/Industrial Internet of Things Security – Assuring Trust Before Accepting Information 8
Brian Cusack takes a look at is the security of information and data in the IIoT.

/Romance Fraud & The Elderly – Is it a double whammy? 17
Pat Keane looks at how romance scams are a problem that have plagued the older adults for some time but can get overlooked.

/Faster Payments Fraud – Cyber Scamming Grows 39% in 2021 32
John Bertrand investigates how The UK’s Authorised Push Payment Fraud (APP Fraud) is now the leading fraud category for banks.

/TikTok Cybersecurity and US-China Tensions – Part 3 44
Larabella Myers completes her series on how Concerns Over Data Privacy and Censorship Are Contributing to Revolutionising the Internet World Order.

/Apparel Industry Fraud Update – Ecommerce Sales Boom While Fraud Rings Adapt 59
In this article we continue the Fraud theme with this update on Fraud within the Apparel Industry.

/LEGAL
/New Research: Raising the Bar for Digital Evidence Collection 28
Our Legal Editor Scott Zimmerman looks at DeepPatrol, a recent research innovation that looks to automate the identification of children in evidence files.

Issue 49 addresses evolving information-security and forensic challenges, including updates to ISO/IEC 27002, investigative dependencies on accurate network time, and geopolitical tensions reflected in TikTok-related data-privacy concerns. Additional features examine metaverse implications, log-analysis techniques for incident investigations, foundational cryptographic principles, and cross-border data-protection issues, highlighting operational, regulatory and evidential considerations central to contemporary digital-forensics practice.