Dear Colleagues,

The changing paradigm has become an inevitable aspect of modern digital forensics. New types of hardware, software, and services are frequently being introduced, meaning that examiners always need to have new methods and tools against emerging challenges in digital forensics. Therefore, there is a need for advanced forensic techniques to support efficient cybercrime investigations and incident response, which requires novel approaches for automated and integrated analysis on digital traces from multiple different types of sources.

This Special Issue invites submissions related to theoretical approaches or practical applications of all aspects of digital forensics, including but not limited to the following topics of specific interest:

• Artificial intelligence/machine learning applied to digital forensics
• Automated tool development for digital forensics
• Blockchain technologies in digital forensics
• Case studies involving digital evidence
• Cloud data acquisition
• Cyber threat intelligence
• Cyberphysical system analysis
• Darknet investigation
• Data fragment forensics
• Data recovery and reassembly
• Data visualization in digital forensics
• Dataset development for research, training, education, and tool testing
• Electronic document analysis
• Event correlation mining
• Event reconstruction and user behavior analysis
• Infotainment forensics
• Internet-of-Things forensics
• Malware detection and analysis
• Maritime digital forensics
• Memory acquision and analysis
• Mobile and embedded device forensics
• Multimedia analysis
• New versions of operating systems and applications
• Social network mining
• Standardized representation of digital forensic information
• Storage device, partition, volume and filesystem forensics
• Text data mining (e.g., topic modeling)
• Tool testing methodology

Prof. Dr. Sangjin Lee
Guest Editor

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• Cyberattack analysis
• Data analysis and mining
• Data recovery
• Digital forensics
• Incident response