Citizens' Campus: Digital forensics – solving crimes through digitization

Digital forensics is more than the evaluation of digital evidence and the search for digital traces. Digitalization has changed our lives dramatically. The use of smartphones and intelligent devices in everyday life and at work, as well as cameras in public spaces, have not only made our lives "smarter", but have also changed the opportunities for criminals. Criminals use these devices to plan, prepare and carry out crimes. Forensics as a science of crime investigation must respond to this by using new methods and face up to these challenges. The role of digital forensics will be explained using selected cases.

What role does digital forensics play in the overall construct of analog and digital traces? In biology, the term missing link describes links in evolution. Is digitalization precisely the link between digital and analogue forensics? How can digitalization be used to turn digital and analogue forensics into a holistic science?

The conclusion at the end will be: "Only those who think digital and analog traces at the same time will be successful."

Speaker Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dirk Labudde holds the Chair of Forensics at the University of Applied Sciences Mittweida.

Admission: 5 euros