[AISWorld] CFP: IJDCF Journal Special Issue "Cybercrime Investigation and Digital Forensics"

[Patrick Hung]

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Call For Papers

Journal Special Issue "Cybercrime Investigation and Digital Forensics"
The International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics (IJDCF)
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URL: https://www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers-special/international-journal-digital-crime-forensics/1112


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 goal of this special issue is to present both novel and industrial solutions to challenging technical issues as well as to explore the challenges faced by researchers, practitioners, and non-technical professionals in digital and cybercrime investigation. This special issue will share related practical experiences to benefit the reader, and will provide a forum for law enforcement, judiciary and industry to share their problems and challenges with people from academia and industry for possible solution to meet their needs. This will promote collaboration between industry, academia and R&D and will help the collaborating partners to benefit from each other’s resources and expertise in the domain. This special issue covers related topics, but not limited to:
• Forensic processes and procedures
• Digital forensic: challenges and common practices
• Network and log forensics
• Memory forensics
• Flash and physical memory forensics
• Software and hardware forensic tools
• 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
• Internet of Thing (IoT) forensics
• Drone forensics
• Cybercrime laws and procedures
• Digital forensics: social crimes
• Digital forensics: financial crimes including money laundering
• Digital forensics: cyber stalking and cyber bullying
• Digital forensics: homeland security
• Digital forensics: 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
• Case studies


Important Dates
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Submission Deadline: 18th December, 2017
Acceptance Notification: 18th February, 2017
Camera Ready: 18th April, 2018

Please go to check the submission details at https://www.igi-global.com/submission/


Guest Editors
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Farkhund Iqbal
College of Technological Innovation
Zayed University, UAE
E-mail: farkhund.iqbal at zu.ac.ae

Patrick C. K. Hung
Faculty of Business and Information Technology
University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
E-mail: patrick.hung at uoit.ca

Benjamin C. M. Fung
School of Information Studies
McGill University, Canada
E-mail: ben.fung at mcgill.ca




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