A Comprehensive Survey on Artifact Recovery from Social Media Platforms: Approaches and Future Research Directions
Social media applications have been ubiquitous in modern society, and their usage has grown exponentially over the years. With the widespread adoption of these platforms, social media has evolved into a significant origin of digital evidence in the domain of digital forensics. The increasing utiliza...
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| description | Social media applications have been ubiquitous in modern society, and their usage has grown exponentially over the years. With the widespread adoption of these platforms, social media has evolved into a significant origin of digital evidence in the domain of digital forensics. The increasing utilization of social media has caused an increase in the number of studies focusing on artifact (digital remnants of data) recovery from these platforms. As a result, we aim to present a comprehensive survey of the existing literature from the past 15 years on artifact recovery from social media applications in digital forensics. We analyze various approaches and techniques employed for artifact recovery, structuring our review on well-defined analysis focus categories, which are memory, disk, and network. By scrutinizing the available literature, we determine the trends and commonalities in existing research and further identify gaps in existing literature and areas of opportunity for future research in this field. The survey is expected to provide a valuable resource for academicians, digital forensics professionals, and researchers by enhancing their comprehension of the current state of the art in artifact recovery from social media applications. Additionally, it highlights the need for continued research to keep up with social media’s constantly evolving nature and its consequent impact on digital forensics. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a9e27c7f929940729f0e7bf643c6268e2023-12-22T14:15:49ZengMDPI AGInformation2078-24892023-11-01141262910.3390/info14120629A Comprehensive Survey on Artifact Recovery from Social Media Platforms: Approaches and Future Research DirectionsKhushi Gupta0Damilola Oladimeji1Cihan Varol2Amar Rasheed3Narasimha Shahshidhar4Department of Computer Science, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX 77340, USADepartment of Computer Science, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX 77340, USADepartment of Computer Science, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX 77340, USADepartment of Computer Science, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX 77340, USADepartment of Computer Science, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX 77340, USASocial media applications have been ubiquitous in modern society, and their usage has grown exponentially over the years. With the widespread adoption of these platforms, social media has evolved into a significant origin of digital evidence in the domain of digital forensics. The increasing utilization of social media has caused an increase in the number of studies focusing on artifact (digital remnants of data) recovery from these platforms. As a result, we aim to present a comprehensive survey of the existing literature from the past 15 years on artifact recovery from social media applications in digital forensics. We analyze various approaches and techniques employed for artifact recovery, structuring our review on well-defined analysis focus categories, which are memory, disk, and network. By scrutinizing the available literature, we determine the trends and commonalities in existing research and further identify gaps in existing literature and areas of opportunity for future research in this field. The survey is expected to provide a valuable resource for academicians, digital forensics professionals, and researchers by enhancing their comprehension of the current state of the art in artifact recovery from social media applications. Additionally, it highlights the need for continued research to keep up with social media’s constantly evolving nature and its consequent impact on digital forensics.https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/14/12/629artifact analysisdigital forensicsdisk forensicsmemory forensicsnetwork forensicssocial media forensics |
| spellingShingle | Khushi Gupta Damilola Oladimeji Cihan Varol Amar Rasheed Narasimha Shahshidhar A Comprehensive Survey on Artifact Recovery from Social Media Platforms: Approaches and Future Research Directions Information artifact analysis digital forensics disk forensics memory forensics network forensics social media forensics |
| title | A Comprehensive Survey on Artifact Recovery from Social Media Platforms: Approaches and Future Research Directions |
| title_full | A Comprehensive Survey on Artifact Recovery from Social Media Platforms: Approaches and Future Research Directions |
| title_fullStr | A Comprehensive Survey on Artifact Recovery from Social Media Platforms: Approaches and Future Research Directions |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Comprehensive Survey on Artifact Recovery from Social Media Platforms: Approaches and Future Research Directions |
| title_short | A Comprehensive Survey on Artifact Recovery from Social Media Platforms: Approaches and Future Research Directions |
| title_sort | comprehensive survey on artifact recovery from social media platforms approaches and future research directions |
| topic | artifact analysis digital forensics disk forensics memory forensics network forensics social media forensics |
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