Column: Analysis of Digital Traces

Column: Analysis of Digital Traces

Self-Reported Gambling Problems and Digital Traces

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), lists concealment as one of the symptoms of a gambling disorder. However, some transactions are more likely to leave permanent records of gambling transactions (credit, consumer loyalty schemes) than others (cash, Internet cash, Internet cafes, prepaid phones). An online survey of 815 participants recruited through...

Smart TV forensics: Digital traces on televisions

The Smart TV is becoming increasingly popular amongst consumers. Many consumers use a Smart TV to gain quick access to the Internet including video on demand, social networking and instant messaging. Most Smart TVs also provide capabilities to connect with external devices such as a USB flash drive, a mobile phone etc. All of these features make a Smart TV a potentially rich source of informati...

Dignité - DIGital Network Information & Traces Extraction

Web-based criminality like counterfeiting uses web applications which are hosted on web servers. Those servers contain a lot of information which can be used to identify the owner and other connected persons like hosters, shipping partners, money mules and more. These pieces of information reveal insights on the owner or provider of a fraud website, thus we can call them traces. These traces ca...

Column: The Physics of Digital Information