Mainstream social platforms boast billions of users worldwide. In recent years, popular
social platforms have seen a decline in their users that are choosing to migrate to alternative …

The rapid growth in usage and application of Social Networking (SN) platforms make them a
potential target by cyber criminals to conduct malicious activities such as identity theft …

In pervasive social networking forensics, mobile devices (eg mobile phones) are a typical
source of evidence. For example, figures from an Australian law enforcement agency show …

Mobile devices are increasingly utilized to access social media and instant messaging
services, which allow users to communicate with others easily and quickly. However, the …

Smartphone users spend a substantial amount of time in browsing, emailing, and
messaging through different social networking apps. The use of social networking apps on …

The increased use of social networking applications on smartphones makes these devices a
goldmine for forensic investigators. Potential evidence can be held on these devices and …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the private-data pertaining to the
interaction of users with social media applications that can be recovered from second-hand …

Instant messaging applications (apps) have played a vital role in online interaction,
especially under COVID-19 lockdown protocols. Apps with security provisions are able to …

In this research we forensically acquire and analyze the device-stored data and network
traffic of 20 popular instant messaging applications for Android. We were able to reconstruct …

The trend in social networking is changing people's life style. Since both the smart phone
and computers are connected to the same tools, the newly developed applications must …