Forensic analysis in social networking applications
Abstract In digital forensics, social media is promptly evolving as a frontier technology. The digital information may explore the magazine contents on social media to offer incredible sustenance in the process of criminal investigations. Conversely, discovering the potential evidence using social media is not presented as a proof in any court of law. The forensic process involves social media to collect the evidence of appropriate legal, scientific, and discretion rights of the individuals. The legal process challenges practitioners and investigators to deal with the vibrant and dissimilar nature of social media. The forensic investigators engage in the service of effective investigation to collect, conduct, and manage the legal social contents provided with sophisticated tools. This chapter conducts the current state of existence, namely, acquisition of legal evidence, case admissibility, jurisdiction, and services in social network forensics. It also provides a part of direct challenges to collect, analyze, present, and validate the evidences of social media in lawful actions. This work studies on the current state of the art approaches to highlight the open issues that deal with the mandatory challenges of social networks.