Weekly Readings

Week 1:

• A Historical Perspective of Digital Evidence (Whitcomb)
• A Road Map for Digital Forensic Research (DFRWS)
• Forensic Analysis in a Digital World (Palmer)

Week 2:

• Search and Seizure in a Digital World - Kerr
• Sedona Principles
• Steven Jackson Vs. US Secret Service

Week 3:

• None

Week 4:

• Good Practice Guide for Computer Based Evidence (ACPO)
• Sedona Principles
• SWGDE Standards for Best Evidence

Week 5:

• NIJ Guide to Search and Seizure
• Getting Physical with the Digital Investigative Process
• The Olmsteadian Seizure Clause

Week 6:

• NIST: Software Write Blockers
• NIST: Hardware Write Blockers
• MD5 Collisions

Week 7:

• Timestamps in Digital Evidence

Week 8:

• None

Week 9:

• The Dark side of NTFS

Week 10:

• iPod Forensics
• Mac Forensics: Mac OS X and the HFS+ File System

Week 11:

• DCSA: A Practical Approach to Digital Crime Scene Analysis
• Open Source Tools
• An Examination of Digital Forensic Models
• A Hierarchical, Objectives-Based Framework for the Digital Investigations Process
• The Enhanced Digital Investigation Process Model

Week 12:

• An Event-Based Digital Forensic Investigation Framework
• Defining Event Reconstruction of Digital Crime Scenes

Week 13:

• Arriving at an anti-forensics consensus

Week 14:

• The role of criminal profiling in the computer forensics process

Week 15:

• Computer Forensics: The Need for Standardization and Certification

Week 16:

• None