Chapter 5

Network Traffic Forensics on Firefox Mobile OS

Facebook, Twitter, and Telegram as Case Studies

M.N. Yusoff*; A. Dehghantanha; R. Mahmod    * University Science Malaysia, George Town, Malaysia University of Salford, Salford, United Kingdom Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia

Abstract

The development of a mobile web-centric OS such as Firefox OS (FxOS) has created new challenges and opportunities for digital investigators. Network traffic forensics plays an important role in cybercrime investigation to detect subject(s) and object(s) of the crime. In this chapter we detect and analyze residual network traffic artifacts of FxOS in relation to two popular social networking applications (Facebook and Twitter) and one instant ...

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