New Technologies for Digital Crime and Forensics: Devices, Applications, and Software

Reflecting the challenges of an era of deep dependence on, and connection to, digital communication technology, this collection of twenty articles on computer crime and digital forensics highlights current scholarship in a variety of fields related to cyber-crime. Divided into four sections covering digital evidence, methodologies for combating Internet-based crime, content protection through the use of extrinsic data and pattern recognition and signal processing techniques in digital forensics, individual papers address such topics as privacy in Voice over IP networks, security weaknesses in forensic software, time-stamp evidence interpretation, database watermarking, digital image matching and biometrics for online signature recognition. Papers include abstracts, illustrations, notes and references and a volume-wide compilation of reading resources is provided. Contributors include academics in computer science, engineering and security fields from universities around the world. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)