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Where: Chicago, Illinois, USA.

When: 8-10 May 2008

What: World’s first conference to be dedicated to performing Mobile Device Forensics.

How much:  Registration prior to March 1, 2008: $250 and after $300USD

More details can be found on the official website:

http://mobileforensicsworld.com/

Speakers include:
Rick Ayers, NIST
Sam Brothers, CBP
Michael Harrington, MSP
Wayne Jansen, NIST
Gary Kessler, Champlain College
Ben LeMere, USCG
Kyle Lutes, Purdue University
Agents from Matrix Solutions
Kevin Mansell, Control-F
Rick Mislan, Purdue University
Lee Reiber, MFI
Amber Schroader, Paraben
Greg Smith, TrewMTE
Workshop Sessions in:
Cellebrite UME36
Cellular Data Resources
Control-F
CSurv Cell Site Analysis
DataPilot
Pandora’s Box
Paraben Forensics
Project-A-Phone

The First International Conference on Forensic Applications and Techniques in Telecommunications, Information and Multimedia will be held in Adelaide, South Australia from January 21st to 24th 2008. Call for Papers closes on September 28th 2007. Topics include data mining, multimedia source identification, image tamper detection and data carving. For more information please visit the conference website.

 

Where: Liverpool Library, U.K.

When: 5pm on 25th June 2007.

What: read the pdf brochure.

Who: http://www.afentis.com/

For more information, follow the link:

http://www.criminalsolicitor.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2450

Preliminary Call for Papers
 The First ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec ‘08)
          
When: March 31 - April 2, 2008, Alexandria, Virginia, USA.

WiSec aims at exploring attacks on wireless networks as well as techniques to thwart them.

Topics include:

- Naming and addressing vulnerabilities
- Key management in wireless/mobile environments
- Secure neighbor discovery
- Secure PHY and MAC protocols
- Trust establishment
- Intrusion detection, detection of malicious behavior
- Revocation of malicious parties
- Denial of service
- User privacy, location privacy
- Anonymity, prevention of traffic analysis
- Identity theft and phishing in mobile networks
- Charging
- Cooperation and prevention of non-cooperative behavior
- Economics of wireless security
- Vulnerability and attacker modeling
- Incentive-aware secure protocol design
- Jamming
- Cross-layer design for security
- Monitoring and surveillance
- Computationally efficient cryptographic primitives

The considered wireless networks encompass cellular, metropolitan,
local area, vehicular, ad hoc, satellite, underwater, and sensor
networks as well as RFID.

Important dates:

Paper submissions due: September 15, 2007
Notification of acceptance: December 10, 2007
Camera-ready version due: January 15, 2008
Conference: March 31 - April 2, 2008

WiSec results from the merger of three workshops:
- ESAS (European Workshop on the Security of Ad Hoc and Sensor
 Networks)
- SASN (ACM Workshop on the Security of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks)
- WiSe (ACM Workshop on Wireless Security)

For more information, go to:

http://discovery.csc.ncsu.edu/WiSec08/

The official site for Western Australia’s Digital Forensics Practitioner Interest Group (DFPIG) is now active. If you live in Western Australia and you are interested in Digital forensics, then you should come to our meetings in Edith Cowan University. For times and dates, please visit the official site at:

http://www.dfpig.net/

The Mobile Forensics blog by Michael Harrington has useful information on: SMS forensics, phone flashers, Faraday cages, forensics seizure procedures and much more. The site also includes posts on the forensic examination of BlackBerry devices. The blog was created in February 2007.

You can visit the blog here:

http://mobileforensics.wordpress.com/

The blog is frequently updated and links to Michael’s http://www.mobile-examiner.com/ website.  This site has online training and on-location training and it also has mobile forensic tools and a forum.