Journal & Conference Proceeding Publications

Grounded theory method is gaining importance as a method for theory building about a particular phenomenon. One of the most important benefits is the ability to derive theory from and within the context of data collected. In this research, the authors analyzed the data by using a grounded theory method, in which the cyber terrorism framework is drawn. This paper proposes a conceptual framework describing the components of cyber terrorism from six perspectives: Target, motivation, tools of attack, domain, method of action, and impact. The framework provides a baseline when establishing and defining the concept of cyber terrorism. The finding of this work contributes as strategic input to the policy and decision makers in formulating and developing better policy and strategy to counter cyber terrorism.

Incident response is a very important subject in IT security. Due to significant rise in the number of total reported incidents, there is a need for an intelligent based recommender system to assist the Incident Handlers (IH) in responding to cyber threats. This work explores the application of the Case-based Reasoning (CBR) methodology in order to develop a CBR recommender system for assisting IH in handling and responding to cyber security incidents. The architecture of the proposed system and the work done on case representation describing some sample cyber incident category are discussed in this paper.

With the continued growth of the Android mobile device market, the possibility of their use in unlawful and unethical activities will only continue to increase. While vendors and developers of a variety digital forensics tools, both commercial and open-source ones, make various assertions about the capabilities and the performance of their tools, the evaluation of digital forensics tools has been recognized as a challenging, and insufficiently examined research topic in the field of digital forensics. This paper discusses the experiment conducted to acquire data on an Android tablet using four popular digital forensics tools, namely EnCase, Mobile Phone Examiner Plus, Oxygen Forensic Suite and MOBILedit Forensic. The results of the experiment provide an understanding of the capabilities and limitations of each tool and offer an inside view for investigators to choose the appropriate digital forensics tools for acquiring internal data from an Android device.