World Scientific Series In Digital Forensics And Cybersecurity – serie

The use of online social networks (OSNs) has grown exponentially in recent years, and these OSNs continue to have an ever-increasing impact on human lives. There are many concerns regarding the privacy of users in these environments, such as how trustworthy the social network operators (SNOs) are.This book presents a way to tackle the security and privacy issues in current OSNs through a new framework for online social networking, based on distributed cloud-based datacenters (CDCs) and using Shamir's secret sharing (SSS) as the method of encrypting user profile data. The framework aims to fulfill two contradictory goals: maintaining the utility of an OSN and preserving privacy of its users. The key feature of the framework lies in relinquishing control of a central authority over user's data (which is what usually happens in the current OSNs, e.g. Facebook keeps all our data) and distributing it to multiple CDCs in encrypted form. The use of SSS ensures perfect security, which means that the security of data does not rely on any unproven computational assumptions.In this unique book, SNOs are considered as an adversary instead of external adversary. This paves the way for researchers to think beyond the privacy setting mechanism within an OSN to protect users' data.

Digital forensics deals with the investigation of cybercrimes. With the growing deployment of cloud computing, mobile computing, and digital banking on the internet, the nature of digital forensics has evolved in recent years, and will continue to do so in the near future.This book presents state-of-the-art techniques to address imminent challenges in digital forensics. In particular, it focuses on cloud forensics, Internet-of-Things (IoT) forensics, and network forensics, elaborating on innovative techniques, including algorithms, implementation details and performance analysis, to demonstrate their practicality and efficacy. The innovations presented in this volume are designed to help various stakeholders with the state-of-the-art digital forensics techniques to understand the real world problems. Lastly, the book will answer the following questions: How do the innovations in digital forensics evolve with the emerging technologies? What are the newest challenges in the field of digital forensics?