Digital Security and Privacy Protection: Trends and Applications, 2nd Edition

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Computer Science & Engineering".

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Dear Colleagues,

Since digital data, such as personal information, corporate business secrets, and important national facilities, are stored and utilized in the institution's server or cloud server, they are protected and managed by a high-level information protection program. Informatization and digitization in recent decades have fundamentally changed the way we work and have exposed security issues for individuals and businesses. With the technological development of new technologies such as IoT and AI, interest has been taken in the increase and utilization of data. In addition, new methods of acquiring data have been introduced. Data analysis is being studied for valuable uses of data, and it is being actively studied in academia, companies, and governments. However, since sensitive digital data can be used as ransomware, research is also needed to solve this problem.

This Special Issue aims to advance the state of the art by gathering original research in the field of software-intensive systems, fundamental connections between the theory of information protection and extensive research on security issues for digital assets and various IT systems and devices. There is no limit to the broad content of various computer engineering topics outside the subject of this Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. Cheonshik Kim
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Keywords

  • cybersecurity
  • privacy protection
  • information security
  • computing security
  • blockchain
  • big data analysis and applications
  • social network information
  • digital forensics
  • data hiding
  • watermarking

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Investigating Digital Forensic Artifacts Generated from 3D Printing Slicing Software: Windows and Linux Analysis
by Laura Garland, Ashar Neyaz, Cihan Varol and Narasimha K. Shashidhar
Electronics 2024, 13(14), 2864; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13142864 - 20 Jul 2024
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Although Three-dimensional (3D) printers have legitimate applications in various fields, they also present opportunities for misuse by criminals who can infringe upon intellectual property rights, manufacture counterfeit medical products, or create unregulated and untraceable firearms. The rise of affordable 3D printers for general [...] Read more.
Although Three-dimensional (3D) printers have legitimate applications in various fields, they also present opportunities for misuse by criminals who can infringe upon intellectual property rights, manufacture counterfeit medical products, or create unregulated and untraceable firearms. The rise of affordable 3D printers for general consumers has exacerbated these concerns, making it increasingly vital for digital forensics investigators to identify and analyze vital artifacts associated with 3D printing. In our study, we focus on the identification and analysis of digital forensic artifacts related to 3D printing stored in both Linux and Windows operating systems. We create five distinct scenarios and gather data, including random-access memory (RAM), configuration data, generated files, residual data, and network data, to identify when 3D printing occurs on a device. Furthermore, we utilize the 3D printing slicing software Ultimaker Cura version 5.7 and RepetierHost version 2.3.2 to complete our experiments. Additionally, we anticipate that criminals commonly engage in anti-forensics and recover valuable evidence after uninstalling the software and deleting all other evidence. Our analysis reveals that each data type we collect provides vital evidence relating to 3D printing forensics. Full article
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