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Social network services (SNSs) contain various information such as conversations between users, user location information, personal network, and user psychology. This information can be useful for incident investigation. However, in SNSs, unlike computing services that offer services by saving data on a device, a device that uses a SNS with real-time synchronization generally only saves information that is not effective evidence, such as SNS usage log records. However, if digital evidence can be collected through an appropriate digital forensic process, various information such as a social network user’s friend list, conversations, and personal relationships can be collected as digital evidence. Therefore, this paper suggests a digital forensic process for digital devices using SNSs. To analyze digital evidence about SNSs, this proposed method is composed of effective processes, classifying digital devices, collecting digital evidence, and analysis.
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This research was funded by the MSIP (Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning), Korea in the ICT R & D Program 2014.
This paper is extended and improved from accepted paper of KCIC-2013/FCC-2014.
This work was supported by the Soonchunhyang University Research Fund.
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Jang, YJ., Kwak, J. Digital forensics investigation methodology applicable for social network services. Multimed Tools Appl 74, 5029–5040 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-014-2061-8
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