[Nottingham] [FW: [compsci] MRL Visiting Researcher Lecture - 20th October]

[Iain Lane]

Greetings,

Might be interesting for some in the group - lecture on computer 
forensics from a real life copper.

Regards,
Iain

>Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:29:11 +0100
>Subject: [compsci] MRL Visiting Researcher Lecture - 20th October
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>Please see below information regarding the first in the this year's Mixed
>Reality Lab's Visiting Researcher Lecture Programme.
>
>I have also attached a flyer providing  information regarding the next 3
>lectures.
>
>Apologies for cross-posting.
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>MRL Logo
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>VISITING RESEARCHER LECTURE PROGRAMME
>
>MRL announce the first in their monthly Lecture Series for 2009/2010, which
>aims to invite senior researchers in industry and academia to present their
>research in the area of ubiquitous computing and identify areas for
>collaboration.
>
>20th October 2009 - 12.15pm in B Floor Conference Room - Sir Colin Campbell
>Building
>
>"Computer Forensics - Catching and Convicting the Electronic Criminal"
>
>Speaker: DC Paul Tew (Nottinghamshire Police and Open University)
>
>Computer forensics is a relatively new and expanding field of computer science
>in which Paul has been involved for the past 4 years. Computer forensics is
>closely related to computer security but picks up when the latter might have
>failed. It also involves areas not usually associated with security issues like
>the lone paedophile[cid] downloading unlawful images or a network of terrorists
>plotting some dreadful act. The gathering and analysis of evidential artefacts
>from computer systems can take a great deal of technical knowledge involving
>techniques akin to reverse engineering and other skills.
>
>The ultimate aim of computer forensics is the presentation of technical
>evidence in a court of law (civil or criminal). This evidence has to be
>delivered in a form that can be understood by the lay person and must conform
>to all the rules relating to evidence. Any technical reports must therefore
>fulfil the need to be simple and accurate but have the detailed evidence to
>support any conclusions.
>
>In this talk Paul will outline a criminal case from the point where information
>is first received, through to the final court case. En-route he will explain
>how proof is built up from artefacts left behind on the computer and how common
>defences such as trojans and viruses are dealt with.
>
>DC Paul Tew has been in the police force for 24 years, as a beat manager,
>police law trainer and after gaining a BSc in computing from the Open
>University, is currently working as a forensic analyst (computers). He has been
>involved in the successful prosecution of around one hundred offenders where
>the evidence has involved computer data and has given expert evidence at court
>on many occasions. He was heavily involved in the prosecution of Jonathan
>Hipkiss, the first person in Nottinghamshire (and only the third in the
>country) to be prosecuted for failing to disclose a password. Paul is also an
>Associate Lecturer at the Open University, lecturing on computer forensics and
>investigations, and acts as a Consultant to the Open University on the same
>subject.
>
>...followed by an opportunity to meet the speaker over drinks and buffet
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