[en] Contamination of digital evidence: Understanding an underexposed risk

"... illustrate how easily digital evidence might be contaminated, resulting from a more or less convoluted trait transfer ...

"... might cause serious misinterpretation errors and, therefore, severely hamper the reconstruction of the deed (or incident)."

#DFRWS EU 2023 Best Student Paper Award

https://dfrws.org/presentation/contamination-of-digital-evidence-understanding-an-underexposed-risk/

#ResearchHighlights #forensics #dna #digitalforensics #contamination #infosec #inforensics

Until tomorrow, #Bonn is the center of the European #DigitalForensics community:

The renowned Digital Forensics Research Workshop EU (#DFRWS EU) is currently taking place at #UniBonn and is co-hosted by #Fraunhofer #FKIE.

#InfoSec #Inforensics #Research

https://dfrws.org/conferences/dfrws-eu-2023/

When I got my first job in #InfoSec #research in 1999, it was common to divide the topic into preventive (e.g., #crypto, #compliance), detective (#AV, #IDS) and reactive (#IR, #Inforensics) information security.

At the time, it was assumed that one person could be an expert on every single of these subtopics.

For me personally, detecting attacks by monitoring systems and networks was a fascinating topic. 1/4