​This book focuses on a wide range of breakthroughs related to digital biometrics and forensics. The authors introduce the concepts, techniques, methods, approaches and trends needed by cybersecurity specialists and educators for keeping current their biometrics and forensics knowledge. Furthermore, the book provides a glimpse of future directions where biometrics and forensics techniques, policies, applications, and theories are headed. Topics include multimodal biometrics, soft biometrics, mobile biometrics, vehicle biometrics, vehicle forensics, integrity verification of digital content, people identification, biometric-based cybercrime investigation, among others. The book is a rich collection of carefully selected and reviewed manuscripts written by diverse digital biometrics and forensics experts in the listed fields and edited by prominent biometrics and forensics researchers and specialists.

This book delves into the history of biometrics, the different systems that have been developed to date, problems that have arisen from these systems, the necessity of AI-based biometrics systems, different AI techniques developed to date (including machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, and pattern recognition), their potential uses and applications, security and privacy issues in AI-based Biometric systems, current trends in AI-based biometrics, and presents case studies of AI-based biometrics.

The past decade has witnessed a leap in the cyber revolution around the world. Significant progress has been made across a broad spectrum of terminologies used in the cyber world. Various threats have also emerged due to this cyber revolution that requires far greater security measures than ever before. In order to adapt to this evolution effectively and efficiently, it calls for a better understanding of the ways in which we are ready to embrace this change. Advances in Cyberology and the Advent of the Next-Gen Information Revolution creates awareness of the information threats that these technologies play on personal, societal, business, and governmental levels. It discusses the development of information and communication technologies (ICT), their connection with the cyber revolution, and the impact that they have on every facet of human life. Covering topics such as cloud computing, deepfake technology, and social networking, this premier reference source is an ideal resource for security professionals, IT managers, administrators, students and educators of higher education, librarians, researchers, and academicians.

As computer and internet technologies continue to advance at a fast pace, the rate of cybercrimes is increasing. Crimes employing mobile devices, data embedding/mining systems, computers, network communications, or any malware impose a huge threat to data security, while cyberbullying, cyberstalking, child pornography, and trafficking crimes are made easier through the anonymity of the internet. New developments in digital forensics tools and an understanding of current criminal activities can greatly assist in minimizing attacks on individuals, organizations, and society as a whole. Digital Forensics and Forensic Investigations: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice addresses current challenges and issues emerging in cyber forensics and new investigative tools and methods that can be adopted and implemented to address these issues and counter security breaches within various organizations. It also examines a variety of topics such as advanced techniques for forensic developments in computer and communication-link environments and legal perspectives including procedures for cyber investigations, standards, and policies. Highlighting a range of topics such as cybercrime, threat detection, and forensic science, this publication is an ideal reference source for security analysts, law enforcement, lawmakers, government officials, IT professionals, researchers, practitioners, academicians, and students currently investigating the up-and-coming aspects surrounding network security, computer science, and security engineering.

Digital forensics deals with the acquisition, preservation, examination, analysis and presentation of electronic evidence. Computer networks, cloud computing, smartphones, embedded devices and the Internet of Things 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 in legal proceedings. Digital forensics also has myriad intelligence applications; furthermore, it has a vital role in cyber security -- investigations of security breaches yield valuable information that can be used to design more secure and resilient systems. Advances in Digital Forensics XVIII 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. The areas of coverage include: This book is the eighteenth 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 practice in digital forensics. The book contains a selection of eleven edited papers from the Eighteenth Annual IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics, a fully-virtual event held in the winter of 2022.

This volume LNCS 14252 constitutes the refereed proceedings of 25th International Conference on Information and Communications Security, ICICS 2023, held in Tianjin, China, during November 18–20, 2023. The 38 full papers presented together with 6 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 181 submissions. The conference focuses on: Symmetric-Key Cryptography; Public-Key Cryptography; Applied Cryptography; Authentication and Authorization; Privacy and Anonymity; Security and Privacy of AI; Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies; and System and Network Security.