Social network forensics: using commercial software in a university forensics lab environment
Pavel Halkin, Knut Kröger, Reiner Manfred Creutzburg · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2013
The aim of this article is to give a practical overview of forensic investigation of social networks cases using certain commercial software packages in a university forensics lab environment. Students have to learn the usefulness of forensic procedures to ensure evidence collection, evidence preservation, forensic analysis, and reporting. It is demonstrated how to investigate important data from social network users. Different scenarios of investigations are presented that are well-suited for forensics lab work in university. In particular, we focus on the new version of Belkasoft Evidence Center and compare it with other well-known tools regarding functionality, usability and capabilities.