2017/08/17 by Nikita Rana, Rana, Nikita, Gunjan Sansanwal +5
Computer Science · #Advanced Malware Detection Techniques #Computers and Society (cs.CY) #Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) #Digital Media Forensic Detection #Digital and Cyber Forensics #FOS: Computer and information sciences #cs.CR #cs.CY
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1709.06529
19 pages and 1 table
arxiv created 2017/08/17 · openalex publication_date 2017/08/17 · arxiv updated 2017/09/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In today's world of computers, any kind of information can be made available within few clicks for different endeavors. The information may be tampered by changing the statistical properties and can be further used for criminal activities. These days, Cyber crimes are happening at a very large scale, and possess big threats to the security of an individual, firm, industry and even to developed countries. To combat such crimes, law enforcement agencies and investment institutions are incorporating supportive examination policies, procedures and protocols to address the complete investigation process. The paper entails a detailed review of several cyber crimes followed by various digital forensics processes involved in the cyber crime investigation. Further various digital forensics tools with detail explanation are discussed with their advantages, disadvantages, challenges, and drawbacks. A comparison among all the selected tools is also presented. Finally the paper recommends the need of training programs for the first res ponder and judgement of signature based image authentication.