Cryptocurrencies set a new trend for a financial interaction between people. In order to successfully meet this use-case, cryptocurrencies combine various advanced information technologies (e.g., blockchain as a replicated database, asymmetrical ciphers and hashes guaranteeing integrity properties, peer-to-peer networking providing fault-tolerant service). Mining process not only introduces new cryptocurrency

Digital forensics can no longer tolerate software that cannot be relied upon to perform specific functions such as file recovery. Indistinct and non-standardized results increase the risk of misinterpretation by digital forensic practitioners, and hinder automated correlation of file recovery results in forensic analysis and tool testing. Treating file recovery results in a clear, distinct manner helps

As the storage capacity of smartphones increases, more user data such as call logs, SMS records, media data, and instant messages are stored in smartphones. Therefore, it is important in digital investigation to acquire smartphones containing the personal information of users. However, even when a prime suspect's smartphone is acquired, it is difficult to extract user data without obtaining root privilege

Bitcoin as a popular digital currency has been a target of theft and other illegal activities. Key to the forensic investigation is to identify bitcoin addresses involved in the bitcoin transfers. This paper presents a framework, FABT, for forensic analysis of bitcoin transactions by identifying suspicious bitcoin addresses. It formalizes the clues of a given case as transaction patterns defined over

In 2018, Horsman (2018a; 2018b) provided guidance for the reconstruction of cached stream remnants following use of the Periscope, Facebook Live and YouTube platforms. These works confirmed that video stream content can be cached to a local device when viewed via an Internet browser, and that following the provided methodology, video content can be rebuilt for subsequent viewing. This work provides

The problems faced with regulating social media platforms are well known and documented, where frequent abuses of these platforms occur. In addition to this issue, the use of gaming platforms and their inbuilt communication facilities to carry out malicious acts including hate crimes and grooming is now an increasing concern. The regulation of gaming applications is now arguably a necessity with acts

This empirical study aims to determine whether online media coverage can be used to gather intelligence on specific crimes worldwide. The quality of online news is evaluated as an indicator of the worldwide distribution of jewelry store robberies. This phenomenon was selected because evaluating the risk of criminal events at the global level is a challenge for private companies, who need to settle

Any investigation can have a digital dimension, often involving information from multiple data sources, organizations and jurisdictions. Existing approaches to representing and exchanging cyber-investigation information are inadequate, particularly when combining data sources from numerous organizations or dealing with large amounts of data from various tools. To perform digital investigations effectively