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TOWARDS FULLY AUTOMATED DIGITAL ALIBIS WITH SOCIAL INTERACTION
Digital traces found on local hard drives as a result of online activities have become very valuable in reconstructing events in digital forensic investigations. This paper demonstrates that forged alibis can be created for online activities and social interactions. In particular, a novel, automated framework is presented that uses social interactions to create false digital alibis. The framework simulates user activity and supports communications via email as well as instant messaging using a chatbot. The framework is evaluated by extracting forensic artifacts and comparing them with the results obtained from a human user study
On the evolution of digital evidence: novel approaches for cyber investigation
2012-2013Nowadays Internet is the fulcrum of our world, and the World Wide Web is the key to
access it. We develop relationships on social networks and entrust sensitive documents to
online services. Desktop applications are being replaced by fully-fledged web-applications
that can be accessed from any devices. This is possible thanks to new web technologies that
are being introduced at a very fast pace. However, these advances come at a price. Today,
the web is the principal means used by cyber-criminals to perform attacks against people
and organizations. In a context where information is extremely dynamic and volatile, the
fight against cyber-crime is becoming more and more difficult.
This work is divided in two main parts, both aimed at fueling research against cybercrimes.
The first part is more focused on a forensic perspective and exposes serious limitations
of current investigation approaches when dealing with modern digital information.
In particular, it shows how it is possible to leverage common Internet services in order to
forge digital evidence, which can be exploited by a cyber-criminal to claim an alibi. Hereinafter,
a novel technique to track cyber-criminal activities on the Internet is proposed,
aimed at the acquisition and analysis of information from highly dynamic services such as
online social networks.
The second part is more concerned about the investigation of criminal activities on
the web. Aiming at raising awareness for upcoming threats, novel techniques for the
obfuscation of web-based attacks are presented. These attacks leverage the same cuttingedge
technology used nowadays to build pleasant and fully-featured web applications.
Finally, a comprehensive study of today’s top menaces on the web, namely exploit kits, is
presented. The result of this study has been the design of new techniques and tools that
can be employed by modern honeyclients to better identify and analyze these menaces in
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Assessing Security Risks with the Internet of Things
For my honors thesis I have decided to study the security risks associated with the Internet of Things (IoT) and possible ways to secure them. I will focus on how corporate, and individuals use IoT devices and the security risks that come with their implementation. In my research, I found out that IoT gadgets tend to go unnoticed as a checkpoint for vulnerability. For example, often personal IoT devices tend to have the default username and password issued from the factory that a hacker could easily find through Google. IoT devices need security just as much as computers or servers to keep the security, confidentiality, and availability of data in the right hands
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