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A REVIEW OF INTERNET FORENSICS RESEARCH

Profile image of Merly ThomasMerly Thomas

2023, IJCSPUB

Abstract

Internet Forensics is a process of preservation, identification, extraction, and documentation of internet activities for investigation purposes. It is a science of determining evidence from internet platforms like emails, Webpages, and social media (SM). Moreover, it helps the forensic team with the best possible approaches and tools to solve complicated internet cases with the tracking of browser history, scripting, and heading information used by the web servers and the sources, substance, patterns, and transmission routes of emails and Web pages. Most widely generated from the Social Media platform followed by Webpages and emails and hence it is necessary to make research such information. The widespread use of Cloud Computing and Social Networking requests has resulted in a thorough investigation of Online Social Forensic investigation. The main concern is security and observing the pointed development in social network operators. This study investigated various kinds of internet forensics such as Email forensics, social media forensic, Network forensic, and Web forensic analysis which the review papers are analyzed using these four forensic analyses. A total of 25 papers were selected for this survey in which the advantages, disadvantages, and experimental studies are discussed.

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