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.

Strutin: Strengthening Forensic Science: The Next Wave of Scholarship

Ken Strutin, JD, MLS, of the New York State Defenders Association has published a bibliography of recent scholarly works and conferences on the reform of forensic science in the United States, entitled Strengthening Forensic Science: The Next Wave of Scholarship, LLRX.com, Nov. 23, 2009. For some reason, authors’ names are omitted from the bibliography, so extra effort is required to evaluate the works described. Here is the abstract:

“The National Academy of Sciences report, Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward [NAS Report], is the most important, recent contribution to the ongoing reevaluation of forensic evidence. Since the release of the prepublication version in February 2009, its findings and conclusions have been steadily sinking into the collective consciousness of the legal and scientific communities.

“This article focuses on threads of scholarly literature citing and commenting on the NAS Report; and highlights discussions where experts and practitioners rethink the merits of a wide range of forensic issues.2 And on the horizon is the Third Edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, which will have its own impact on legal thinking about science in the courtroom.”