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The First International Conference on Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime (ICDF2C) was held in Albany from September 30 to October 2, 2009. The field of digital for- sics is growing rapidly with implications for several fields including law enforcement, network security, disaster recovery and accounting. This is a multidisciplinary area that requires expertise in several areas including, law, computer science, finance, networking, data mining, and criminal justice. This conference brought together pr- titioners and researchers from diverse fields providing opportunities for business and intellectual engagement among attendees. All the conference sessions were very well attended with vigorous discussions and strong audience interest. The conference featured an excellent program comprising high-quality paper pr- entations and invited speakers from all around the world. The first day featured a plenary session including George Philip, President of University at Albany, Harry Corbit, Suprintendent of New York State Police, and William Pelgrin, Director of New York State Office of Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure Coordination. An outstanding keynote was provided by Miklos Vasarhelyi on continuous auditing. This was followed by two parallel sessions on accounting fraud /financial crime, and m- timedia and handheld forensics. The second day of the conference featured a mesm- izing keynote talk by Nitesh Dhanjani from Ernst and Young that focused on psyc- logical profiling based on open source intelligence from social network analysis. The third day of the conference featured both basic and advanced tutorials on open source forensics.

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Full and Short Papers.- Digital Evidence Composition in Fraud Detection.- iForensics: Forensic Analysis of Instant Messaging on Smart Phones.- A Survey of Forensic Localization and Tracking Mechanisms in Short-Range and Cellular Networks.- SMIRK: SMS Management and Information Retrieval Kit.- Localization and Detection of Vector Logo Image Plagiarism.- Analysis of Free Download Manager for Forensic Artefacts.- On the Reliability of Cell Phone Camera Fingerprint Recognition.- Towards a New Data Mining-Based Approach for Anti-Money Laundering in an International Investment Bank.- Analysis of Evidence Using Formal Event Reconstruction.- Data Mining Instant Messaging Communications to Perform Author Identification for Cybercrime Investigations.- Digital Evidence Retrieval and Forensic Analysis on Gambling Machine.- Online Acquisition of Digital Forensic Evidence.- Criminal Defense Challenges in Computer Forensics.- Detecting and Preventing the Electronic Transmission of Illicit Images and Its Network Performance.- A Discretionary Access Control Method for Preventing Data Exfiltration (DE) via Removable Devices.- A Host-Based Approach to BotNet Investigation?.

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