Data mining instant messaging communications to perform author identification for cybercrime investigations

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

Volumn 31 LNICST, Issue , 2010, Pages 99-110

  Orebaugh, Angela ^a   Allnutt, Jeremy ^a  

^a MS 1G5 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Authorship analysis; Cyber forensics; Cybercrime investigations; Forensic data mining

Indexed keywords

AUTHOR IDENTIFICATION; AUTHORSHIP ANALYSIS; AUTHORSHIP IDENTIFICATION; COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; CYBER CRIMINALS; CYBER FORENSICS; CYBER-CRIMES; CYBERCRIME; FEATURE SETS; FORENSIC DATA; INSTANT MESSAGING; TRUE IDENTITY;

CRIME; DATA MINING; ELECTRONIC CRIME COUNTERMEASURES; INVESTMENTS; MESSAGE PASSING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 84873639333     PISSN: 18678211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11534-9_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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