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2023-09-01
Küçük, Düzgün, Yakut, Ömer Faruk, Cevız, Barış, Çakar, Emre, Ertam, Fatih.  2022.  Data Manipulation and Digital Forensics Analysis on WhatsApp Application. 2022 15th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptography (ISCTURKEY). :19—24.
WhatsApp is one of the rare applications that has managed to become one of the most popular instant messaging applications all over the world. While inherently designed for simple and fast communication, privacy features such as end-to-end encryption have made confidential communication easy for criminals aiming to commit illegal acts. However, as it meets many daily communication and communication needs, it has a great potential to be digital evidence in interpersonal disputes. In this study, in parallel with the potential of WhatsApp application to contain digital evidence, the abuse of this situation and the manipulation method of multimedia files, which may cause wrong decisions by the judicial authorities, are discussed. The dangerous side of this method, which makes the analysis difficult, is that it can be applied by anyone without the need for high-level root authority or any other application on these devices. In addition, it is difficult to detect as no changes can be made in the database during the analysis phase. In this study, a controlled experimental environment was prepared on the example scenario, the manipulation was carried out and the prepared system analysis was included. The results obtained showed that the evidence at the forensic analysis stage is open to misinterpretation.
2022-06-06
Tiwari, Asheesh, Mehrotra, Vibhu, Goel, Shubh, Naman, Kumar, Maurya, Shashank, Agarwal, Ritik.  2021.  Developing Trends and Challenges of Digital Forensics. 2021 5th International Conference on Information Systems and Computer Networks (ISCON). :1–5.
Digital forensics is concerned with identifying, reporting and responding to security breaches. It is about how to acquire, analyze and report digital evidence and using the technical skills, discovering the traces of Cyber Crime. The field of digital forensics is in high demand due to the constant threats of data breaches and information hacks. Digital Forensics is utilized in the identification and elimination of crimes in any controversy where evidence is preserved in online space. This is the use of specialized techniques for retrieval, authentication and electronic data analysis. Computer forensics deals with the identification, preservation, analysis, documentation and presentation of digital evidence. The paper has analyzed the present-day trends that includes IoT forensics, cloud forensics, network forensics and social media forensics. Recent researches have shown a wide range of threats and cyber-attacks, which requires forensic investigators and forensics scientists to simplify the digital world. Hence, all our research gives a clear view of digital forensics which could be of a great help in forensic investigation. In this research paper we have discussed about the need and way to preserve the digital evidence, so that it is not compromised at any point in time and an unalter evidence can be presented before the court of law.
2018-03-19
Rocha, A., Scheirer, W. J., Forstall, C. W., Cavalcante, T., Theophilo, A., Shen, B., Carvalho, A. R. B., Stamatatos, E..  2017.  Authorship Attribution for Social Media Forensics. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 12:5–33.

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 might be when the message may never exceed 140 characters on a service like Twitter? For the past 50 years, linguists, computer scientists, and scholars of the humanities have been jointly developing automated methods to identify authors based on the style of their writing. All authors possess peculiarities of habit that influence the form and content of their written works. These characteristics can often be quantified and measured using machine learning algorithms. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive review of the methods of authorship attribution that can be applied to the problem of social media forensics. Furthermore, we examine emerging supervised learning-based methods that are effective for small sample sizes, and provide step-by-step explanations for several scalable approaches as instructional case studies for newcomers to the field. We argue that there is a significant need in forensics for new authorship attribution algorithms that can exploit context, can process multi-modal data, and are tolerant to incomplete knowledge of the space of all possible authors at training time.