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IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine Special issue on Digital Forensics

This CFP can be accessed via the link:
https://www.computer.org/web/computingnow/spcfp6

IMPORTANT DATES
Articles due for review: 1 March 2017
Publication date: November/December 2017

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SPECIAL ISSUE on DIGITAL FORENSICS

CALL FOR PAPERS

Modern societies are becoming increasingly dependent on open networks
where commercial activities, business transactions, and government
services are delivered. Despite the benefits, these networks have led to
new cyberthreats and cybersecurity issues. Abuse of and mistrust for
telecommunications and computer network technologies have significant
socioeconomic impacts on global enterprises as well as individuals.

Cybercriminal activities such as fraud often require the investigations
that span across international borders. In addition, they’re often
subject to different jurisdictions and legal systems. The increased
intricacy of the communication and networking infrastructure complicates
investigation of such activities. Clues of illegal digital activities
are often buried in large volumes of data that makes crime detection and
evidence collection difficult.

This poses new challenges for law enforcement and compels computer
societies to utilize digital forensics to combat the growing number of
cybercrimes. Forensic professionals must be fully prepared to gather
effective digital evidence. Forensic techniques must keep pace with new
technologies; therefore, digital forensics is becoming more important
for law enforcement and information and network security.

This multidisciplinary area includes several fields, including law,
computer science, finance, networking, data mining, and criminal
justice. It faces diverse challenges and issues in terms of the
efficiency of digital evidence processing and related forensic procedures.

This special issue aims to collect the most relevant ongoing research
efforts in digital forensics field.

Topics include, but aren’t limited to:
- real-world case studies, best practices, and readiness;
- challenges and emerging trends;
- digital forensic triage;
- antiforensics and anti-antiforensics approaches;
- networking incident response, investigation, and evidence handling;
- network forensics and traffic analysis;
- detecting illegal sites and traffic (for instance, child
abuse/exploitation);
- malware and targeted attacks including analysis and attribution;
- information-hiding techniques (network stenography, covert channels,
and so on);
- stealth communication through online games and its detection;
- use and implications of machine learning in digital forensics;
- big data and digital forensics;
- network traffic fingerprinting and attacks;
- cybercrimes design, detection, and investigation;
- cybercrime issues and solutions from a digital forensics perspective;
- nontraditional forensic scenarios and approaches (for instance,
vehicles, SCADA, automation and control);
- social networking forensics;
- cloud forensics;
- law enforcement and digital forensics; and
- digital forensics for incident response, research, policy compliance
enforcement, and so on.

Submission Guidelines

Submissions will be subject to the IEEE Computer Society's peer-review
process. Articles should be at most 6,000 words, with a maximum of 15
references, and should be understandable to a broad audience of people
interested in security, privacy, and dependability. The writing style
should be down to earth, practical, and original. Authors should not
assume that the audience will have specialized experience in a
particular subfield. All accepted articles will be edited according to
the IEEE Computer Society style guide. Submit your papers to Scholar­One
at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-ieee.

Direct any questions and submit abstracts (by 1 Jan. 2017) to the Guest
Editors:
- Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology & FernUniversität
  in Hagen, wmazurczyk@tele.pw.edu.pl
- Steffen Wendzel, Fraunhofer FKIE, steffen.wendzel@fkie.fraunhofer.de
- Luca Caviglione, ISSIA, National Research Council of Italy,
  luca.caviglione@ge.issia.cnr.it
- Simson L. Garfinkel, National Institute of Standards and Technology,
  simsong@acm.org