Previous CFET Conferences

Day one:

• Nigel Jones, [keynote presentation].
• Margaret Ross, Geoff Staples, Mark Udall, 'Cybercrime – awareness is protection'.
• Gary C. Kessler, 'Extending the multidisciplinary learning experience in digital forensics using mock trials'.
• Lynne Norris-Jones, 'An investigation into the social, legal and ethical issues associated with biometrics in the UK (practical application to computing programmes)'.
• Paula Thomas, Christy Petersen, 'An investigation into the vulnerabilities of computer forensic processes as shown through an anti forensics tool'. 
• Stuart Gibson, Christopher Solomon, Clifford Clark, 'New methodology in facial composite construction and the associated implications for facial ID training'.
• Dave Childs, Paul Stephens, 'An analysis of the accuracy and usefulness of Vinetto, pasco and Mork.pl'.
• Stephen Mason, [keynote presentation].
• Rein Oja, Alan Davidson, 'A Swedish IT forensics course – expert opinions'.
• Richard E. Overill, 'Development of a masters module in computer forensics and cybercrime'.
• Iwan Kartiko, Manolya Kavakli, 'Virtual reality police training: how much visual information is too much?'
• Kweku Oruro Koranteng, 'Cyber fraud in Ghana locally known in the Hausa language as 'sakawa': an ethnographic study of a popular slum community in Ghana-Nima'.
• Kasun De Zoysa, Keerthi Goonathillake, Ravith Botejue, 'Developing a digital forensic framework for a third world country'. 
• Paul Stephens, Gerald Stock, 'What can a computer forensics examiner learn from an ethical hacker?'
• Denis Edgar-Nevill, 'Building the infrastructure to support HE computer forensics'.
• Hamid Jahankhani, Amie Taal, Ian Mitchell, 'The importance of funding and training to manage and investigate computer crime'.
• Man Qi, Yongquan Wang, Rongsheng Xu, 'Cybercrime legislations in China'.

Day two:

• Edward P. Gibson, 'Computing "environment": it's more than binary code – it's about criminals!' [keynote presentation].
• Abhaya Induruwa, 'Mobile phone forensic investigation: technical and legal challenges'. 
• David Collins, 'XFT – a forensic toolkit for the original xbox game console'.
• Zhijun Liu, et al, 'Digital evidence analysis in China'. 
• David Bennett, Paul Stephens, 'Is property theft in crime investigation? Using OSS in cybercrime education'. 
• Mick O'Brien, George R.S. Weir, 'Understanding digital certificates'.
• Man Qi, Reza Mousoli, Denis Edgar-Nevill, 'The social effects of spam'. 
• Righard Zwienenberg, 'Virtual environments have a prominent role in securing your organisation: case study on a DDoS attack'. 
• F.W.J. van Geelkerken, 'Egregious use of Tor servers? Data retention, anonymity, and privacy on-line'.
• Reza Mousoli, 'Comparison of Drupal and Joomla security functions for designing secure content management system'. 
• Jun Zhang, Lina Wang, 'Case-oriented evidence mining in forensic computing: a case study'.
• Zeming Yang, Rongsheng Xu, Man Qi, 'Intrusion forensics'. 
• Rhongsheng Xu, 'Digital forensics research in China' [keynote presentation].

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Day one:

• Alastair Irons, David Sanders, 'Psychology of cybercrime'.
• James Nicholl, Denis Edgar-Nevill, 'Weaknesses and possibilities to improve the copine scale'.
• Margaret Ross, Geoff Staples, Mark Udall, 'Social networking and cybercrime'.
• David Harley, 'The game of the name: malware naming and sympathetic magic'.
• Gary Kessler, Denis Edgar-Nevill, 'Cybercrime forensics: two views from either side of the pond'.
• Phil Beckett, 'Tracking the evolution of the IP thief'.
• C. Chibelushi, T. Proctor, 'System management problems: an advantage to malware developers'. 
• Robet Dube, 'How ethical are computer forensics?'
• Sheona Anne Hollachan, 'The ethics of computer forensics'.
• Maurice Calvert, 'A mock trial for computer forensics students'.
• Geraint Williams, Carsten Maple, 'Development of a facility to aid the teaching of computer security and digital forensics at the University of Bedfordshire'.
• Steve Marsh, Lynne Norris-Jones, 'Is finger vein authentication a preferred alternative to fingerprint scanning?'
• Nasser S. Abouzakhar, Muhammed Bello Abdulazeez, 'A fingerprint matching model using unsupervised learning approach'.
• Lawrence Munro, Dimitris Tsaptsinos, 'Experiences of using honeypots as a final year project'.
• Man Qi, Reza Mousoli, 'Phishing and e-trust'.
• Paul Owen, Paula Thomas, 'Analysis of the methodology used in digital forensic examinations – mobile devices vs. computer hard disk'.
• Jonathan Crellin, Sevasti Karatzouni, 'Simulation in digital forensic education'.
• Man Qi, Denis Edgar-Nevill, 'Lessons learned from Beijing for the London 2012 Olympics'.

Day two:

• Yasantha N. Hettiarachchi, T.N.K. De Zoysa, Keerthi Goonethilake, 'FIT4D: a forensic investigation toolkit for a developing country'.
• Paul Stephens, 'Teaching European law enforcement forensic scripting using Bash'.
• Qin Zhou, Nigel Poole, 'Masterkey Linux for cybercrime forensics education and training'.
• Abhaya Induruwa, Sarah Induruwa Fernando, 'Grid computing for fighting cybercrime'.
• Austen Rainer, Peter Lane, James Malcolm, 'A fast copy detection tool for forensic analysis'.
• Stephen McCombie, Paul Watters, 'Survey of Eastern European organised cybercrime'. 
• Jens Kirschner, 'Closing the gap for open source image handling: acquisition, verification and loop-mount of e01-type images on Linux systems: converting e01 or dd images into bootable virtual machines'.
• Milton Luoma, Vicki Luoma, 'Qualcomm vs. Broadcom: illustrating the need for a computer forensic expert'.
• Kweku Oduro Koranteng, 'Cyber fraud in Ghana locally known in the Hausa language as 'sakawa': an ethnographic study of a popular slum community in Ghana-Nima'.

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Day one:

• Andrew Rennison, 'Forensic science quality standards: the past, present and future (focusing on computer forensics)' [keynote presentation].
• Jassem I Al Mansoori, Graham Benmore, Margaret Ross, 'Combating cyber crime in the UAE'.
• Man Qi, Yongquan Wang, 'Protecting intellectual property and computer software: legislation in China'.
• Peter Komisarczuk, 'Honeyclients for teaching in cybercrime and forensics'.
• Richard E. Overill, Jantje A. M. Silomon, 'Digital meta-forensics: quantifying the investigation'.
• Ellen Moar, Andrew Wakelin, 'An investigation into forensic analysis of deniably encrypted drives'.
• David Bennett, 'Assessing cryptology'.
• Bill Buchanan, Richard MacFarlane, Robert Ludwiniak, 'Student perception of on-line lectures within a blended learning environment for security and digital forensics'.
• Denis Edgar-Nevill, 'Cybercrime vs cyber-war'.
• Yasantha N. Hettiarachchi, et al, 'A low cost forensic tool for analyzing huge data sets in digital investigations'.
• Righard J. Zwienenberg, 'The exploit, the exploiter, the exploited...'
• Christopher Hargreaves, Howard Chivers, 'A virtualisation based forensic computing research tool'.
• Ron Tasker, 'The advantages and risks of live data collection'.
• Michael Jones, Alexandra Otto, 'Integrating digital forensics in a crime scene investigation exercise'.
• Lynne Norrie-Jones, 'Using biometric access control for forensic identification: benefit or bind?'
• Nasser S. Abouzakhar, Praneeth Enjamuri, 'An enhanced Eigenfaces-based biometric forensic model'.
• Ian Kennedy, 'Towards scientific malware analysis'.
• David Harley, 'Antivirus testing and AMTSO: has anything changed?'
• Cameron J. Shahab, 'Traffic analysis, anonymity, freedom and digital "cat and mouse" in cyberspace: a case study of China vs Iran'.
• Abhaya Induruwa, 'Constantly evolving technological challenges in cybercrime forensic investigation'. 
• Peter Wood, 'Think like a hacker – an ethical hacker's view of corporate security' [keynote presentation].

Day two:

• Alastair Irons, 'The relationship between digital investigations and reduction in cybercrime'.
• Andrew Hawkins, Denis Edgar-Nevill, 'Detection of information compromise committed by malicious insiders'.
• Sarah Morris, Howard Chivers, 'A comparative study of the structure and behaviour of the operating system thumbnail caches used in Kubuntu and Ubuntu (9.10 and 10.04)'.
• Fahad Mir, Dimitris Tsaptsinos, 'Developing a GUI interface to the MS log parser'.
• Robet Dube, 'Open delegates discussion: cybercrime, digital forensics and the "cloud" (ethics, professional and legal issues)'.
• David Harley, 'SODDImy and the trojan defence'.
• Steve Edwards, 'ACPO good practice guide for digital evidence (ver 5)' [keynote presentation].
• Clare Bracey, Denis Edgar-Nevill, 'Support for paedophile image viewers'.
• Kate Andrade, Reza Mousoli, 'Social networking sites, privacy and personal digital security: a case study of Facebook and Bebo'.
• Michael Jones, 'A digital forensics case generator'.
• Georgios Chlapoutakis, et al, 'Using PFSense and commidity hardware as a medium interaction honey-net'.
• Nasser S. Abouzakhar, Abu Bakar, 'A chi-square testing-based intrusion detection model'.
• Man Qi, 'Machine learning based spam filtering: advantages and challenges'.
• Xuan Huang, 'A model to support the authentication of mobile transaction'.
• Karl Obayi, 'Problems with prosecuting computer crimes'.
• Paul Douglas, Colin Myers, 'Criteria for successful MSc research projects in computer forensics'.
• Harjinder Singh Lallie, 'The use of digital forensic case studies for teaching and assessment'.
• Bill Buchanan, et al, 'Engaging students into digital forensics and cybercrime with challenging, ever-changing and stimulating environments'.
• Stilianos Vidalis, Eric Llewellyn, Olga Angelopoulou, 'Educating digital forensic investigators at Newport'.

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Day one:

• Ian Sadler, 'Global coordination and the fight against cybercrime' [keynote presentation].
• Clive Blackwell, 'Formally modelling attack patterns for forensic analysis'.
• David Harley, Julia Canto, 'Man, myth, malware and multiscanning'.
• Jonathan Patterson, Christopher Hargreaves, 'Automated identification and reconstruction of YouTube video access'.
• Jasem Al Mansoori, Margaret Ross, Graham Benmore, 'Awareness and training as the key to combating cyber-crime by the UAE police forces'.
• Sarah Morris, Howard Chivers, 'Forming a relationship between artefacts identified in thumbnail caches and the remaining data on a storage device'.
• Paul Stephens, Alastair Irons, 'The challenges of live data forensics'.
• Clive Blackwell, 'A network blackbox with plunk for forensic analysis'.
• Waleed Halboob, Muhammad Abulaish, Khaled S. Alghathbar, 'Multi-levels privacy-preserving computer forensics investigation'.
• Pavel Gladyshev, 'Cyberforensics and international police collaboration: trends and challenges' [keynote presentation].

Day two:

• Hemamali Tennakoon, 'Cyber-terrorism: a new reign of terror'.
• Denis Edgar-Nevill, 'Cyberwar'.
• Neil Fowler Wright, 'DNS in computer forensics'.
• Ed Day, 'Grid computing for large-scale mobile phone analysis'.
• Righard J. Zwienenberg, 'The exploit, the exploiter, the exploited...'
• Bill Buchannan, 'Creation of dynamic environments for virtualised and cloud-based teaching in digital forensics and computer security' [keynote presentation].
• Robet Dube, 'Cybercrime on VLEs visa vee the social networking and single-sign-on insecurities'.
• Man Qi, 'Cyber safety in schools: issues and countermeasures'.
• David Harley, 'The virtual tsunami: global disasters and security disasters'.
• Susan Welford, Stuart Gibson, Andrew Payne, 'Digital image analysis for evidence: a MATLAB toolbox'.
• Richard E. Overill, Jantje A. M. Silomon, 'Digital cosmo-forensics: the final frontier?'
• Nigel Jones, [keynote presentation].

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Day one:

• Theo Derksen, Alwin Hilbrink, 'Training at the Dutch Police Academy and digital forensic training programme: new developments and involvement in ISEC and ECTEG' [keynote presentation].
• Chris Hargreaves, 'Cross-drive analysis using automated digital forensic timelines'.
• Susan Welford, Stuart Gibson, 'Do state-of-the-art forensic image processing techniques address the problem of poliing photographic data in the current file sharing culture?'
• David Harley, Steve Burn, 'FUD and Blunder: tracking PC support scams'.
• Righard J. Zwienenberg, 'BYOD: (B)rought (Y)our (O)wn (D)estruction?'
• Mikael Lindstrom, 'The European Cybercrime Centre (EC3)' [keynote presentation].
• George R. S. Weir, 'Textual analysis as a digital forensic tool'.
• R. I. Ferguson, P. Leimich, R. Bagley, 'On the digital forensic analysis of the Firefox browser via recovery of SQLite artefacts from unallocated space'.
• Denis Edgar-Nevill, 'ECENTRE – England's cybercrime centre of excellence network for training, research and education' [BCS AGM presentation].

Day two:

• Tuan Phan Vuong, Diane Gan, 'A targeted malicious email (TME) attack tool'.
• Anne David, 'An analysis of Hotmail artefacts in Firefox 9'.
• Sarah Morris, 'Virtual crime: forensic artefacts from Second Life'.
• Christie Oso, Diane Gan, 'A forensics approach to digital fingerprinting on Windows servers'.
• Peter Salter, 'Making digital forensics work within the modern policing environment' [keynote presentation].
• D Chadwick, et al, 'Intensive teaching of cyber security for mid-career physical security professionals with limited academic backgrounds'.
• Georgios Chlapoutakis, 'From criminal to digital criminal profiling: advances in criminal profiling in the digital age'.
• Peter Forster, 'The utilisation of the unified modelling language in digital forensic science'.
• Abhaya Induruwa, Nathan Attoe, 'VoIP forensics'.
• Clive Blackwell, 'towards a science of digital forensics'.
• Harjinder Singh Lallie, 'A simple enterprise security architecture (SESA): towards a pedagogic architecture for teaching cyber security'.
• Hemamali Tennakoon, 'A comprehensive methodology for profiling cyber-criminals'.
• Gordon Russell, Robert Ludwiniak, 'A forensic image description language for generating test images'.
• Man Qi, 'Social media in law enforcement: the role and issues'.
• Nigel Jones, [keynote presentation].

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Day one:

• Michael Palmer, 'European Commission support for cybercrime forensics education and training' [keynote presentation].
• Caitlin Toner, George R. S. Weir, 'Understanding the risks and benefits of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)'.
• Colin Beeke, Peter Komisarczuk, 'An initial study into BYOD, cloud and insider threats'.
• Madeline Cheah, Lauchlan Wyndham-Birch, Robert Bird, 'What artefacts of evidentary value can be found when investigating multi-user virtual environments?'
• Adrian Winkles, Mark Graham, Andrew Moore, 'Techniques for the detection and monitoring of malware behaviour within virtual cloud environments'.
• Zareefa S Mustafa, Philip Nobles, 'A testbed for cloud based forensic investigation'.
• Adrian Winkles, Andrew Moore, 'The all round cyber crime and security professional – circular teaching for the professional and the technical – experiences from the witness box'.
• Fergus Toolan, et al, 'Deepthought: initial validation of a preliminary analysis forensic tool'.
• Calum Findlay, Petra Leimich, 'An assessment of data leakage in Firefox under different conditions'.
• Robert Bird, Madeline Cheah, 'Undertaking and activity led learning appraoch in the developmetn of an appropriate pedagogy in the field of digital forensics'.
• Sarah Morris, 'Continued development of a Masters module on "forensic computing using Linux"'.
• Man Qi, 'Employing neural networks for DDoS detection'.
• Mark Graham, Adrian Winkles, 'An analysis of pre-infection detection techniques for Botnets and other malware'.
• Righard Zwienenberg, Bruce Burrell, 'PUA – Potentially Unwanted Advice'.
• Denis Edgar-Nevill, 'Education in the impossible fight against cybercrime'.

Day two:

• Ed Day, 'Techniques available for pattern matchin in mobile phone forensics'.
• Abhaya Induruwa, 'What do smart phones reveal about their owners' social identity?'
• Righard J. Zwienenberg, 'The social media connection'.
• Lily Rose Jenkins, Diane Gan, 'An investigation into privacy and identity theft using social media'.
• Ray Genoe, Fergus Toolan, 'Programming for investigators: from zero to hero in four days'.
• Harjinder Singh Lallie, Isabel Oritsematosan Otubu,Roma Manoj Gandhi, 'The efficacy of the Enron dataset for digital investigation training and education'. 
• S. Comer, P. Leimich, 'A comparison of geo-tagging in mobile internet browsing applications on iOS and Android'.
• Razvan-Ioan Dinita, et al, 'Use of Netflow/IPFix Botnet detection tools to determine placement for autonomous VMs'.
• Robert Burls, Philip Nobles, 'Analysis of Feodo malware: a complimentary approach'.
• Pulkit Vohra, Roma Gandhi, Harjinder Singh Lallie, 'The cyber security CSI effect in Bollywood'.
• Charles Frewin, Sarah Morris, 'Forensic implications of portable operating systems'.
• Jassem I Al Mansoori, Graham Benmore, Margaret Ross, 'A strategic human resource management model to develop a high performance work system for cyber crimes investigators within UAE police forces'. 
• David Harley, 'Education and privacy: PIN and passphrase selection strategies'.
• Nigel Jones, 'The legacy of 2Centre' [keynote presentation].

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