In this book, Tony Sammes and Brian Jenkinson show how information held in computer systems can be recovered and how it may be deliberately hidden or subverted for criminal purposes. "Forensic Computing: A Practitioner's Guide" is illustrated by plenty of case studies and worked examples, and will help practitioners and students gain a clear understanding of:* how to recover information from computer systems in such a way as to ensure that its integrity cannot be challenged and that...

In 25 concise steps, you will learn the basics of blockchain technology. No mathematical formulas, program code, or computer science jargon are used. No previous knowledge in computer science, mathematics, programming, or cryptography is required. Terminology is explained through pictures, analogies, and metaphors.This book bridges the gap that exists between purely technical books about the blockchain and purely business-focused books. It does so by explaining both the technical c...

Malicious software (i.e., malware) has become a severe threat to interconnected computer systems for decades and has caused billions of dollars damages each year. A large volume of new malware samples are discovered daily. Even worse, malware is rapidly evolving becoming more sophisticated and evasive to strike against current malware analysis and defense systems.Automatic Malware Analysis presents a virtualized malware analysis framework that addresses common challenges i...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment, DIMVA 2017, held in Bonn, Germany, in July 2017.The 18 revised full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 67 submissions. They present topics such as enclaves and isolation; malware analysis; cyber-physical systems; detection and protection; code analysis; and web security.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business, TrustBus 2016, held in Porto, Portugal, in September 2016 in conjunction with DEXA 2016. The 8 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: security, privacy and trust in eServices; security and privacy in cloud computing; privacy requirements; and inform...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Applied Cryptology and Network Security, ACNS 2017, held in Kanazawa, Japan, in July 2017.The 34 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 149 submissions. The topics focus on innovative research and current developments that advance the areas of applied cryptography, security analysis, cyber security and privacy, data and server security.

This book presents the first reference exposition of the Cyber-Deception Chain: a flexible planning and execution framework for creating tactical, operational, or strategic deceptions. This methodology bridges the gap between the current uncoordinated patchwork of tactical denial and deception (D&D) techniques and their orchestration in service of an organization’s mission. Concepts for cyber- D&D planning operations and management are detailed within the larger organizational, business, a...

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the Second International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy, ICISSP 2016, held in Rome, Italy, in February 2016.The 9 full papers presented together with two invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 91 submissions. They are dealing with topics such as data and software security; privacy and confidentiality; mobile systems security; biometric authentication; privacy in social media.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Ubiquitous Networking, UNet 2017, held in Casablanca, Morocco, in May 2017.The 56 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 127 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: context-awareness and autonomy paradigms; mobile edge networking and virtualization; ubiquitous internet of things: emerging technologies and breakthroughs; and enablers, cha...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet Systems, CRiSIS 2015, held in Mytilene, Lesbos Island, Greece, in July 2015.The 18 full papers presented were selected from 50 submissions. The papers sessions that have covered a broad range of topics: trust and privacy issues, privacy policies and policy based protocols, risk management, risk analysis and vulnerability assessment, cloud ...

This two volume set LNCS 9827 and LNCS 9828 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2016, held in Porto, Portugal, September 2016.The 39 revised full papers presented together with 29 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 137 submissions. The papers discuss a range of topics including: Temporal, Spatial, and High Dimensional Databases; Data Mining; Authenticity, Privacy, Security, a...

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.4, 8.9, TC 5 International Cross-Domain Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security in Information Systems, CD-ARES 2016, and the Workshop on Privacy Aware Machine Learning for Health Data Science, PAML 2016, co-located with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, ARES 2016, held in Salzburg, Austria, in September 2016. The 13 revised full papers and 4 short papers presented were care...