Call for Papers: ICDF2C 2010: International ICST Conference on Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime

A call for papers and a call for presentations — both having submission deadline of 1 June 2010 — have been issued for ICDF2C 2010: The 2nd International ICST Conference on Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime, to be held 4-6 October 2010, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Papers are invited on the following topics:

• “Financial Crimes (Money Laundering, Fraud, Identity Theft)
• Forensic Accounting (Accounting Fraud, Continuous Assurance, etc.)
• Digital Forensics Training & Education
• Digital Forensics Process and Procedures
• Digital Forensics & Law (e-Discovery & Litigation Support, Incident Response, Evidence Handling)
• Cyber Crime Investigations
• Cyber Security & Information Warfare
• Computer/Handheld Device & Multimedia Forensics (Tools / Techniques)
• Forensics Standardization, Accreditation
• Cyber Criminal Psychology and Profiling
• Software piracy investigation
• Cyber culture and cyber terrorism”

Presentations are invited on the following topics:

• “Computer Forensics
• Electronic Money Laundering
• Forensic Accounting
• Watermarking & Intellectual Property Theft
• Incident Response & Evidence Handling
• Network Data Analysis
• Data Analytics, Mining & Visualization
• Identity Theft & Online Fraud
• Mobile Device Forensics
• Digital Forensics and the Law
• Data Log Analysis
• Forensics Training & Education
• Natural Language Processing
• Cyber Crime Investigations
• Continuous Assurance
• Internet Crimes Against Children
• Data Recovery & Business Continuity
• Standardization & Accreditation
• Multimedia Forensics
• Digital Signatures and Certificate”

For more information, please see the call for papers and the call for presentations.

New Issue: Digital Evidence & Electronic Signature Law Review

A new issue, designated volume 6, 2009, of Digital Evidence and Electronic Signature Law Review has been published. The new issue contains many articles of potential interest to legal informatics researchers:

• “Digital data as hearsay: Steven W. Teppler rehearses the arguments for treating digital evidence as hearsay, and illustrates the failure of US courts to deal with digital data consistently
• Evidential issues from pre-action discoveries: Odex Pte Ltd v Pacific Internet Ltd: Daniel Seng considers a recent case in Singapore in which the lawyers failed to obtain statements from appropriate witnesses
• Judgment in the case of K.U. v Finland: the European Court of Human Rights requires access to communications data to identify the sender to enable effective criminal prosecution in serious violations of private life: Tuomas Pöysti examines an important decision by the European Court of Human Rights that must include the investigation of digital evidence
• Businesses’ perception of electronic signatures: An Australian study: Dr. Aashish Srivastava provides a summary of his research into the perception of electronic signatures in Australia amongst the business community, including lawyers
• Civil law liability for unauthorized withdrawals at ATMs in Germany: Assistant Professor DDr. Gerwin Haybäck analyses the present state of the law relating to liability for unauthorized withdrawals from ATMs in Germany
• Bank card fraud in Spain: Ricardo M. Mata y Martín and Antonio Mª. Javato Martín discuss the legal obstacles and remedies in Spain relating to the effective prosecution of thieves that steal bank cards, and consider how the EU is dealing with the issue
• Bread and Donkey for Breakfast: how IT law false friends can confound lawmakers: an Italian tale about digital signatures: Ugo Bechini considers a recent law in Italy that requires the transfer of a share in an Italian limited liability company to be effected by a digital signature, and a case where the judge has determined that the digital signature must be notarized to be effective
• The essential elements of an effective electronic signature process: Greg Casamento and Patrick Hatfield set out some of the practical and legal considerations when dealing with electronic signatures in the United States of America
• Reliability of Chip & PIN evidence in banking disputes: Steven J. Murdoch provides an outline of the ATM system that supports Chip & Pin in the UK, illustrating the complexities of the systems put in place by the banks and the weaknesses that customers may not be aware of
• PINs, passwords and human memory: Wendy Moncur and Dr Grégory Leplâtre provide an introduction to some of the problems relating to memory and the ability of the human to recall passwords
• Known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns: anti-virus issues, malicious software and internet attacks for non-technical audiences: Daniel Bilar illustrates the ease by which third parties can obtain control of computers without the authority of the owner or user, with the concomitant need for lawyers to more fully understand the issues, failing which they might be considered negligent
• Remote electronic discovery: Gib Sorebo takes a wide-ranging look at the changes that are taking place technically in respect of the ability of digital evidence specialists to obtain digital evidence without physically crossing national borders
• Legal privilege and the high cost of electronic discovery in the United States: should we be thinking like lawyers?: Daniel R. Rizzolo provides an insight into the costs of litigation in the United States, identifies a significant bottleneck, and proposes an answer to the problem
• International phishing gangs and operation Phish & Chip: Francesco Cajani provides an insight to the practical problems when dealing with cross-border crime
• Interception of communications: Skype, Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft tools and electronic data retention on foreign servers: A legal perspective from a prosecutor conducting an investigation: Francesco Cajani illustrates the problems associated with dealing with evidence across borders and offers the perspective of an Italian prosecutor
• Digital evidence and e-signature in the Russian Federation: a change in trend?: Alex Dolzhich considers the approach of the Arbitrazh Courts and the Arbitrazh Procedural Codes in relation to digital evidence
• More on suppression and the internet in New Zealand: Ursula Cheer brings the reader up-to-date to her article on the decision of the judge in New Zealand Police v KOrs
• Whether a photograph taken for Google’s Street View can be used as evidence in a criminal process: a case note: Nadezhda Purtova and Arnold Roosendaal consider the implications for data protection and the admissibility of evidence where a photograph retained by Goggle presented evidence of a criminal act
• Digital evidence – do not confuse digital archiving with backups: Philippe Bazin indicates the difference between back-ups of data and the archiving of digital data in the light of a recent French decision
• Digital evidence in the new Swiss Federal Code of Civil Procedure: Christoph Gasser gives an outline of the new Swiss Code of Civil Procedure for the admissibility of digital evidence and the electronic filing of submissions to the courts
• Registered e-Mail and e-Invoicing in Turkey: Dr. Leyla Keser Berber sets out the developments in Turkey in relation to registered e-mail and e-invoicing, and how they may affect contractual relations
• The Indonesian law on electronic information and transactions: Hamud M. Balfas provides a summary of the new law regulating electronic signatures and electronic commerce in Indonesia
• A brief outline of the position in Uruguay in relation to cyber crime legislation: Luis Aguerre and Diego Baldomir provide a brief outline of the present difficulties faced by the authorities in Uruguay in relation to prosecuting cyber crimes
• Line based hash analysis of source code infringement: Svein Yngvar Willassen provides an insight into the complexities of investigating lines of code for the purposes of establishing the theft of intellectual property rights and proposes a new method of investigation
• On the complexity of collaborative cyber crime investigations: Peter M. Bednar, Vasilios Katos and Cheryl Hennell consider the various issues relating to investigating cyber crimes, and suggests a methodology that might prove to be helpful in dealing with such complex criminal investigations
• An investigator’s approach to digital evidence: Paul Lund’s article considers the practical issues, with examples, that a digital evidence specialist faces when dealing with complex allegations of fraud using digital evidence”

The issue also includes English-language translations of several recent significant judicial decisions respecting digital evidence or cybercrime, and reviews of the following books:

• George L. Paul, Foundations of Digital Evidence (2008);
• Electronic Disclosure in International Arbitration (David J. Howell ed., 2008);
• Professor Gerwin Haybäck, Risikohaftung bei missbräuchlichen Bankomatbehebungen Ein österreichisch-deutscher Rechtsvergleich (2008).