The First International Conference on Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime (ICDF2C) was held in Albany from September 30 to October 2, 2009. The field of digital forensics is growing rapidly with implications for several fields including law enforcement, network security, disaster recovery and accounting. This is a multidisciplinary area that requires expertise in several areas including, law, computer science, finance, networking, data mining, and criminal justice. This conference brought together practitioners and researchers from diverse fields providing opportunities for business and intellectual engagement among attendees. All the conference sessions were very well attended with vigorous discussions and strong audience interest. The conference featured an excellent program comprising high-quality paper presentations and invited speakers from all around the world. The first day featured a plenary session including George Philip, President of University at Albany, Harry Corbit, Suprintendent of New York State Police, and William Pelgrin, Director of New York State Office of Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure Coordination. An outstanding keynote was provided by Miklos Vasarhelyi on continuous auditing. This was followed by two parallel sessions on accounting fraud /financial crime, and multimedia and handheld forensics. The second day of the conference featured a mesmerizing keynote talk by Nitesh Dhanjani from Ernst and Young that focused on psychological profiling based on open source intelligence from social network analysis. The third day of the conference featured both basic and advanced tutorials on open source forensics. The conference was organized by the School of Business at the University at Albany, State University of New York in partnership with the New York State Police and collaboration the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (ICST) and Create-Net. The conference was also sponsored by the New York State Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS).