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  1. Fine-Tuning Large Language Models for Digital Forensics: Case Study and General Recommendations

    Article • Digital Threats Research and Practice, July 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mark Scanlon

  2. Systematic Literature Review of EM-SCA Attacks on Encryption

    Article • February 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mark Scanlon

  3. ChatGPT for digital forensic investigation: The good, the bad, and the unknown

    Article • Forensic Science International Digital Investigation, October 2023, Elsevier

    Mark Scanlon

  4. Offloading Network Forensic Analytics to Programmable Data Plane Switches

    Article • July 2023, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Mark Scanlon

  5. Digital forensic investigation in the age of ChatGPT

    Article • Forensic Science International Digital Investigation, March 2023, Elsevier

    Mark Scanlon

  6. Harder, better, faster, stronger: Optimising the performance of context-based password cracking dictionaries

    Article • Forensic Science International Digital Investigation, March 2023, Elsevier

    Mark Scanlon

  7. Data Exfiltration through Electromagnetic Covert Channel of Wired Industrial Control Systems

    Article • Applied Sciences, February 2023, MDPI AG

    Mark Scanlon

  8. A Novel Dictionary Generation Methodology for Contextual-Based Password Cracking

    Article • IEEE Access, January 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mark Scanlon

  9. Application of Artificial Intelligence to Network Forensics: Survey, Challenges and Future Directions

    Article • IEEE Access, January 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mark Scanlon

  10. PCWQ: A Framework for Evaluating Password Cracking Wordlist Quality

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mark Scanlon

  11. Identifying Internet of Things software activities using deep learning-based electromagnetic side-channel analysis

    Article • Forensic Science International Digital Investigation, December 2021, Elsevier

    Mark Scanlon

  12. TraceGen: User activity emulation for digital forensic test image generation

    Article • Forensic Science International Digital Investigation, October 2021, Elsevier

    Mark Scanlon

  13. How viable is password cracking in digital forensic investigation? Analyzing the guessability of over 3.9 billion real-world accounts

    Article • Forensic Science International Digital Investigation, July 2021, Elsevier

    Mark Scanlon

  14. Vec2UAge: Enhancing underage age estimation performance through facial embeddings

    Article • Forensic Science International Digital Investigation, April 2021, Elsevier

    Mark Scanlon

  15. A comparative study of support vector machine and neural networks for file type identification using n-gram analysis

    Article • Forensic Science International Digital Investigation, April 2021, Elsevier

    Mark Scanlon

  16. Retracing the Flow of the Stream: Investigating Kodi Streaming Services

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mark Scanlon

  17. A survey exploring open source Intelligence for smarter password cracking

    Article • Forensic Science International Digital Investigation, December 2020, Elsevier

    Mark Scanlon

  18. SoK

    Article • July 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mark Scanlon, Asanka Sayakkara

  19. Facilitating Electromagnetic Side-Channel Analysis for IoT Investigation: Evaluating the EMvidence Framework

    Article • Forensic Science International Digital Investigation, July 2020, Elsevier

    Mark Scanlon

  20. Assessing the Influencing Factors on the Accuracy of Underage Facial Age Estimation

    Article • June 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mark Scanlon

  21. Automated Artefact Relevancy Determination from Artefact Metadata and Associated Timeline Events

    Article • June 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mark Scanlon

  22. Smarter Password Guessing Techniques Leveraging Contextual Information and OSINT

    Article • June 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mark Scanlon

  23. Cutting Through the Emissions: Feature Selection from Electromagnetic Side-Channel Data for Activity Detection

    Article • Forensic Science International Digital Investigation, April 2020, Elsevier

    Mark Scanlon

  24. EMvidence: A Framework for Digital Evidence Acquisition from IoT Devices through Electromagnetic Side-Channel Analysis

    Article • Forensic Science International Digital Investigation, April 2020, Elsevier

    Mark Scanlon

  25. DeepUAge: Improving Underage Age Estimation Accuracy to Aid CSEM Investigation

    Article • Forensic Science International Digital Investigation, April 2020, Elsevier

    Mark Scanlon

  26. Improving Borderline Adulthood Facial Age Estimation through Ensemble Learning

    Article • August 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    David Lillis, Brett A Becker, Mark Scanlon, Aikaterini Kanta

  27. Methodology for the Automated Metadata-Based Classification of Incriminating Digital Forensic Artefacts

    Article • August 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mark Scanlon

  28. Leveraging Electromagnetic Side-Channel Analysis for the Investigation of IoT Devices

    Article • Digital Investigation, July 2019, Elsevier

    Mark Scanlon

  29. A survey of electromagnetic side-channel attacks and discussion on their case-progressing potential for digital forensics

    Article • Digital Investigation, June 2019, Elsevier

    Mark Scanlon

  30. Improving the accuracy of automated facial age estimation to aid CSEM investigations

    Article • Digital Investigation, April 2019, Elsevier

    Mark Scanlon

  31. Shining a light on Spotlight: Leveraging Apple's desktop search utility to recover deleted file metadata on macOS

    Article • Digital Investigation, April 2019, Elsevier

    Mark Scanlon

  32. Solid State Drive Forensics: Where Do We Stand?

    Article • December 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mark Scanlon

  33. Accuracy Enhancement of Electromagnetic Side-Channel Attacks on Computer Monitors

    Article • August 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mark Scanlon, Asanka Sayakkara

  34. Deduplicated Disk Image Evidence Acquisition and Forensically-Sound Reconstruction

    Article • August 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mark Scanlon

  35. Electromagnetic side-channel attacks

    Article • July 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mark Scanlon

  36. Deep learning at the shallow end: Malware classification for non-domain experts

    Article • Digital Investigation, July 2018, Elsevier

    Mark Scanlon

  37. Digital forensic investigation of two-way radio communication equipment and services

    Article • Digital Investigation, July 2018, Elsevier

    Mark Scanlon

  38. Evaluating Automated Facial Age Estimation Techniques for Digital Forensics

    Article • May 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mark Scanlon

  39. Hierarchical Bloom Filter Trees for Approximate Matching

    Article • The Journal of Digital Forensics Security and Law, January 2018, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University/Hunt Library

    Mark Scanlon

  40. Enabling Non-Expert Analysis OF Large Volumes OF Intercepted Network Traffic

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mark Scanlon

  41. Expediting MRSH-v2 Approximate Matching with Hierarchical Bloom Filter Trees

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mark Scanlon

  42. Privileged Data Within Digital Evidence

    Article • August 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mark Scanlon

  43. Message from the WCSF 2017 Workshop Chairs

    Article • August 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mark Scanlon

  44. EviPlant: An efficient digital forensic challenge creation, manipulation and distribution solution

    Article • Digital Investigation, March 2017, Elsevier

    Mark Scanlon

  45. Behavioral Service Graphs: A formal data-driven approach for prompt investigation of enterprise and internet-wide infections

    Article • Digital Investigation, March 2017, Elsevier

    Mark Scanlon

  46. Towards the Leveraging of Data Deduplication to Break the Disk Acquisition Speed Limit

    Article • November 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mark Scanlon

  47. Behavioral Service Graphs: A Big Data Approach for Prompt Investigation of Internet-Wide Infections

    Article • November 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mark Scanlon

  48. IPv6 security and forensics

    Article • August 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mark Scanlon

  49. Battling the digital forensic backlog through data deduplication

    Article • August 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mark Scanlon

  50. Increasing digital investigator availability through efficient workflow management and automation

    Article • April 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mark Scanlon

  51. Tiered forensic methodology model for Digital Field Triage by non-digital evidence specialists

    Article • Digital Investigation, March 2016, Elsevier

    Mark Scanlon

  52. On the Benefits of Information Retrieval and Information Extraction Techniques Applied to Digital Forensics

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mark Scanlon

  53. Network investigation methodology for BitTorrent Sync: A Peer-to-Peer based file synchronisation service

    Article • Computers & Security, October 2015, Elsevier

    Mark Scanlon

  54. Overview of the Forensic Investigation of Cloud Services

    Article • August 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mark Scanlon

  55. Towards the Forensic Identification and Investigation of Cloud Hosted Servers through Non-Invasive Wiretaps

    Article • August 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mark Scanlon

  56. Welcome Message from the WCSF 2015 Workshop Organizers

    Article • August 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mark Scanlon

  57. Project Maelstrom: Forensic Analysis of the BitTorrent-Powered Browser

    Article • The Journal of Digital Forensics Security and Law, January 2015, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University/Hunt Library

    Mark Scanlon

  58. Forensic Analysis and Remote Evidence Recovery from Syncthing: An Open Source Decentralised File Synchronisation Utility

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mark Scanlon

  59. BitTorrent Sync: Network Investigation Methodology

    Article • September 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mark Scanlon

  60. An analysis of BitTorrent cross-swarm peer participation and geolocational distribution

    Article • August 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mark Scanlon

  61. BitTorrent Sync: First Impressions and Digital Forensic Implications

    Article • Digital Investigation, May 2014, Elsevier

    Mark Scanlon

  62. Leveraging Decentralization to Extend the Digital Evidence Acquisition Window: Case Study on Bittorrent Sync

    Article • The Journal of Digital Forensics Security and Law, January 2014, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University/Hunt Library

    Mark Scanlon

  63. Digital Evidence Bag Selection for P2P Network Investigation

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mark Scanlon

  64. Universal Peer-to-Peer Network Investigation Framework

    Article • September 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mark Scanlon

  65. Peer-to-Peer Botnet Investigation: A Review

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mark Scanlon

  66. Online Acquisition of Digital Forensic Evidence

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mark Scanlon

  67. Investigating Cybercrimes that Occur on Documented P2P Networks

    Article • IGI Global

    Mark Scanlon