The Purdue University Cyber Forensics Lab is provides Education & Training,
Applied & Basic Research, and Investigative Support of Digital and Cyber Forensics.
Our strengths lie in the applied research and technological solutions for the technical and theoretical
challenges that exist in our specific domains. Our involvement with Local, State, and Federal
Law Enforcement Agencies, the Intelligence Community, and other Private Entities keeps us on the
cutting edge of identifying and engaging future trends and threats.
01.09.13 - Purdue Cyber Forensics Lab will be conducting three training courses for Law Enforcement officals this semester. The dates for these training courses are: Digital Evidence Triage: Feb 12-14 Basic Mac Forensics: March 26-27 Advanced Mac Forensics: May 7-9 The classes are $500 per student.
12.19.12 - Dr. Marcus Rogers was interviewed on WTHTR Channel 13 News Indianapolis regarding computer forensics and the Newtown shooting Link .
12.19.12 - Dr. Marcus Rogers has been quoted in Computer World regarding computer forensics and the Newtown shooting Link .
12.19.12 - Dr. Marcus Rogers was elected to the Board of the Consortium of Digital Forensic Specialists (CDFS) .
12.05.12 - Two of our PhD students gave a presentation at the National Academy of Sciences Distinctive Voices program. The link to the presentation can be found here .
11.16.12 - Dr. Marcus Rogers has been announced as the winner of this year's Digital and Multimedia Sciences Section of the American Academy of Forensic Science (AAFS) Outstanding Research Award .
11.15.12 - Dr. Samuel Liles was a speaker at the University Symposium and Open House at Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, New Mexico on August 1st & 2nd, 2012 where he talked on "Tips and opportunities in graduate school".
11.15.12 - Dr. Samuel Liles was a speaker at the Dynamic Defense Workshop at Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, New Mexico on September 5th & 6th, 2012. He talked on "Considerations of defense in depth".
11.06.12 - Dr. Samuel Liles will be speaking at the Institute for World Politics on November 9th, 2012. The details of the talk can be found here.
11.06.12 - Dr. Marcus Rogers has been gifted a sum of $50,000.00 by Intel to develop a cirriculum related to Information Security.
11.06.12 - Dr. Marcus Rogers will also be traveling to Norway, where he is a Keynote Speaker at the Norwegian Information Security Conference on November 20th, 2012.
11.06.12 - Dr. Marcus Rogers will be traveling to SRI this week to be a guest panelist/speaker for the DHS-SRI International Infosec Technology Transition Council to be held on Nov 8th, 2012 in Menlo park California.
11.05.12 - Dr. Samuel Liles spoke as a subject matter expert on Cyber Space and Security at NASEC 2012 at the United States Naval Academy on November, 4th, 2012. The details of the conference can be found here.
10.10.12 - Purdue Cyber Forensics will be hosting the 4th International ICST Conference on Digital Forensics & Cyber Crime (ICDF2C) on October 25th & 26th, 2012. Here is the link to the 4th ICDF2C conference Conference Link.
6.27.12 - Attention: The Submission deadline for the 2012 edition of ICDF2C has been extended to July 6th. Call for Papers can be found here
5.17.12 - Dr. Marcus Rogers will be traveling to Croatia May 27-June 1st as part of the American Speakers Program. Embassy Zagreb is proposing to utilize the American Speakers Program and partner with Purdue University’s Computer Information Technology Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation Cybercrime Division to promote academic, investigative, and legislative awareness in Croatia.
5.17.12 - Two of our PhD students, Eric Katz and Rachel Sitarz attended the USA Science Engineering Festival in Washington DC from April 27th - April 29th 2012.They were there on behalf of Purdue Marketing and CERIAS to promote science at Purdue and to get people interested in Cyber Forensics. They ran a table with a mock crime and had people attempt to solve a murder scenario. About 250,000 attendees attended this conference.
5.5.12 - On May 5th, 2012, Professor Rick Mislan has been invited to speak at the National White Collar Crime Center annual "State of the States" conference in Potomac, MD. He will be discussing Mobile Device security, forensics, and current research. The National White Collar Crime Center's (NW3C) mission is to provide training, investigative support and research to agencies and entities involved in the prevention, investigation and prosecution of economic and high-tech crime.
4.11.12 - Dr. Marcus Rogers is presenting as the Keynote Speaker on April 11th, 2012 at the 2012 HTCIA Minnesota Annual Conference that will be held in St. Paul, Minnesota.
4.4.12 - Dr. Marcus Rogers was invited to present a lecture on April 4th, 2012 at the University of Illinois Urbana Champagne at the Information Trust Institute.
4.3.12 - Dr. Marcus Rogers was awarded the 2012 Pillar of CERIAS award at the 13th Annual Information Security Symposium held at Purdue April 3-4th, 2012.
3.5.12 - Professor Rick Mislan provided technical and legal insight into Cell Phone Jammer technology in the recent CNN.com article Why the interest in Illegal Cell-Phone Jammers?. This article reports on a Pennsylvania citizen who used a Cell Phone Jammer on his daily bus ride to work. - March 5, 2012
11.09.11 - Visitors from Croatia: Senior law enforcement officials with the Croatian government visited the CF Lab yesterday.
11.01.11 - Purdue University will be hosting the 4th International ICST Conference on Digital Forensics & Cyber Crime (ICDF2C) in the year 2012.
11.01.11 - Mark Lohrum, one of the students in Master's Program was presented with an award for the best paper at the 3rd International ICST Conference on Digital Forensics & Cyber Crime (ICDF2C) which took place last week at Dublin, Ireland.
10.24.11 - Dr. Marcus Rogers will be a keynote speaker at the 3rd International ICST Conference on Digital Forensics & Cyber Crime (ICDF2C) this week at Dublin, Ireland.
10.24.11 - Dr. Marcus Rogers and Students from the CF lab will be travelling to Dublin this week to present 7 papers at the 3rd International ICST Conference on Digital Forensics & Cyber Crime (ICDF2C). Out of the 7 papers being presented, 6 papers will be presented by graduate students.
9.26.11 - Dr. Marcus Rogers will be presenting an invited talk at the Louisville Metro InfoSec Conference in Louisville Kentucky on September 29th, 2011. Dr. Marcus Rogers will also be presenting an invited lecture at the University of Louisville Speed School of Engineering on September 30th, 2011.
9.20.11 - Dr. Marcus Rogers along with our PhD student Eric Katz will be conducting a 3-day workshop for Law Enforcemet at Missouri this week.
9.20.11 - Dr. Marcus Rogers was interviewed in the latest issue of New Scientist . The article is called "Summer of lulz: The empire strikes back". View
8.31.11 - Professor Mislan will be speaking on the Growing Need for Triage of Mobile Digital Devices at the annual Techo Forensics Conference in Myrtle Beach, SC on October 31st, 2011. The link to the conference can be found below.
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8.16.11 - Professor Mislan is featured in the Purdue Today Profile. The link to the interview can be found below.
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7.25.11 - Dr. Marcus Rogers will be presenting a talk and will be conducting a workshop at Sandia National Labs this week.
7.25.11 - Dr. Marcus Rogers did a media interview while he was at Marshal University this month. The link to the interview can be found below.
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7.16.11 - Professor Mislan presented on the Growing Need for Triage of Mobile Digital Devices at the annual National Technical Investigators Association Conference in Tampa, FL.
6.3.11 - Professor Mislan presented on the Growing Need for Triage of Mobile Digital Devices at the annual Mobile Forensics Conference, in Myrtle Beach, SC.
5.16.11 - Professor Mislan presented on the Mobile Device Forensics at the annual InfoSec World Conference in Orlando, FL.
4.19.11 - Two of our PhD students, Rachel Sitarz and Tejashree Datar presented about online safety at the Youth for Youth Conference in Danville on April 18th 2011.
4.19.11 - Dr. Marcus Rogers has been named the associate editor-in-chief of the Journal of Digital Forensics Security and Law.
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4.19.11 - Link to online NW3C Journal. Dr. Marc Rogers writes a coloum for this journal every issue and NW3C is one of the sponsors of the lab.
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4.19.11 - Dr. Marcus Rogers was featured in a news segment on Fox 59 News on April 15th 2011. The news was related to cyber safety and an incident regarding an Indianapolis kids dance team's video ending up on an adult porn site. Dr. Marc Roger's interview was on the 10:00pm broadcast. View
4.19.11 - Dr. Marcus Rogers, Technical Editor-in-Chief of the Cyber Safety Series (Publisher Chelsea House) announces that the series will be released in the months of June, August, and September.
. The titles of the books are: 1) Internet Addiction and Online Gaming 2) Cyberpiracy 3) Cyberstalking and Cyberbullying 4) Living with Internet 5) Cyberpredators 6) Identity Theft
Our Mission:
To act as a National Lab for providing Cyber Forensics: - Education & Training,
- Applied & Basic Research,
- Investigative Support.
The Lab's mandate extends to the communities involved in the emerging scientific discipline of Digital and Cyber Forensics: - Law Enforcement,
- Private Sector, and
- Academia.
Purdue Cyber Forensic Lab is within the Computer & Information Technology Department