3rd International Annual Workshop on Digital Forensics and Incident Analysis: WDFIA 2008 A Workshop of ESORICS 2008 Thursday 9th October 2008 University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain http://www.aegean.gr/wdfia08 First Call for Paper Submission and Panel Ideas Goals and topics of interest The field of digital forensics is rapidly evolving and continues to gain significance in both the law enforcement and the scientific community. Being intrinsically interdisciplinary, it draws upon a wide range of subject areas such as information & communication technologies, law, social sciences and business administration. We are pleased to announce the 3rd annual workshop on digital forensics and incident analysis graciously hosted by the University of Malaga, alongside ESORICS 2008 (http://www.isac.uma.es/esorics08/). The workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to present original, unpublished research results and innovative ideas. We welcome the submission of papers from the full spectrum of issues relating to the theory and practice of digital forensics and incident analysis. Areas of special interest include, but are not limited to: Digital forensics tools and applications Incident response and investigation Forensic standards and procedures Portable electronic device forensics Network forensics Data hiding and recovery Network traffic analysis, traceback and attribution Data mining and e-discovery and their corporate use Legal, ethical and policy issues related to digital forensics Digital evidence visualisation and presentation Integrity of digital evidence and live investigations Digital evidence chain of custody, storage and preservation Multimedia analysis Digital forensics case studies The Trojan defence Forensics issues of malicious code Best practices and case studies Anti-forensics Important dates Submission deadline: 30th April 2008 Notification to authors: 12th June 2008 Camera ready copies: 11th July 2008 Deadline for author registration: 11th July 2008 Submission details Authors are invited to submit original papers not previously published nor submitted in parallel for publication to any other conference, workshop or journal, which should be written in good English and with a very precise and concise presentation of no more than 12 pages in IEEE double-column format (http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs/pubs/confpubcenter/pdfs/samplems.pdf). Authors should upload their manuscripts (PDF or MS Word format) to the submissions management system at http://www.icsd.aegean.gr/wdfia08/openconf/. Ideas for an end-of-day panel (approx. one hour in duration) are also solicited, along with nominations for panellists. For inquiries please email wdfia08@aegean.gr. Keynote address by Simson Garfinkel, Naval Postgraduate School, California, USA Workshop proceedings Accepted papers will be included in the WDFIA 2008 proceedings, published by IEEE CS Press. The steering committee will nominate the best paper of the workshop to be awarded with a publication opportunity to a forthcoming volume of the Digital Evidence and Electronic Signature Law Review (http://www.digitalevidenceandelectronicevidencelawreview.org). Registration At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for the workshop by the deadline above and commit to presenting the paper, in order for the paper to be included in the proceedings. Authors may be associated with at most two papers. Delegates should follow the registration procedure in: http://www.aegean.gr/wdfia08. General co-Chairs Socrates Katsikas, University of Piraeus, Greece Ahmed Patel, University Kebangsaan Malaysia and University of Kingston, UK Programme co-Chairs Paula Thomas, University of Glamorgan, UK Theodore Tryfonas, University of Glamorgan, UK WDFIA Steering Committee Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Socrates Katsikas, University of Piraeus, Greece Spyros Kokolakis, University of the Aegean, Greece Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Iain Sutherland, University of Glamorgan, UK Theodore Tryfonas, University of Glamorgan, UK WDFIA 2008 Technical Programme Committee (to be completed) D. Bilar, Wellesley College, USA T. Chen, Southern Methodist University, USA N. Clarke, University of Plymouth, UK B. Crispo, University of Trento, Italy S. Furnell, University of Plymouth, UK J. Haggerty, Liverpool John Moores University, UK A. Irons, University of Northumbria, UK H. Jahankhani, University of East London, UK P. Kanellis, Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece M. Karyda, University of the Aegean, Greece T. Karygiannis, NIST, USA N. Kolokotronis, University of Peloponnese, Greece A. Konstadopoulou, University of Bradford, UK I. Kotenko, SPIIRAS, Russia C. Lambrinoudakis, University of the Aegean, Greece S. Mason, St Pauls Chambers, UK M. Merabti, Liverpool John Moores University, UK I. Mitchell, Middlesex University, UK L. Mitrou, University of the Aegean, Greece G. Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany G. Quirchmayer, University of Vienna, Austria G. Richard III, University of New Orleans, USA V. Roussev, University of New Orleans, USA P. Sommer, London School of Economics, UK D. Spinellis, Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece P. Tuyls, Philips Research Europe, The Netherlands S. Venkatesan, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA Z. Yu, Iowa State University, USA J. Zhou, Inst. For Infocom Research, Singapore