Social Networking Forensics

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Social Networking Forensics

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Janet Cheng Jennifer Hoffman Therese
LaMarche Ahmet Tavil Amit Yadav Client Steve
Kim Professor Tappert
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Overview

• Background information about Social Network
  Forensics
• Forensic tools
• Top ten social networking sites and their privacy
  configurations
• Social Networking Tracker Website
• Find IP address in Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail
• Demonstrations on C Program and PHP website
• Future recommendations

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Background Information
Cases A 22-year-old Arizona woman was arrested
for plotting a murder on another woman after
seeing photos from her boyfriends MySpace
website.
Three suspects have been charged in connection
with a kidnap and attempted murder of a man,
after meeting with a woman through a social
networking website called mocospace.com.
A mother falsified her identity using MySpace to
hoax a 13-year-old neighbor who later committed
suicide.

• Numerous murders, kidnaps, robbers, and etc.
  involve social networking sites led to security
  issues
• Security has not been a high priority in the
  popular social networking sites

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Commonly Used Forensic Applications
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Social Networking Sites
Security Configurations
Evaluated on all different social networking
sites focusing on their privacy configurations


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Social Networking Sites
Security Configurations
Extended Tracker Program
Created a website called Social Networking
Visitor Tracker. Developed and tested modules
for major Social Networking Sites.
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Tracing senders IP address from an E-mail account
Gmail

• Access your inbox
• Click on the message
• Click on the upside down triangle located on the
  right
• Select Show Original

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Tracing senders IP address from an E-mail account
Hotmail

• Make sure you are in classic mode
• Right click on message
• Click on the message
• Select View Message Source

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Tracing senders IP address from an E-mail account
Yahoo! Mail

• Select the message
• Scroll down and click Full Headers

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Demo Demonstration C Application
Security Configurations
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Demo Demonstration PHP Website
Security Configurations
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Future Recommendations

• Retrieving more information about the visitor of
  a monitored Social Networking page
• Develop additional modules for the PHP tool to
  support Facebook, Second Life and other websites.
  
• Craigslist presents the need to be monitored due
  to the increasing cases in scams. Craigslist
  users could benefit from knowing more about the
  people contacting them.

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