Subject Resource Guide for Computer Forensics

Selected and updated by reference librarians in support of the TC3 program in Computer Forensics. Selection criteria include quality, content, reliability and currency.

• Internet Resources
• Internet Registries
• Databases
• Periodicals
• Books

Internet Resources

General Information

• CERT - Located at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute, they study "internet security vulnerabilities, research long-term changes in networked systems, and develop information and training..."
• Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section - United States Department of Justice. Gives advice on reporting computer crime.
• FBI Cyber Investigations - Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Information Assurance Support Environment - Department of Defense's "one-stop shop for IA information."
• Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) - "Receiving, developing, and referring criminal complaints regarding cyber crime.
• Internet Resources for Computer Forensics - North Carolina Wesleyan College.
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) - Federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.

News, Security Alerts & Statistics

• Computer Crime Research Center (CCRC) - News portal
• Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC) - U.S. Department of Energy. Has informaion on Internet Hoaxes.
• DShield
• F-Secure Virus Description Database
• SANS (System Administration, Networking, and Security) Institute's Top 20 Internet Security Attack Targets. The Software Security Institute is a part of SANS.
• SecurityStats.Com - Repository of interesting computer security statistics, mostly gathered from other Internet resources.
• SEARCH The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics
• Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics - Supported by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics
• Symantec - Security alerts and news.

Organizations

• Cyber Law Enforcement Organization - "Network of law enforcement officers who specialize in cybercrime investigation, training other law enforcement officers and who assist cybercrime victims online."
• National Security Agency: Information Assurance - For Academia, Industry, and Government.

Internet Registries

Databases of IP address and AS number allocations

• Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC)
• African Internet Numbers Registry (AFRINIC)
• American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
• Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) - With Index by TLD Code (two letter country code).
• INTERNIC
• IP Index Encyclopedia
• Latin American and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry (LANIC)
• Reseaux Internet Protocol Européens (RIPE)

Databases

There are a number of useful resources available through the the library's Electronic Databases page.

• Academic Search Premier - Multi-disciplinary database containing full text for nearly 4,650 serials.
• Business and Company Resource Center - Up-to-date topical business information and company and industry intelligence on thousands of global companies.
• Business Source Premier - Business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications
• MasterFILE Premier - Full text for more than 1,730 general periodicals covering general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues.
• Military and Government Collection - Periodicals, academic journals and other content pertaining to all branches of the military. Nearly 300 journals and 245 pamphlets full text.
• Proquest databases including ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry and ABI/INFORM Global. ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry contains 750 business periodicals and newsletters with a trade or industry focus. ABI/INFORM Global searches 1800 worldwide business periodicals.
• Proquest Research Library - Broad range of subjects with more than 2,550 full text titles from 1971 onward.
• ScienceDirect Journals - Science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information.

Periodicals

View a complete list of periodicals on the topic of Engineering and Applied Sciences in print and online. Computer Science holdings include titles such as:

• Computer security update
• Computers & security
• IEEE transactions on dependable and secure computing
• Information security technical report
• Information systems security
• Infosecurity today
• Journal of Computer Security
• SC magazine
• Security

Also browse current issues of these titles, found in the library's periodical section and in some cases electronically:

• Computerworld
• Criminology
• FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
• IEEE Spectrum (print version only)
• InfoWorld
• MIT's Technology Review
• Nuts and Volts (print version only)
• PC Magazine
• PC World
• Police: The Law Enforcement Magazine (print version only)
• Police Chief (print version only)
• Security Management
• Smart Computing in Plain English (print version only)
• Wired

Books

Library of Congress Subject Headings

• Computer crimes
• Computer hackers
• Computer Industry
• Computer networks -- Security measures
• Computer security
• Cryptography
• Data protection
• Hacking

Cryptography

• Disappearing cryptography: information hiding: steganography & watermarking [TK5105.59 .W39 2002]
• Encyclopedia of cryptography and security [REF Z103 .E53 2005]
• Multimedia security: steganography and digital watermarking techniques for protection of intellectual property [QA76.9.A25 M86 2005]

Criminal Justice & Criminology

• Art of intrusion: the real stories behind the exploits of hackers, intruders, and deceivers [QA76.9.A25 M587 2005]
• Cybercrime and cyberterrorism: current issues [K5215 .C93 2003]
• New forensics: Investigating Corporate Fraud and the theft of intellectual property [HV8079.W47 A5 2003]

Privacy and Legal Issues

• Cybercrime: digital cops in a networked environment [HV6773.2 .C93 2006]
• Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age [KF1263 .C65S668 2004]

Programming & Network Design

• Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 unleashed [TK5105.8885.D74 R883 2006]
• Murach's ASP.NET 2.0 web programming with VB 2005 [TK5105.888 .B645 2006]
• Pragmatic Ajax: a Web 2.0 primer [TK5105.8885.A53 G44 2006]
• Head rush Ajax [QA76.73.J39 M35 2006]
• Code hacking: a developer’s guide to network security [TK5105.59 .C5795 2004]

Security Systems

• Protecting your PC [QA76.9.A25 B37734 2006]
• Information security: principles and practice [QA76.9.A25 S69 2006]
• Silence on the wire: a field guide to passive reconnaissance and indirect attacks [TK5105.59 .Z35 2005]

Reference Books (for use in the library only)

• Handbook of information security [REF TK5105.59 .H35 2006] - 3 volumes
• The Software encyclopedia [REF QA76.753 .S67] - 2 volumes
• Encyclopedia of computer science and technology [REF QA76.15 .H43 2003]
• Encyclopedia of computers and computer history [REF QA76.15 .E53 2001] - 2 volumes

Don't hesitate to ask a reference librarian for help in locating books and media in the TC3 Library Catalog. Material not owned by our library can be located and borrowed through the SUNY Union Catalog, a single search interface for 62 SUNY library catalogs and WorldCat, a wordwide database of library books and materials.

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Created by Olivia Nellums, March 2007

Last update: Monday, February 11, 2008