Detection of spoofed mails
Aparna Jayan, S Dija · 2015
Cyber forensics deals with the collection of digital artifacts from digital devices that can be presented in the court as evidence. There are many areas of cyber forensics. Some of these are Disk Forensics, Network Forensics, Mobile Forensics, Database Forensics, etc. This paper mainly focuses on E-mail Forensics coming under network forensics. Emails are highly vulnerable to attacks. Email spoofing is the major one among many forms of email-based attacks. Detecting email spoofing is an important challenge in email forensic investigation. In this paper, different methods to detect spoofing by analyzing the mail header are discussed.