Digital forensics in the cloud era : the decline of passwords and the need for legal reform / Ben Martini, Quang Do and Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo.

Canberra : Australian Institute of Criminology, 2016.

87407

Cloud computing -- Law and legislation -- Australia.

Electronic evidence -- Law and legislation -- Australia.

Searches and seizures -- Australia.

The growing use of cloud services in the community means electronic evidence is moving beyond the physical jurisdiction of Australian law enforcement agencies. This paper looks at the legal and technical issues inherent in collecting electronic evidence from online and cloud services and the decline in use of stored passwords for apps in favour of authentication tokens. The most prevalent authentication token system, OAuth, is described and the utility of these tokens to forensic practitioners is discussed. The legal and technical aspects are considered, with a view to enhancing the capability of law enforcement and practitioners in an increasingly complex legislative and technical environment.

Title from title caption of PDF document (viewed on February 8, 2017).

"December 2016".

Includes bibliographical references.

1836-2206

0817-8542

1 online resource.