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Cybercrime, Digital Investigations and Digital Forensics
Seminar held by lawyer Giuseppe Vaciago - 23 october 2012
Slides of the seminar:download
On October 23 at 9:30 am, the lawyer Giuseppe Vaciago will hold a seminar on Cybercrime, Digital Investigations and Digital Forensics at the Aula Magna of the Faculty of Economics (University of Cagliari - V.le S. Ignazio, 74)
Registration is required to attend the event.
Seminar. The Internet is now extremely used in modern society. The traditional communication systems used in commercial transactions are disappearing and, more recently, also in the relationship between citizens and Public Administration are appearing efficient digital communication systems.
A consequence of this exponential growth of the Internet is the increase of digital crimes. Objective of the meeting is to demonstrate how the interaction between law and technology is increasingly necessary to provide a prompt response to cybercrime. At the same time Giuseppe Vaciago will talk about the respect of the fundamental guarantees of the people in the areas of digital investigations and digital forensics (eg right to privacy and confidentiality of correspondence).
Topics.
- Emerging cybercrime trends
- Digital investigation
- Data retention
- Cloud computing
- Privacy
Giuseppe Vaciago. A lawyer since 2002, Giuseppe focuses on criminal law relating to new technology, and corporate criminal law as well as advising on the drafting of organizational models pursuant to Italian law 231/01; he acts for a number of leading national and international companies in the IT sector.
Giuseppe has a PhD in Digital Forensics from the University of Milan-Bicocca and lectures in IT law at the University of Insubria. A Visiting Scholar at Standford Law School and Fordham Law School in New York, he has also been invited to speak on a number of occasions by the most prestigious Italian universities as well as universities abroad.
Giuseppe is the author of a number of Italian university textbooks including “Computer Crimes” (jointly with the Milan Finance Police) and “Organization, Management and Control Models pursuant to Law 231/01″.
Cybercrime, Digital Investigations and Digital Forensics
Seminario a cura dell'Avv. Vaciago - 23 ottobre 2012
Slides dell'evento: download.
Il 23 Ottobre 2012 (dalle ore 9:30 alle 11:00) l'avvocato Giuseppe Vaciago ha tenuto il seminario Cybercrime, Digital Investigations and Digital Forensics presso l'Aula Magna della Facoltà di Facolta' di Scienze Economiche, Giuridiche e Politiche (Università di Cagliari), V.le S. Ignazio, 74, piano terra.
Per la partecipazione al seminario è richiesta la registrazione gratuita, effettuabile in questa pagina.
Il seminario. La società moderna sta diventando sempre più dipendente da Internet. I tradizionali sistemi di comunicazione utilizzati nelle transazioni commerciali e, ultimamente, anche nel rapporto tra cittadino e Pubblica Amministrazione stanno scomparendo per dare spazio ai più efficienti sistemi di comunicazione digitale. Una delle conseguenze di questa crescita esponenziale della Rete è l'aumento dei crimini direttamente o indirettamente imputabili all'utilizzo delle nuove tecnologie. La
presenza di infrastrutture di comunicazione che garantiscono l'anonimato, il crescente utilizzo di servizi di cloud computing e i
sistemi di cifratura rendono particolarmente difficile sia individuare una prova digitale (digital investigation), che acquisirla in modo che la stessa non venga alterata (digital forensics). Inoltre, un’indagine digitale può avere ripercussioni sul diritto di difesa riconosciuto all’imputato (ad esempio, il diritto al contraddittorio nella formazione della prova o il diritto di non rendere dichiarazioni autoincriminanti) su alcuni diritti fondamentali dell’individuo (ad esempio il diritto alla riservatezza o il diritto alla segretezza della corrispondenza).
Obiettivo dell’incontro è di dimostrare come l’interazione tra diritto e tecnologia sia sempre più necessaria per fornire una pronta risposta al pericolo del cybercrime e, al contempo, rispettare le garanzie fondamentali dell'individuo.
Topics.
- Emerging cybercrime trends
- Digital investigation
- Data retention
- Cloud computing
- Privacy
L'avvocato Vaciago. Avvocato iscritto all’Ordine degli Avvocati di Milano dal 2002. Le aree di specializzazione sono il diritto penale delle nuove tecnologie, il diritto penale societario e la consulenza finalizzata alla redazione dei compliance program ai sensi del D.lgs. 231/01. Ha prestato la sua attività professionale per alcune importanti società nazionali e internazionali nel settore IT.
Ha conseguito un PHD in Digital Forensics all’Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca ed è docente di informatica giuridica presso l’Università degli Studi dell’Insubria. Ha frequentato in qualità di Visiting Scholar la Stanford Law School e la Fordham Law School di New York. Ha partecipato a numerosi convegni presso le più prestigiose Università italiane ed estere.
È autore di numerose pubblicazioni di carattere universitario tra cui “Computer Crimes” e “Modelli di organizzazione gestione e controllo ai sensi del D.lgs. 231/01”.
International Fingerprint Liveness Detection Competition - Seconda Edizione
LivDet 2011 è aperta a tutte le istuzioni accademiche e alle industrie interessate a proporre delle soluzioni per la rilevazione della vitalità delle impronte. Ogni partecipante è invitato a sottomettere: (1) un algoritmo software di liveness detection e/o (2) un sistema hardware o software. Le performance dei sistemi software verranno valutate utilizzando un dataset di immagini di impronte "fake" e "live". Viceversa, i sistemi hardware verranno valutati utilizzando un insieme di soggetti live e di spoof samples.
Deadlines
LivDet Registration - 1 Aprile 2011
Submission - 6 Maggio 2011
Second Edition of International Fingerprint Liveness Detection Competition
A known vulnerability in fingerprint biometric systems is the use of materials with a physical representation of a fingerprint (fake fingers) to pose as another individual or to evade detection. Liveness detection is the use of additional hardware and/or software modules within a biometric system in order to certify the authenticity of the submitted fingerprints. The purpose of LivDet 2011 is to assess the state-of-the-art development in liveness detection.
LivDet 2011 is open to all academic and industrial institutions which have a solution for fingerprint liveness detection. Each participant is invited to submit: (1) a liveness detection software algorithm and/or (2) a hardware/software system. For software submissions, the performance will be evaluated by utilizing a sequestered dataset of "fake" and "live" fingerprint images. For system submissions, the team will evaluate the system utilizing a set of live subjects and spoof samples.
Deadlines
LivDet Registration - April 1st, 2011
Submission - May 6th, 2011
Fingerprint Collection
Visual Content-Based and Semantic Concept-Based Multimedia Indexing and Search
Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval
- Lunedì 20 September, 9-13
- Mercoledì 22 September 23, 9-13
Aula I, Padiglione Centrale - Facoltà di Ingegneria
Social media creation and use has skyrocketed in recent years and has become
an indelible part of our lives -- from the way we entertain and inform
ourselves to the way we communicate, socialize, or learn. More than
24 hours of new video content are uploaded on YouTube each minute,
and over 100M new photos are uploaded on Facebook every day. With
the tremendous growth of online multimedia content come great opportunities
but also great expectations and challenges. Users expect images and
video to be searchable as easily as text but technology has unfortunately
not kept pace.
In this short course, I will present the current state of art in multimedia
search, and will review the current approaches for visual content-based
as well as semantic indexing and search. Emphasis will be given on a new
promising direction of research, semantic concept-based retrieval, which
aims to boost both the effectiveness and usability of multimedia search.
I will describe techniques that leverage the computer's ability to
effectively analyze visual features of images and video, and apply statistical
machine learning techniques to classify and label visual scenes, objects,
people, and activities, automatically. I will also describe methods
that leverage such automatically generated labels to improve the quality
of multimedia indexing and search as well as to enable new applications
and content monetization models. The above approaches will be presented
and demonstrated in the context of a state-of-art multimedia analysis and
retrieval system developed at IBM Research (http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/imars).
Here is a preliminary synopsis and list
of topics to be covered (still subject to change but not by much):
1. Introduction and motivation
1.1 Opportunities of multimedia analysis
and retrieval
1.2 Challenges and basic problems
1.3 Example applications and demos
2. Content-based retrieval
2.1 Global Visual Features
- Color spaces and color features
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Color feature representations (color histograms, correlograms, moments)
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Texture features (structural, statistical, spectral)
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Edge and shape features
2.2 Local visual features
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Interest point detection
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Local descriptor representation
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Local point matching and spatial registration
2.2 Similarity measures and evaluation
metrics
2.3 Video segmentation and matching
2.4 Advanced techniques of content-based
retrieval
2.4 Video fingerprinting and near-duplicate
detection
3. Semantic concept-based retrieval
3.1 Definitions and motivation
3.2 Semantic concept vocabulary design
3.3 Semantic concept modeling and extraction
3.4 Multi-modal fusion and semantic
context exploitation
3.5 Retrieval by semantic concepts
3.6 Concept-based query expansion
4. Multi-modal video retrieval -- a
case study
4.1 Speech-based retrieval
4.2 Visual content-based retrieval
4.3 Semantic concept-based retrieval
4.4 Query-dependent multi-modal fusion
4.5 Performance evaluation (TRECVID)
4.6 Demos and other applications
Speaker Bio
Dr. Apostol (Paul) Natsev is a Research
Staff Member and Manager of the Multimedia Research Group at the IBM T.
J. Watson Research Center. He received his M.S. (1997) and Ph.D.
(2001) degrees in Computer Science from Duke University, and joined IBM
Research in 2001. At IBM, he leads research efforts on multimedia
analysis and retrieval, with an agenda to advance the science and practice
of systems that enable users to manage and search vast repositories of
unstructured multimedia content.
Dr. Natsev is a founding member and
senior researcher of IBM’s award-winning IMARS project on multimedia analysis
and retrieval, with pioneering contributions in the area of content-based
and semantic concept-based multimedia retrieval. He is an active
participant in the NIST TREC Video Retrieval (TRECVID) evaluation, where
his team has previously achieved top performance on TRECVID concept detection,
search, and video copy detection tasks (in 2006, TRECVID involved an estimated
380 researchers from almost 100 separate institutions world-wide). He
is also the chief architect and lead developer of an IMARS-based video
fingerprinting and copy detection system, which achieved top performance
in the 2007 CIVR Video Copy Detection Showcase.
Dr. Natsev is an author of more than
60 publications and 16 U.S. patents (7 granted, 9 pending) in the areas
of multimedia analysis, indexing and search, video fingerprinting, multimedia
databases, and query optimization. His work has been recognized with
several awards, including the 2004 Wall Street Journal Innovation Award
(for the IBM multimedia analysis and retrieval system), a 2005 IBM Outstanding
Technical Accomplishment Award, a 2005 ACM Multimedia Plenary Paper Award,
a 2006 ICME Best Poster Award, and the 2008 CIVR VideOlympics People's
Choice Award (for IMARS).
The website of the GIRPR Computer Security TC is now online
The website of the GIRPR Technical Commitee on Computer Security is now online. The website can be reached at the following address http://comsec.diee.unica.it/
Online il sito del Computer Security TC del GIRPR
E' online il sito del Technical Commitee del GIRPR su Computer Security. Il sito è raggiungibile al seguente indirizzo http://comsec.diee.unica.it/
Al momento i contenuti sono stati redatti grazie ai contributi provenienti, oltre che dal gruppo PRA, da Carlo Sansone e da Sebastiano Battiato. Tutti i membri del GIRPR sono comunque invitati a navigare nel sito e a inviare suggerimenti, proposte, e contributi. Gli argomenti elencati non sono esaustivi, e verranno via via integrati con i contributi di tutti i soci che vorranno aderire al TC.
2010 Doctoral theses of PRA people
On March 5, 2010 Ph.D. students of the PRA Group discussed the following theses:
- Davide Ariu : "Host and Network based Anomaly Detectors for HTTP Attacks"
- Battista Biggio: "Adversarial Pattern Classification"
- Biagio Freni: "Template Editing & Replacement: novel methods for Biometric Template Selection & Update"
- Igino Corona: "Detection of Web-based attacks"
- Ajita Rattani: Adaptive Biometric Systems based on Template Update Paradigm
Tesi di Dottorato 2010
Il giorno 5 Marzo 2010 gli studenti di Dottorato del Gruppo PRA hanno discusso le seguenti tesi:
- Davide Ariu : "Host and Network based Anomaly Detectors for HTTP Attacks"
- Battista Biggio: "Adversarial Pattern Classification"
- Biagio Freni: "Template Editing & Replacement: novel methods for Biometric Template Selection & Update"
- Igino Corona: "Detection of Web-based attacks"
- Ajita Rattani: Adaptive Biometric Systems based on Template Update Paradigm
