Forensics acquisition and analysis of instant messaging and VoIP applications

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8915, Issue , 2015, Pages 188-199

  Sgaras, Christos ^a   Kechadi, M Tahar ^b   Le Khac, Nhien An ^b  

^a Europol   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Forensic acquisition analysis and comparison; Skype; Tango; Viber; Voip; Whatsapp

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER FORENSICS; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; INTERNET TELEPHONY; IOS (OPERATING SYSTEM); MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; MESSAGE PASSING; SMARTPHONES; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; TELEPHONE SETS; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

FORENSIC ACQUISITION; SKYPE; TANGO; VIBER; VOIP; WHATSAPP;

ANDROID (OPERATING SYSTEM);

EID: 84947258502     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-20125-2_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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