Introduction One of the uncanny sections of cyberspace is the dark web. When first learning about how the internet works, many do not go to the depths of the dark web. This is in large part due to ...
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Distinguishing and Understanding Insider Threats
Introduction Insider threats are among one of the most prominent and detrimental challenges that cybersecurity and digital forensic professionals face today. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure ...
Memory Forensics: Importance of Analyzing Volatile Data
Introduction When looking for malware in a breached computer, it can reside in many different places. Traditionally, malware would be stored and saved in a file somewhere in the hard disk of the ...
Anti-Forensics: An Overview of Evasion Tactics
Introduction In the world of cybercrime, a decent hacker can find their way into a security system and exploit it. However, a good hacker is not only focused on breaching security systems but also ...
Challenges of Investigations in the Cloud
Introduction Cloud computing is a technology that provides computing services (applications, databases, networking, servers, etc.) in exchange for payment [7]. As cloud computing continues to ...
Digital Forensics Techniques to Detect Deepfakes
Introduction With the advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI), digital manipulation tool sets have advanced into unprecedented levels. One of the most apparent are deepfakes, they have emerged ...
Reverse Engineering to Identify PhaaS Providers
Introduction In the 1990s, a group of hackers posed as employees of AOL. They used instant messaging and email to obtain users passwords and hijack their accounts. This is widely considered the ...
Importance of Digital Forensics Process Models: Some Examples
Introduction The field of digital forensics faces many challenges, and one of the most important is the field’s need for models with regards to the procedures of investigations and ...
Smart/IoT Devices as Evidence Sources
Introduction The increasingly pervasive presence of smart and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices across multiple environments such as home, office, and public places means that they are in a ...
Applications and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence for Digital Forensics
Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a rapidly growing technology with many potential applications in many different fields, and digital forensics is one of those fields. Here, AI has the ...