UM Engineers Pioneer Forensics Tech To Help Catch Cyber Crooks
- From: J Flenner <varney@[redacted]>
- Subject: UM Engineers Pioneer Forensics Tech To Help Catch Cyber Crooks
- Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 08:50:50 EST
Technical research brief on ACC digital fingerprinting (pdf)
http://www.isr.umd.edu/ISR/research/researchbriefs/Wu_Digital_Fingerprinting.pdf
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Mar 08, 2006 | SpaceWar.com
UM Engineers Pioneer Forensics Tech To Help Catch Cyber Crooks
By Staff Writers
College Park MD - Researchers at the University of Maryland's A. James
Clark School of Engineering are creating new digital fingerprinting
technology that could help protect Hollywood's assets and identify
national security leak sources, all without impinging on legitimate uses.
As industry and government rely increasingly on digitized content, the
problem of protecting electronic assets is growing more and more
challenging. Recent headlines have documented a new generation of cyber
criminals who work together to engage in multimedia piracy, unauthorized
data dissemination and security leaks.
The Clark School's Min Wu, assistant professor of electrical and
computer engineering (ECE) and the Institute for Advanced Computer
Studies, and K.J. Ray Liu, professor in ECE and the Institute for
Systems Research, are developing innovative new "cyber forensics"
technologies that will not only protect digital resources but also trace
those who attempt to steal or misuse them through sophisticated
"collusion attacks," a common piracy method used by today's cyber
thieves. Collusion attacks occur when multiple users conspire to
electronically steal and distribute copyrighted or classified material,
diluting or erasing the original digital ID, or fingerprint, from the
stolen multimedia content to avoid implication.
Wu and Liu's new, interdisciplinary digital fingerprinting technology
involves anti-collusion codes (ACC). ACC protects multimedia content
without compromising the quality of the multimedia product or inhibiting
legitimate uses.
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