CC6003 Digital Crime Investigation Report

The assignment requires students to write a technical report on one of the given topics related to digital crime investigation, such as digital/cyber crime evolution, detection, and prevention or computer forensics. The report should be around 1500 words in MS Doc file format, presenting technical content with a literature review from various sources, including lecture slides, textbooks, industrial standards, research papers, and web resources.

MODULE: CC6003 DIGITAL CRIME INVESTIGATION
• technical report in about 1500 words
• MS Doc file only
This technical report should be the culmination of good literature review work
carried out through using a wide mix of sources: lecture slides, textbooks,
industrial standards and guidelines, research papers, and web resources.
It should present the appropriate background on the topic area of interest. It
should also present technical content in relative depth looking at all the issues
concerned. The report needs an introduction at the beginning and a
conclusion at the end. A list of resources referenced and a separate
bibliography should be produced in the Harvard/IEEE reference format.
The key texts indicated in the module specification, specialist journals, and
various Web sites, such as Computer Forensics, Cybercrime and Steganography
Resources (http://www. forensics.nl/), Computer Crime Research Centre
(http://www.crime-research.org/), Uniting Forensic Computing Practitioners!
(http://www.f3.org.uk/), and The Metasploit Project Web site (http://
http://www.metasploit.com/), etc. provide a good guidance in terms of the
report content.
The technical report is to be based on one of the topics listed below, Choose
one topic to write about:
1. digital/cyber crime evolution, detection, and prevention
2. real-time analytical techniques to detect security events
3. computer forensics and anti-forensics
4. Metasploit and its applications in pentest and anti-forensics
5. data hiding and detection techniques
6. techniques and tools for elimination of digital evidence
7. the medium and techniques in information hiding
8. steganography and steganalytical techniques
9. digital watermarking and media signature
10. direct attacks against computer forensic tools
11. covert channel analysis and data hiding in TCP/IP

MUST BE 1500 WORDS
Marking Scheme
The coursework marks are composed of the following (Total 100 marks)
1. academic challenge/originality 10 marks
2. analysis/research 35 marks
3. critical reflection and conclusion 15 marks
4. clarity of expression and readability 15 marks
5. construction and presentation of the document 15 marks
6. reference and bibliography 10 marks