How to detect cryptocurrency miners? By traffic forensics!
Cryptocurrencies set a new trend for a financial interaction between people. In order to successfully meet this use-case, cryptocurrencies combine various advanced information technologies (e.g., blockchain as a replicated database, ...
Highlights
- Cryptocurrency mining can be detected in the network.
- Three mining protocols ...
Standardization of file recovery classification and authentication
Digital forensics can no longer tolerate software that cannot be relied upon to perform specific functions such as file recovery. Indistinct and non-standardized results increase the risk of misinterpretation by digital forensic ...
Data acquisition methods using backup data decryption of Sony smartphones
As the storage capacity of smartphones increases, more user data such as call logs, SMS records, media data, and instant messages are stored in smartphones. Therefore, it is important in digital investigation to acquire smartphones ...
Highlights
- Smartphone backup methods are different for each manufacturer.
- Sony smartphone ...
Identifying suspicious addresses in Bitcoin thefts
Bitcoin as a popular digital currency has been a target of theft and other illegal activities. Key to the forensic investigation is to identify bitcoin addresses involved in the bitcoin transfers. This paper presents a framework, FABT, ...
Highlights
- Use bitcoin transaction net as a formal model of bitcoin transactions.
- Exploit ...
Reconstructing cached video stream content: - Part 2
In 2018, Horsman (2018a; 2018b) provided guidance for the reconstruction of cached stream remnants following use of the Periscope, Facebook Live and YouTube platforms. These works confirmed that video stream content can be cached to a ...
Highlights
- A follow-up to Horsman, G., 2018. Reconstructing streamed video content: A case study on YouTube and Facebook Live.
An examination of gaming platform policies for law enforcement support
The problems faced with regulating social media platforms are well known and documented, where frequent abuses of these platforms occur. In addition to this issue, the use of gaming platforms and their inbuilt communication facilities ...
Highlights
- A follow-up to Horsman, G., 2017. A survey of current social network and online communication provision policies to support law enforcement identify ...
Worldwide analysis of crimes by the traces of their online media coverage: The case of jewellery store robberies
This empirical study aims to determine whether online media coverage can be used to gather intelligence on specific crimes worldwide. The quality of online news is evaluated as an indicator of the worldwide distribution of jewelry ...
Highlights
- Online news can be used to gather forensic intelligence about phenomena which are well covered by the media.