Algorithms for Automating Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) presents information on the gathering of information and extraction of actionable intelligence from openly available sources, including news broadcasts, public repositories, and more recently, social media. As OSINT has applications in crime fighting, state-based intelligence, and social research, this book provides recent advances in text mining, web crawling, and other algorithms that have led to advances in methods that can largely automate this process.

The book is beneficial to both practitioners and academic researchers, with discussions of the latest advances in applications, a coherent set of methods and processes for automating OSINT, and interdisciplinary perspectives on the key problems identified within each discipline.

Drawing upon years of practical experience and using numerous examples, editors Robert Layton, Paul Watters, and a distinguished list of contributors discuss Evidence Accumulation Strategies for OSINT, Named Entity Resolution in Social Media, Analyzing Social Media Campaigns for Group Size Estimation, Surveys and qualitative techniques in OSINT, and Geospatial reasoning of open data.

• Presents a coherent set of methods and processes for automating OSINT
• Focuses on algorithms and applications allowing the practitioner to get up and running quickly
• Includes fully developed case studies on the digital underground and predicting crime through OSINT
• Discusses the ethical considerations when using publicly available online data

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B019K7CN26
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Syngress; 1st edition (December 3, 2015)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 3, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 6734 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 213 pages

The emergence of the World Wide Web, smartphones, and computers has transformed the world and enabled individuals to engage in crimes in a multitude of new ways. Criminological scholarship on these issues has increased dramatically over the last decade, as have studies on ways to prevent and police these offenses. This book is one of the first texts to provide a comprehensive review of research regarding cybercrime, policing and enforcing these offenses, and the prevention of various offenses as global change and technology adoption increases the risk of victimization around the world.

Drawing on a wide range of literature, Holt and Bossler offer an extensive synthesis of numerous contemporary topics such as theories used to account for cybercrime, policing in domestic and transnational contexts, cybercrime victimization and issues in cybercrime prevention. The findings provide a roadmap for future research in cybercrime, policing, and technology, and discuss key controversies in the existing research literature in a way that is otherwise absent from textbooks and general cybercrime readers.

This book is an invaluable resource for academics, practitioners, and students interested in understanding the state of the art in social science research. It will be of particular interest to scholars and students interested in cybercrime, cyber-deviance, victimization, policing, criminological theory, and technology in general.

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The purpose of law is to prevent the society from harm by declaring what conduct is criminal, and prescribing the punishment to be imposed for such conduct. The pervasiveness of the internet and its anonymous nature make cyberspace a lawless frontier where anarchy prevails. Historically, economic value has been assigned to visible and tangible assets. With the increasing appreciation that intangible data disseminated through an intangible medium can possess economic value, cybercrime is also being recognized as an economic asset.

The Cybercrime, Digital Forensics and Jurisdiction disseminate knowledge for everyone involved with understanding and preventing cybercrime - business entities, private citizens, and government agencies. The book is firmly rooted in the law demonstrating that a viable strategy to confront cybercrime must be international in scope.

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Digital forensics deals with the acquisition, preservation, examination, analysis and presentation of electronic evidence.  Networked computing, wireless communications and portable electronic devices have expanded the role of digital forensics beyond traditional computer crime investigations.  Practically every crime now involves some aspect of digital evidence; digital forensics provides the techniques and tools to articulate this evidence. Digital forensics also has myriad intelligence applications. Furthermore, it has a vital role in information assurance -- investigations of security breaches yield valuable information that can be used to design more secure systems.

Advances in Digital Forensics XI describes original research results and innovative applications in the discipline of digital forensics.  In addition, it highlights some of the major technical and legal issues related to digital evidence and electronic crime investigations.

Themes and Issues
Internet Crime Investigations
Forensic Techniques
Mobile Device Forensics
Cloud Forensics
Forensic Tools

This book is the eleventh volume in the annual series produced by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 11.9 on Digital Forensics, an international community of scientists, engineers and practitioners dedicated to advancing the state of the art of research and prac

The book contains a selection of twenty edited papers from the Eleventh Annual IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics, held in Orlando, Florida in the winter of 2015. 

Advances in Digital Forensics XI is an important resource for researchers, faculty members and graduate students, as well as for practitioners and individuals engaged in research and development efforts for the law enforcement and intelligence communities.

Gilbert Peterson, Chair, IFIP WG 11.9 on Digital Forensics, is a Professor of Computer Engineering at the Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, USA.

Sujeet Shenoi is the F.P. Walter Professor of Computer Science and a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.

Digital Forensics: Threatscape and Best Practices surveys the problems and challenges confronting digital forensic professionals today, including massive data sets and everchanging technology. This book provides a coherent overview of the threatscape in a broad range of topics, providing practitioners and students alike with a comprehensive, coherent overview of the threat landscape and what can be done to manage and prepare for it. Digital Forensics: Threatscape and Best Practices delivers you with incisive analysis and best practices from a panel of expert authors, led by John Sammons, bestselling author of The Basics of Digital Forensics.

• Learn the basics of cryptocurrencies (like Bitcoin) and the artifacts they generate
• Learn why examination planning matters and how to do it effectively
• Discover how to incorporate behaviorial analysis into your digital forensics examinations
• Stay updated with the key artifacts created by the latest Mac OS, OS X 10.11, El Capitan
• Discusses the threatscapes and challenges facing mobile device forensics, law enforcement, and legal cases
• The power of applying the electronic discovery workflows to digital forensics
• Discover the value of and impact of social media forensics

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Based on extensive research, this lays out the thinking of the most successful Digital Forensics knowledge experts, those who are adept at continually innovating and seeing opportunities.

This is the first place to go for Digital Forensics innovation - INCLUDED are numerous real-world Digital Forensics blueprints, presentations and templates ready for you to access and use.

Also, if you are looking for answers to one or more of these questions then THIS is the title for you:

How is digital forensics used?
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Digital Forensics: What are the best practices in computer incident response?
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What is the best way to get training in digital forensics as a beginner?
What are the different digital forensics tools and techniques to examine digital media? ...and much more…

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Linux Forensics is the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource for those wishing to quickly and efficiently perform forensics on Linux systems. It is also a great asset for anyone that would like to better understand Linux internals.

Linux Forensics will guide you step by step through the process of investigating a computer running Linux. Everything you need to know from the moment you receive the call from someone who thinks they have been attacked until the final report is written is covered in this book. All of the tools discussed in this book are free and most are also open source.

Dr. Philip Polstra shows how to leverage numerous tools such as Python, shell scripting, and MySQL to quickly, easily, and accurately analyze Linux systems. While readers will have a strong grasp of Python and shell scripting by the time they complete this book, no prior knowledge of either of these scripting languages is assumed. Linux Forensics begins by showing you how to determine if there was an incident with minimally invasive techniques. Once it appears likely that an incident has occurred, Dr. Polstra shows you how to collect data from a live system before shutting it down for the creation of filesystem images.

Linux Forensics contains extensive coverage of Linux ext2, ext3, and ext4 filesystems. A large collection of Python and shell scripts for creating, mounting, and analyzing filesystem images are presented in this book. Dr. Polstra introduces readers to the exciting new field of memory analysis using the Volatility framework. Discussions of advanced attacks and malware analysis round out the book.

Book Highlights

• 370 pages in large, easy-to-read 8.5 x 11 inch format
• Over 9000 lines of Python scripts with explanations
• Over 800 lines of shell scripts with explanations
• A 102 page chapter containing up-to-date information on the ext4 filesystem
• Two scenarios described in detail with images available from the book website
• All scripts and other support files are available from the book website

Chapter Contents

1. First Steps
   • General Principles
   • Phases of Investigation
   • High-level Process
   • Building a Toolkit
2. Determining If There Was an Incident
   • Opening a Case
   • Talking to Users
   • Documenation
   • Mounting Known-good Binaries
   • Minimizing Disturbance to the Subject
   • Automation With Scripting
3. Live Analysis
   • Getting Metadata
   • Using Spreadsheets
   • Getting Command Histories
   • Getting Logs
   • Using Hashes
   • Dumping RAM
4. Creating Images
   • Shutting Down the System
   • Image Formats
   • DD
   • DCFLDD
   • Write Blocking
   • Imaging Virtual Machines
   • Imaging Physical Drives
5. Mounting Images
   • Master Boot Record Based Partions
   • GUID Partition Tables
   • Mounting Partitions In Linux
   • Automating With Python
6. Analyzing Mounted Images
   • Getting Timestamps
   • Using LibreOffice
   • Using MySQL
   • Creating Timelines
7. Extended Filesystems
   • Basics
   • Superblocks
   • Features
   • Using Python
   • Finding Things That Are Out Of Place
   • Inodes
   • Journaling
8. Memory Analysis
   • Volatility
   • Creating Profiles
   • Linux Commands
9. Dealing With More Advanced Attackers
10. Malware
    • Is It Malware?
    • Malware Analysis Tools
    • Static Analysis
    • Dynamic Analysis
    • Obfuscation
11. The Road Ahead
    • Learning More
    • Communities
    • Conferences
    • Certifications

Digital forensics and multimedia forensics are rapidly growing disciplines whereby electronic information is extracted and interpreted for use in a court of law. These two fields are finding increasing importance in law enforcement and the investigation of cybercrime as the ubiquity of personal computing and the internet becomes ever-more apparent. Digital forensics involves investigating computer systems and digital artefacts in general, while multimedia forensics is a sub-topic of digital forensics focusing on evidence extracted from both normal computer systems and special multimedia devices, such as digital cameras.

This book focuses on the interface between digital forensics and multimedia forensics, bringing two closely related fields of forensic expertise together to identify and understand the current state-of-the-art in digital forensic investigation. Both fields are expertly attended to by contributions from researchers and forensic practitioners specializing in diverse topics such as forensic authentication, forensic triage, forensic photogrammetry, biometric forensics, multimedia device identification, and image forgery detection among many others.

Key features:

• Brings digital and multimedia forensics together with contributions from academia, law enforcement, and the digital forensics industry for extensive coverage of all the major aspects of digital forensics of multimedia data and devices
• Provides comprehensive and authoritative coverage of digital forensics of multimedia data and devices
• Offers not only explanations of techniques but also real-world and simulated case studies to illustrate how digital and multimedia forensics techniques work
• Includes a companion website hosting continually updated supplementary materials ranging from extended and updated coverage of standards to best practice guides, test datasets and more case studies

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Just as a professional athlete doesn’t show up without a solid game plan, ethical hackers, IT professionals, and security researchers should not be unprepared, either. The Hacker Playbook provides them their own game plans. Written by a longtime security professional and CEO of Secure Planet, LLC, this step-by-step guide to the “game” of penetration hacking features hands-on examples and helpful advice from the top of the field.

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From “Pregame” research to “The Drive” and “The Lateral Pass,” the practical plays listed can be read in order or referenced as needed. Either way, the valuable advice within will put you in the mindset of a penetration tester of a Fortune 500 company, regardless of your career or level of experience.

This second version of The Hacker Playbook takes all the best "plays" from the original book and incorporates the latest attacks, tools, and lessons learned. Double the content compared to its predecessor, this guide further outlines building a lab, walks through test cases for attacks, and provides more customized code.

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