XII Brazilian Symposium on Information and
Computer System Security (SBSeg 2012)
19-22 November  2012
Curitiba, PR, Brazil
http://sbseg2012.ppgia.pucpr.br/
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Call for papers 
Computer Forensics Workshop (WFC)
22/11/2012 (Thursday)


In 2012, as an innovation, the Brazilian Symposium on Information 
and Computer System Security (SBSeg) will host a satellite event 
called Computational Forensics Workshop (WFC). The event will bring 
together researchers, experts and academics from both the IT area 
as well as the area of Law.

On one hand, Computer Science and Informatics bring the technique,
methods and security required in all types of jobs, operations, 
research and related activities in Computer Forensics. On the other 
hand, the Law brings the legal aspects, legislation and the 
implications on the Brazilian Society arising from diverse wrongdoing 
and illegal activities.  

Computational Forensics deals with most relationships of 
onventional society going from the traditional forms to the digital 
form. Thus, traditional social problems break boundaries of the 
everyday real world and step into the digital world raising several 
new technical and legal problems. Problems such as privacy 
threatening, security breaches, hacking, libelous or defamatory 
e-mails, pornography, cyber bulling, illegal software, music and 
movies sharing, among other problems that have become part of 
our new reality.

Computational Forensics refers to the science whose goal is to provide
methods to promote the collection, preservation, validation, 
identification, analysis, interpretation, documentation and 
presentation of evidence derived from digital sources, with the 
purpose of facilitate or, in some cases, to reconstruct the aspects 
related to an event. In such cases, appropriate methodologies 
for the recovery and reproduction of facts must necessarily be studied
and analyzed.

On the other hand, the problems arising from the misuse of 
information and communication technologies require the proof of 
facts that may be brought into court for the appropriate attribution of 
responsibility. It is therefore paramount that technical and legal 
aspects are studied in order to produce good and high standard 
practices. 

In this context, the WFC will host speakers from various regions of 
Brazil, and also will feature panelists who specialize in Computational
Forensics, as well as professionals working in Digital Rights, 
Information Technology, Security, and prosecutors, the judiciary, the 
Police and the Federal Institute of Criminology.

Thus, Computational Forensics plays an important role and has been 
regarded as a fundamental part of technology-based investigation. 
In this context, the WFC and SBSeg Organizing  Committee invites 
you to actively participate in this event by submitting articles on the 
topics listed below. We emphasize that topics not listed here may 
also be considered. Finally, we invite all interested parties to submit 
their contributions.

Themes:

- Digital Document Forensics;
- Computer Networks and Security Forensic Aspects;
- Computational Forensics Legal Aspects; 
- Attacks on Biometric Systems (Spoofing); 
- Electronic Crimes; 
- Pornography and Child Pornography Detection; 
- Violence Detection; 
- Computational Forensics Theoretical Foundations; 
- Management of Information Security; 
- Collection of Digital Evidence; 
- Steganography and Steganalysis; 
- Forensic Aspects in Cloud Computing; 
- Electronics and Surveillance CCTVs;

Key Dates

Paper Submission: July 18th, 2012
Author Notifications: September 8th, 2012
Final Paper Version (Camera Ready): September 16th, 2012

Computational Forensics Workshop Chairs
Anderson Rocha, UNICAMP (anderson at ic dot unicamp dot br)
Cinthia Freitas, PUCPR (cinthia at ppgia dot pucpr dot br)