BCS members' discount : Forensic Science Society Cybercrime meeting, 18th Jan. 2006
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offering BCS members a 10% discount on the fees for a one-day meeting on
"Cybercrime : Challenges for Today and Tomorrow" to be held in London on
18th Jan. 2006. I would be most grateful if you could arrange for members to
be informed of this. In addition, if 10 or more people book from a single
organisation, a discount of 15% is on offer.
Speakers include Prof. Tony Sammes, Peter Sommer, Marc Kirby (NHTCU), Andy
Clark (Inforenz), Guidance Software and Terry Tinsley (Cheshire Police,
substituting for Nigel Pugh).
The meeting will be chaired by Angus Marshall, Course Leader for Digital
Forensics programmes at University of Teesside.
A copy of the booking form is available from
http://www.forensic-science-society.org.uk.
Some more info. about some of the speaakers and sessions follows :
"Peter Sommer has been Senior Research Fellow at the London School of
Economics' Information Systems Integrity Group since 1994. His main
research interest is the reliability of digital evidence, a subject which
encompasses forensic computing and e-commerce. He has helped developed the
LSE's social-science orientated courses on information security management.
In the last Parliament he was Specialist Advisor to the UK House of Commons
Trade & Industry Select Committee while it scrutinised UK policy and
legislation on e-commerce. He was part of the UK Office of Science
Technology's Foresight Study, Cyber Trust, Cyber Crime. He sits on a
number of UK Government Advisory Panels. Recent research contracts have
been carried out for the UK Financial Services Authority and the European
Commission's Safer Internet Action Plan. He is currently part of the
European FIDIS Network of Excellence and also a member of the Reference
Group (review mechanism) of another European Commission initiative, PRIME.
He is an external examiner at the Royal Military College of Science,
Shrivenham, and an advisor on a number of law enforcement and other
committees concerned with cyber-crime and emergency response. He has
advised Centrex, which provides hi-tech crime training to UK law
enforcement, and TWED-DE, a US DoJ-funded exercise to develop training on
digital evidence. He has also lectured at UK and US law enforcement seminar
on cyber-evidence and intelligence matters. He is on the editorial board
of Digital Evidence Journal.
His first expert witness assignment was in 1985 and his casework has
included the Datastream Cowboy / Rome Labs international systems hack, the
Demon v Godfrey Internet libel, NCS Operation Cathedral ( a global Internet
paedophile conspiracy) Operation Ore (arising from a website involved in the
large-scale distribution of photographs of child abuse), NHTCU Operation
Blossom (an alleged gobal conspiracy to distribute "warez" - pirated
software) and many other cases involving such diverse crimes as multiple
murder, forgery, software piracy, computer hacking, bank fraud, credit
card cloning and the sale of Official Secrets."
'Andrew J Clark BSc., C.Eng, CITP, F.I.E.E., F.B.C.S., C.I.S.S.P.
Andrew has particular expertise in Information Forensics, Cryptography, I.T.
Security, Systems Engineering and Security Evaluation.
He has acted as an expert witness in these areas since February 1996.
He is a Fellow of The Institution Of Electrical Engineers (F.I.E.E.) and a
Fellow of the British Computer Society (F.B.C.S).
In 2001, Andrew co-founded Inforenz Limited, a U.K. company specialising in
computer and cryptographic forensics. Inforenz specialises in recovering
encrypted and hidden computer data evidentially for law enforcement agencies
and commercial companies.
His work has included designing security architectures for large
multi-national clients, designing cryptographic systems for protecting
Internet-based financial transactions, managing the development of secure
messaging products and forensically analysing a wide range of computer
systems and media for various criminal cases. His specialisms include
analysis of the security of cable and satellite television systems, and the
study of smart card systems' security.
Andrew is listed in the Law Society Directory of (Checked) Expert Witnesses
and in the Sweet & Maxwell Directory of (Checked) Expert Witnesses
specialising in Information Forensics and Computer Assisted Crime. He has
experience of giving expert evidence in both Magistrates and Crown Courts.
He has produced study reports for senior management and board level within
banks, multi-national companies, and directorate level in central
government.
He continues to develop his skills in security matters and is President of
the International Association for Cryptologic Research (I.A.C.R.) which is
an international body, with members in more than thirty countries, dedicated
to research in cryptology and I.T. security.
He is the author of more than fifty papers on security issues, and has
spoken at international conferences on security for nearly twenty years.
He is a co-author of the book "Enterprise Security Architecture: A Business
Driven Approach" published in December 2005.
Abstract
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Future Forensic Challenges
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Information forensics, and more particularly computer forensics, is an area
of investigation in which the crime scene is constantly changing. Operating
systems continue to be updated, new software applications are developed and
deployed and the perpetrators of computer-assisted crime increasingly seek
to erase evidence of their activities.
In the past five years we have seen the convergence of several technologies
that make forensic analysis more challenging:
. "washing" utilities designed to remove evidence of user activity on
computer systems;
. The growth of interconnection of "personal" computing devices such
as mobile phones, PDAs and music players;
. Peer-to-peer data sharing;
. Wireless networking;
. Hosted communication services.
In this presentation we shall discuss how the impact of these technologies
will increase in the future and explore in more detail some of the new
initiatives in Microsoft's Vista operating system.'
"Marc Kirby
Head of Computer Forensics for the National Hi Tech Crime Unit since its
inception in 2001.
Currently tasked with transferring the operation to the newly created
Serious and Organised Crime Agency.
A serving Detective Inspector in the Police Service.
In the final few months of an MSc in Forensic Computing from Cranfield
University.
Cases include, Blackmail of businesses via DDOS, Unlawful interception of
email, Phishing, Hacking and many more.
I will outline my views on the future challenges in computer forensics. I
must emphasise that they are my views based on my experience.
I will discuss how I see computer forensics developing to deal with the
challenges posed by new developments in IT. It will include subjects such
as:
Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs)
Encryption
Volatile Data
Networks
Volumes of data
Communications (Instant Messaging VOIP etc)"