Svein Willassen's Publications

Academic Works

• "A Model Based Approach to Timestamp Evidence Interpretation", to appear in New Technologies for Digital Crime and Forensics: Devices, Applications and Software, Chang-Tsun Li and Anthony T.S. Ho (ed), IGI Global, 2011
• "Detecting Intermediary Hosts by TCP Latency Measurements", with G. Singh, S. Mjolsnes and M. Eian, presented at 2nd Iternational ICST Conference on Digital Forensics & Cybercrime, Abu Dhabi, Oct. 2010
• "Datalagringsdirektivet - verdi i etterforskning og risikofaktorer for personvern", Datatilsynet, April 2010
• "Line based hash analysis of source code theft", Digital Signature and Electronic Evidence Law Review, 6:2009
• "A Model Based Approach to Timestamp Evidence Interpretation", International Journal on Digital Crime and Forensics, 1:2, 2009
• International Electronic Evidence, S. Mason, ed., 2008. Wrote the Chapter on Norway with H. Hjort.
• "Methods for Enhancement of Timestamp Evidence in Digital Investigations", Dissertation. Defended for the degree PhD at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology on May 16th, 2008. Opponents: Robert Kowalski (Imperial College) and Eugene Spafford (Purdue University).
• "Using Simplified Event Calculus in Digital Investigation", presented at ACM SAC 2008, Fortaleza, Brazil, March 2008
• "Finding Evidence of Antedating in Digital Investigations", presented at ARES 2008, Barcelona, Spain, March 2008
• "Hypothesis Based Investigation of Digital Timestamps", presented at the 4th IFIP WG 11.9 Workshop on Digital Evidence in Kyoto, Japan, January 2008
• "Timestamp Evidence Correlation by model based clock hypothesis testing", presented at E-Forensics 2008 in Adelaide, Australia, January 2008
• "Digital Forensics Research", with S. Mjølsnes, Telektronikk, 2005:1, pp. 92-97
• "Forensic analysis of Mobile Phone Internal Memory", presented at the 1st IFIP WG 11.9 Workshop on Digital Evidence in Orlando, Florida, 2005. Appears in Advances in Digital Forensics, Springer, 2005.
• "Forensics and the GSM mobile telephone system", International Journal on Digital Evidence 2:1, 2003.
• "Computer Crime in Norway - a dark figures survey", with B. Solstad. Norwegian National Computer Crime Unit, ØKOKRIM and NSO, 2002
• "A Method for implementing Mobile Station Location in GSM", Masters Thesis, submitted for the degree M.Sc at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 1998.
• "Multilink PPP over GSM", with G. Foseid. Project assigment.

Project Publications

• "Lovtiltak mot datakriminalitet" ("New legislative measures against computer crime"), NOU 2007:2. Describes measures for Norway's fulfillment of the European Council Cybercrime Convention. Submitted by Datakrimutvalget to Norwegian Dept. of Justice. Served as appointed member 2005-2007.
• "IOCE Guidelines for Best Practice in the Forensic Examination of Digital Technology", International Organization on Computer Evidence. Drafted in Orlando, Florida, 2002. Served as appointed member for Norway.
• "Interpol Computer Crime Manual", continually updated document edited by Interpol European Working Party on Information Technology Crime. Served as appointed member for Norway 2001-2002.

Articles / Short Papers

• "Tidsstempel og elektroniske bevis" ("Time stamps and electronic evidence"), Lov og Data nr 98, 2009
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• "Storebrors våte drøm" ("Big Brother's wet dream"), Aftenposten, Oct 1st, 2008
• "Vår storebror i øst" ("Our beloved friends and neighbours"), Dagbladet, Sep 7th, 2008
• "Å lagre eller ikke å lagre" ("To retain or not to retain"), Lov & Data nr 94, 2008
• "Om speilkopiering av data i sivile tvister" ("On Forensic Imaging in Civil Disputes"), Lov & Data 2006:3
• "Slettede data som bevis" ("Deleted Data as Evidence"), Lov & Data 2004:2
• "Forensic Analysis of a Digital Copier", presented at Digital Evidence E-Symposium 2004
• "Sikring av elektroniske spor" ("Securing Electronic Evidence"), BEVIS 2002:4
• "Hacking som digital ransaking" ("Hacking for Digital Search and Seizure"), digi.no, Aug 26th, 2002