CyberForensics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   • Jennifer Bayuk

   Pages 1-6

3. The Complex World of Corporate CyberForensics Investigations

   • Gregory Leibolt

   Pages 7-27

4. Investigating Large-Scale Data Breach Cases

   • J. Andrew Valentine

   Pages 29-43

5. Insider Threat Investigations

   • Shane Sims

   Pages 45-51

6. Accounting Forensics

   • Tracy McBride

   Pages 53-57

7. Analyzing Malicious Software

   • Lenny Zeltser

   Pages 59-83

8. Network Packet Forensics

   • Eddie Schwartz

   Pages 85-101

9. RAM and File Systems Investigations

   • Rita M. Barrios, Yuri Signori

   Pages 103-116

10. One Picture is Worth a Million Bytes

    • Don Fergus, Anthony Agresta

    Pages 117-128

11. Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Cooperation

    • Art Ehuan

    Pages 129-139

12. Technology Malpractice

    • Paul Rohmeyer

    Pages 141-148

13. Back Matter

    Pages 149-167

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Cyberforensics is a fairly new word in the technology our industry, but one that n- ertheless has immediately recognizable meaning. Although the word forensics may have its origins in formal debates using evidence, it is now most closely associated with investigation into evidence of crime. As the word cyber has become synonymous with the use of electronic technology, the word cyberforensics bears no mystery. It immediately conveys a serious and concentrated endeavor to identify the evidence of crimes or other attacks committed in cyberspace. Nevertheless, the full implications of the word are less well understood. Cyberforensic activities remain a mystery to most people, even those fully immersed in the design and operation of cyber te- nology. This book sheds light on those activities in a way that is comprehensible not only to technology professionals but also to the technology hobbyist and those simply curious about the ?eld. When I started contributing to the ?eld of cybersecurity, it was an obscure ?eld, rarely mentioned in the mainstream media. According to the FBI, by 2009 organized crime syndicates were making more money via cybercrime than in drug traf?- ing. In spite of the rise in cybercrime and the advance of sophisticated threat actors online, the cyber security profession continues to lag behind in its ability to inves- gate cybercrime and understand the root causes of cyber attacks. In the late 1990s I worked to respond to sophisticated attacks as part of the U. S.

• Child Pornography
• Computer Forensics
• Crime
• Cybercrime
• Internet
• Mainframe
• computer
• cyberforensics, security, computers, internet
• data security
• identity theft
• methodology
• search engine marketing (SEM)
• technology

• Cybersecurity Program Director, School of Systems and Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, USA

  Jennifer Bayuk

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