Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime Datamining

K. K. Sindhu, B. B. Meshram

Computer Engineering Department, Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute, Mumbai, India.
omputer Engineering Department, Shah and Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College, Mumbai, India.

DOI: 10.4236/jis.2012.33024                

Abstract

Digital forensics is the science of identifying, extracting, analyzing and presenting the digital evidence that has been stored in the digital devices. Various digital tools and techniques are being used to achieve this. Our paper explains forensic analysis steps in the storage media, hidden data analysis in the file system, network forensic methods and cyber crime data mining. This paper proposes a new tool which is the combination of digital forensic investigation and crime data mining. The proposed system is designed for finding motive, pattern of cyber attacks and counts of attacks types happened during a period. Hence the proposed tool enables the system administrators to minimize the system vulnerability.

Keywords

Cyber Forensic; Digital Forensic Tool; Network Forensic Tool; Crime Data Mining

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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