Theme
 

The proliferation of personal computers and ease of fast access to the Internet has enabled today's interconnected and global society. Government agencies, corporations, and individuals all use computers, cell phones, digital cameras, and other electronic devices to produce, store, and transmit data at an increasingly faster rate. One unfortunate consequence of expanded growth in data and interconnectivity is that criminals now have easy access to a large number of potential victims to commit identity thefts, spread virus and spyware, launch Denial-of-Service attacks, and commit other types of malicious acts. Recent survey results conducted by government agencies and IT security industry show annual loss of business revenues due to cybercrime in excess of billions of US dollars. Computer forensics deals with both technical and legal aspects of crime investigation involving digital evidence residing on computers and other types of digital media and devices. 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 2009 Workshop on Cybercrime and Computer Forensics (WCCF 2009) 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