Evidence Acquisition in Social Media for Cyber Crime

Abstract

Social Media forensics a branch of forensics involves in collecting the evidences for the cyber crime. Investigating social media is a complex process which involves the privacy issues for accessing the users, suspects and victims information on social media. Manual processing of social media data is not feasible as it contains large volumes of data. An automated process is needed to incident specification, evidence extraction and for provenance. The need for handling heterogeneity of data as users have accounts with multiple social websites is also explained. This study briefs the existing models and the challenges faced in analyzing with those models. The research goals in this field are also addressed. A pool of tools which can contribute in guarding the solution for cyber crime is also presented.