Using technology to support investigations in the electronic age: tracking hackers to large scale international computer fraud

Steve McFall

doi:10.1117/12.170642

7 March 1994 Using technology to support investigations in the electronic age: tracking hackers to large scale international computer fraud

Steve McFall

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Proceedings Volume 2102, Coupling Technology to National Need; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.170642
Event: Coupling Technology to National Need, 1993, Albuquerque, NM, United States

Abstract

With the increase in business automation and the widespread availability and low cost of computer systems, law enforcement agencies have seen a corresponding increase in criminal acts involving computers. The examination of computer evidence is a new field of forensic science with numerous opportunities for research and development. Research is needed to develop new software utilities to examine computer storage media, expert systems capable of finding criminal activity in large amounts of data, and to find methods of recovering data from chemically and physically damaged computer storage media. In addition, defeating encryption and password protection of computer files is also a topic requiring more research and development.

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Steve McFall "Using technology to support investigations in the electronic age: tracking hackers to large scale international computer fraud", Proc. SPIE 2102, Coupling Technology to National Need, (7 March 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.170642

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