The Increasing Importance of Digital Forensics and Investigations in Law Enforcement, Government and Commercial Sectors

Abstract

Digital forensics and investigations play an increasingly important role in a broad range of scenarios, such as those in pandemics (e.g. COVID-19 contact tracing), criminal cases, civil litigations, and national security cases. In this book, the editors documented their education and research activities with students enrolled in the Master of Science (MSc) in Forensic Computing and Cybercrime Investigation program at University College Dublin, Ireland, who are also from the law enforcement and government community in Canada, Ireland, Germany, The Netherlands, and United Kingdom. Collaboratively, the authors focused on topics ranging from Internet of Things (IoT) malware analysis, IoT testbed setup, malware analysis (e.g. ransomware), CCTV forensics, financial investigations (e.g. PayPal accounts and Bitcoins), cloud forensics, and network and ToR forensics.