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Computer Forensics Challenges

By Ben Britt
PRINCETON MACINTOSH USERS GROUP
CONTACT:        Alan Fox
PRINCETON, NJ  08540
PHONE 973-912-7725
EMAIL:     [email protected]
PMUG site: http://pmug-nj.org/
TOPIC:  Computer Forensics Challenges
SPEAKER: Rebecca Mercuri, Ph.D.
LOCATION: Computer Science Building, room 104, (Olden St) Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.   See http://pmug-nj.org/  for map and directions. 
WHEN: Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 7:30 pm
Although forensics is a well-established discipline in biology, medicine, physics, materials and other sciences, its applications to computing are still relatively new. The television shows NUMB3RS and CSI have helped popularize the field by providing insight into algorithmic methods used to solve crimes. While digital data is now ubiquitous to everyday life, computer forensics involves much more than simply recovering and reviewing files found on electronic media.
Rebecca Mercuri, Ph.D. will overview the legal and technical issues that expert witnesses need to consider when preparing testimony for court, examples of Mac casework and UNIX-based forensic software, as well as socio-political problems related to the investigation of electronic voting systems.
About the presenter…
Rebecca Mercuri is the lead forensic expert at Notable Software, Inc., the company she founded in 1981. Her caseload has included matters involving contraband, child endangerment, murder, computer viruses and malware, wrongful work termination, class-action suits, copyright and patent infringement, and election recounts (most notably Bush vs. Gore). She received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, after having defended her Doctoral Dissertation "Electronic Vote Tabulation: Checks & Balances" coincidentally in the month before the 2000 Presidential election. Dr. Mercuri has provided formal testimony and comment to the House Science Committee, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, the Election Assistance Commission, the National Institute of Standards and Technologies, the U.K. Cabinet, and numerous state legislatures and municipal bodies.
PMUG also provides monthly Intermediate special interest group (a cozier Q&A session that’s very popular) in smaller nearby room.
Also a beginners special interest group meets prior to the general meeting in the same room. Both meet at 6:30 before the general meeting