ICOM6027A - E-crimes: digital crime scenes and legal sanctions

Summer Semester, 2022-23

Professors
Michael Kwan
Kevin Pun
Teaching assistant [TBA]
Syllabus This course helps participants to grapple with crimes in the electronic age from both technical and legal points of view.  It addresses three important aspects of the subject, namely, technologies adopted in e-crimes, legal sanctions and management of e-crimes scenes.  Topics covered include: trends in e-crimes; different types of e-crimes, tools and technologies for committing e-crimes; laws relating to e-crimes and criminal sanctions; digital forensics, post-incident and live-forensic crime scene management, chain of evidence, collecting and collating digital evidence.

Mutually exclusive with: COMP3311/CSIS0311 Legal aspects of computing
Learning Outcomes
Course Learning Outcomes Relevant Programme Learning Outcome
CLO1. Able to identify and explain the common crimes committed using or involving the computing technology. PLO. 13
CLO2. Able to apply the relevant provisions of the laws of Hong Kong to analyse the crimes referred to in 1 above. PLO. 13
CLO3. Demonstrate how to handle and preserve the integrity of digital evidence at the crime scene. PLO. 13
CLO4. Demonstrate ethics and professionalism in handling digital evidence. PLO. 13
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Compatibility
  • Students may not obtain credits for this course if you have already done so for COMP3311/CSIS0311 Legal Aspects of Computing.
  • Students who have obtained credits for COMP7901 (on or before 2019-20 academic year) are not allowed to take ICOM6027.
Topics covered
Course Content No. of Hours Course Learning Outcomes
1. Basics of criminal law 3.0 CLO1, CLO2
2. E-crimes in Hong Kong 9.0 CLO1, CLO2
3. Criminal jurisdiction 3.0 CLO1, CLO2
4. Scientific crime scene investigation 3.0 CLO3
5. From crime scene to forensic examination 3.0 CLO3
6. Digital crime scene investigation 3.0 CLO3
7. Techniques for search of digital data at scene 3.0 CLO3
8. Analysis and reconstruction of digital evidence 3.0 CLO4
 
Assessment
Description Type Weighting * Tentative Assessment Period /
Examination Period ^		 Course Learning Outcomes
Assignments Continuous Assessment 30% - CLO1, CLO2, CLO3, CLO4
Written examination covering all the taught contents in the course. Written Examination 70% 7 - 19 Aug 2023 CLO1, CLO2, CLO3, CLO4
* The weighting of coursework and examination marks is subject to approval
^ The exact examination date uses to be released when all enrolments are confirmed after add/drop period by the Examinations Office.  Students are obliged to follow the examination schedule.  Students should NOT enrol in the course if they are not certain that they will be in Hong Kong during the examination period.  Absent from examination may result in failure in the course. There is no supplementary examination for all MSc curriculums in the Faculty of Engineering.
Course materials

TBA
Session dates
Date Time Venue Remark
Session 1 29 May 2023 (Mon) 7:00pm - 10:00pm Online Zoom
Session 2 1 Jun 2023 (Thu) 7:00pm - 10:00pm Online Zoom
Session 3 5 Jun 2023 (Mon) 7:00pm - 10:00pm Online Zoom
Session 4 8 Jun 2023 (Thu) 7:00pm - 10:00pm Online Zoom
Session 5 12 Jun 2023 (Mon) 7:00pm - 10:00pm Online Zoom
Make-up session 15 Jun 2023 (Thu) 7:00pm - 10:00pm Online Zoom
Session 6 19 Jun 2023 (Mon) 7:00pm - 10:00pm GH-P603 Cancelled
Session 6 26 Jun 2023 (Mon) 7:00pm - 10:00pm GH-P603 Face-to-face
Session 7 3 Jul 2023 (Mon) 7:00pm - 10:00pm GH-P603 Face-to-face
Session 8 10 Jul 2023 (Mon) 7:00pm - 10:00pm GH-P603 Face-to-face
Session 9 (cancelled) 17 Jul 2023 (Mon) 7:00pm - 10:00pm GH-P603 Cancelled
Session 9 24 Jul 2023 (Mon) 7:00pm - 10:00pm GH-P603 Face-to-face
Session 10 31 Jul 2023 (Mon) 7:00pm - 10:00pm GH-P603 Face-to-face
GH - Graduate House
Add/drop 27 May, 2023 - 1 June, 2023
Maximum class size 80
Moodle course website
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