Characterising network traffic for Skype forensics

Proceedings - 2012 3rd Cybercrime and Trustworthy Computing Workshop, CTC 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 19-27

  Azab, Ahmad ^a   Watters, Paul ^a   Layton, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

Author keywords

component; Forensics; Security; Skype; VoIP

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CRIME; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DIGITAL FORENSICS; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; INTERNET TELEPHONY; TRUSTED COMPUTING;

COMPONENT; FORENSICS; SECURITY; SKYPE; VOIP;

VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84877261395     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CTC.2012.14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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