The veil of anonymity provided by smartphones with pre-paid SIM cards, public Wi-Fi hotspots, and distributed networks like Tor has drastically complicated the task of identifying users of social media during forensic investigations. In some cases, the text of a single posted message will be the only clue to an author’s identity. How can we accurately predict who that author …

With the rapid growth of cloud adoption in both private and public sectors globally, cloud computing environment has become one of the prospective battle field for cyber attackers where one of the major challenges of cloud computing is the protection of data from various attacks. Mostly, Cloud services are provided by the service providers where data security is a major …

Flooding attack is one of the serious threats of network security on Web servers that resulted in the loss of bandwidth and overload for the user and the service provider web server. The first step to recognizing the network flooding attack is by applying the detection system Intrusion Detection System (IDS) like Snort. Snort is an open source system that …

A closer look from a digital forensics point of view may help examiners to find and understand vulnerabilities in cryptographic tools to determine which ones are the safest and provide the best features. In this paper, the authors analyze different ways of using cryptography to protect data on hard drives, discuss some vulnerabilities and present particular features of disk encryption tools. …

In forensic computing, especially in the field of postmortem file system forensics, the reconstruction of lost or deleted files plays a major role. The techniques that can be applied to this end strongly depend on the specifics of the file system in question. Various file systems are already well-investigated, such as FAT16/32, NTFS for Microsoft Windows systems and Ext2/3 as …

In the forensic field of digital technology, there has been a great deal of investigation into the decoding of navigation systems of the brand TomTom. As TomTom is the market leader in navigation systems, a large number of these devices are investigated. These devices can hold an abundance of significant location information. Currently, it is possible with the use of …

There are many occasions in which the security community is interested to discover the authorship of malware binaries, either for digital forensics analysis of malware corpora or for thwarting live threats of malware invasion. Such a discovery of authorship might be possible due to stylistic features inherent to software codes written by human programmers. Existing studies of authorship attribution of …

Secure messaging applications have been used for the purposes of major crime, creating the need for forensic research into the area. This paper forensically analyses two secure messaging applications, Wickr and Telegram, to recover artefacts from and then to compare them to reveal the differences between the applications. The artefacts were created on Android platforms by using the secure features …

Mobile forensics is a branch of cyber forensics which helps in extracting evidence from mobile devices. A variety of software tools are available from different vendors for performing the acquisition and analysis of handheld devices ranging from basic phones to smart phones. From an investigator’s point of view, information like call log, sms, mms, contacts, multimedia and other user related …

The Smart TV is becoming increasingly popular amongst consumers. Many consumers use a Smart TV to gain quick access to the Internet including video on demand, social networking and instant messaging. Most Smart TVs also provide capabilities to connect with external devices such as a USB flash drive, a mobile phone etc. All of these features make a Smart TV …