Abstract

Dr. John Haggerty

Digital File Fingerprinting for Computer Forensic Analysis

Computer forensics is emerging as an important tool in the fight against crime. Increasingly, computers are being used to facilitate new criminal activity, or used in the commission of existing crimes.

The networked world has seen increases in, and the volume of, information that may be shared amongst hosts. This has given rise to major concerns over paedophile activity, and in particular, the spread of indecent images of children amongst this community.

This talk will first introduce the area of computer forensics. It will then present a novel scheme for the automated analysis of storage media for file fingerprints for digital pictures of interest. A case study of the application will be presented to demonstrate the applicability of the approach for identification and retrieval of malicious multimedia files.

The slides for John's talk are available in PDF format here