Forensics Tools for Social Network Security
Vishal Almeida, Andrew Karnbad, Palak Shah, Steve S. Kim · 2011
Social networking has exploded in terms of popularity for a variety of reasons that include personal connections, instant messaging, photo sharing, selling of merchandise, sharing of ideas and philosophical viewpoints. Where there is money to be made or the opportunity for one to take advantage of another there will always be a criminal element. How does one know that the friend they’ve just accepted an invitation from is really who they say they are? How does one know that the posting to their Facebook wall came from their friend or from someone who hacked into their friends account? Often times they do know but not always, and it is those times we strive to empower users to know the difference.