BitLocker Drive Encryption has evolved from an optional feature into a hardware-integrated encryption framework widely deployed on modern Windows systems with TPM-based device encryption enabled by default. This survey is an in-depth analysis of the...
Modern electronic assembly relies on complex global supply chains, making verification of component authenticity and consistency with the intended design increasingly important. Existing automated inspection approaches typically formulate this as cla...
With the global expansion of urban infrastructure and development of 5G communication technology, advanced information and communications technology has been applied to power systems and the use of smart grids has increased. Smart grid systems collec...
As quantum computing advances, traditional digital forensic techniques face significant risks due to the vulnerability of classical cryptographic algorithms to quantum attacks. This review explores the emerging field of quantum digital forensics, wit...
In the landscape of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the integration of the Internet of Things (IoT) in smart-home technology presents intricate challenges for digital forensics. This study investigates these challenges, focusing on developing foren...
The Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) is located at the junction of the virtual network and physical reality in the Industrial Control System (ICS), which is vulnerable to attacks due to its weak security. Specifically, firmware tampering attacks t...
In recent years, there has been a dramatic change in attitude towards computers and the use of computer resources in general. Cloud and Edge computing have emerged as the most widely used technologies, including fog computing and the Internet of Thin...
Cyber–Physical Systems (CPS) connect the physical world (systems, environments, and humans) with the cyber world (software, data, etc.) to intelligently enhance the operational environment they serve. CPS are distributed software and hardware c...
The digital forensic tools used by law enforcement agencies for forensic investigations are mostly proprietary and commercially expensive; although open-source tools are used, the investigations conducted with such tools are not verified by reputable...
This study emphasizes the significance of estimating the layer thickness and identifying slicer programs in the realm of 3D printing forensics. With the progress in 3D printing technology, precise estimation of the layer thickness has become crucial....
With the development of computer hardware and deep learning, face manipulation videos represented by Deepfake have been widely spread on social media. From the perspective of symmetry, many forensics methods have been raised, while most detection per...
Physical damage to smartphones creates a persistent bottleneck in mobile forensic practice: once a device can no longer be accessed through its operating system, conventional logical acquisition fails, and investigators face a choice between acceptin...
Critical-infrastructure protection must distinguish the detection capability of artificial intelligence (AI) from its permission to act on physical processes. This article proposes Risk-Driven Deployment and Forensic Readiness for Critical Infrastruc...
(1) Background: The digital traces of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming increasingly important in criminal incidents, the violation of airspace and in military operations, thus making the reconstruction of the digital traces a critical tas...
Rapid technology advancements, especially in the past decade, have allowed off-the-shelf unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that weigh less than 250 g to become available for recreational use by the general population. Many well-known manufacturers (e.g...
In today’s connected world, there is a tendency of connectivity even in the sectors which conventionally have been not so connected in the past, such as power systems substations. Substations have seen considerable digitalization of the grid he...
Analog digital video recorders (DVRs) are still extensively used in small-to-medium business and home security systems, but there are special problems when it comes to forensic recovery of video evidence in these systems that are not covered by tools...
Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), as specialized task-oriented embedded field devices, play a vital role in current industrial control systems (ICSs), which are composed of critical infrastructure. In order to meet increasing demands on cost-eff...
Across the power grid infrastructure, deployed power transmission systems are susceptible to incipient faults that interrupt standard operations. These incipient faults can range from being benign in impact to causing massive hardware damage and even...
As Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) become integral to critical infrastructure, ranging from precision agriculture to emergency disaster recovery, their security becomes a matter of systemic resilience. This paper provides a comprehensive thematic sur...
In digital forensics, video becomes important evidence in an accident or a crime. However, video editing programs are easily available in the market, and even non-experts can delete or modify a section of an evidence video that contains adverse evide...
Neural networks for deep-learning applications, also called artificial neural networks, are important tools in science and industry. While their widespread use was limited because of inadequate hardware in the past, their popularity increased dramati...
Fingerprints are unique patterns used as biometric keys because they allow an individual to be unambiguously identified, making their application in the forensic field a common practice. The design of a system that can match the details of different...
Cybersecurity researchers and security analysts rely heavily on data to train and test network threat detection models, and to conduct post-breach forensic analyses. Comprehensive data-including network traces, host telemetry, and contextual informat...
Driven by the rapid escalation of its utilization, as well as ramping commercialization, Internet of Things (IoT) devices increasingly face security threats. Apart from denial of service, privacy, and safety concerns, compromised devices can be used...
Maritime transportation accounts for approximately 80 percent of global trade volume, with modern vessels increasingly reliant on Software-Defined Radio (SDR) technologies for communication and navigation. However, the very flexibility and reconfigur...
Introduction: Pedestrians lying on the road—collapsed through medical emergency, intoxication, or displacement following a prior collision—represent a disproportionately lethal and underaddressed category in road traffic safety. Forensic...
Various smart home companies are adding displays to smart home control devices and are also releasing smart home control functions for devices with displays. Since smart home management devices with displays are multifunctional, they can store more d...
This review article summarizes recent achievements in developing portable electrochemical sensing systems for the detection and/or quantification of controlled substances with potential on-site applications at the crime scene or other venues and in w...
Multispectral imaging (MI) techniques are being used very often to identify different properties of nature in several domains, going from precision agriculture to environmental studies, not to mention quality inspection of pharmaceutical production,...
Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without centralizing raw data, yet practical deployments remain vulnerable to security threats such as Byzantine model poisoning, stealthy backdoor implantation, and integrity attacks that...
The three-dimensional (3D) documentation of the Similaun mummy (Ötzi the Iceman) and the associated Copper Age equipment and clothing presents unique challenges due to diverse material properties and strict conservation constraints. This study p...
Despite the rapid expansion in the insurance industry, many issues remain unresolved and may require immediate action. As the insurance sector continues to evolve with the development of new technologies, it faces more challenges, especially related...
This study proposes an optimized footprint recognition model based on an enhanced StarNet architecture for biometric identification in the security, medical, and criminal investigation fields. Conventional image recognition algorithms exhibit limitat...
Digitally captured handwriting preserves pen trajectories and dynamic signals, but it also records hardware- and input-dependent properties that can confound forensic interpretation. This study revises a support vector machine (SVM) screening framewo...
The deployment of Motor Imagery Brain–Computer Interfaces (MI-BCI) is constrained by the inherent physiological variabilities of Electroencephalography (EEG) and parametric opacity. This paper presents a targeted technical audit of ten high-den...