Social cyber forensics: leveraging open source information and social network analysis to advance cyber security informatics

Samer Al-khateeb; Nitin Agarwal

doi:10.1007/s10588-019-09296-3

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Social cyber forensics: leveraging open source information and social network analysis to advance cyber security informatics

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Social cyber forensics: leveraging open source information and social network analysis to advance cyber security informatics

Samer Al-khateeb and Nitin Agarwal

Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, Vol.26(4), pp.412-430

12/2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10588-019-09296-3

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In this paper, we introduce the concept of social cyber forensics and its usability. Then, we introduce a tool, i.e., Maltego that can be used to study the cross-media affiliation and uncover hidden relations among various online groups. We also provide three stepwise methodologies that leverage Maltego and various open source information to uncover the hidden relationship among (1) Twitter accounts and a set of websites/blogs; (2) websites/blogs and other websites/blogs; or (3) infer the ownership of a set of websites/blogs. These methodologies have been tested during many cyber propaganda campaigns that were projected against NATO forces. A high-level view of these case studies that leveraged the concepts and methodologies provided in this paper are briefly highlighted here while the details of each case were published in various venues which are pointed out for interested readers.

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Title: Social cyber forensics
Creators: Samer Al-khateeb (Author) - Department of Computer Science, Design & Journalism
Nitin Agarwal (Author) - University of Arkansas Little Rock
Additional links: Bisgin, Halil; Thomson, Robert; Hyder, Ayaz; Dancy, Christopher; Barnaghi, Payam; Gottlob, Georg; Katsaros, Dimitrios; Manolopoulos, Yannis; Pandey, Rahul; Tzouramanis, Theodoros; Vakali, Athena
Publication Details: Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, Vol.26(4), pp.412-430
Series: 26
Number of pages: 19
Grant note: This research is funded in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation (IIS-1636933, ACI-1429160, and IIS-1110868), U.S. Office of Naval Research (N00014-10-1-0091, N00014-14-1-0489, N00014-15-P-1187, N00014-16-1-2016, N00014-16-1-2412, N00014-17-1-2605, N00014-17-1-2675, N00014-19-1-2336), U.S. Air Force Research Lab, U.S. Army Research Office (W911NF-16-1-0189), U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (W31P4Q-17-C-0059), Arkansas Research Alliance, the Jerry L. Maulden/Entergy Fund at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and Creighton University’s College of Arts and Sciences. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding organizations. The researchers gratefully acknowledge the support. Funding Information: This research is funded in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation (IIS-1636933, ACI-1429160, and IIS-1110868), U.S. Office of Naval Research (N00014-10-1-0091, N00014-14-1-0489, N00014-15-P-1187, N00014-16-1-2016, N00014-16-1-2412, N00014-17-1-2605, N00014-17-1-2675,?N00014-19-1-2336), U.S. Air Force Research Lab, U.S. Army Research Office (W911NF-16-1-0189), U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (W31P4Q-17-C-0059), Arkansas Research Alliance, the Jerry L. Maulden/Entergy Fund at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and Creighton University?s College of Arts and Sciences. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding organizations. The researchers gratefully acknowledge the support.
Identifiers: 991005930656202656
Academic Unit: Computer Science, Design and Journalism
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

Social cyber forensics: leveraging open source information and social network analysis to advance cyber security informatics

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