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UNHcFREG (UNH Cyber Forensics Research & Education Group / Lab)
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2016
Subject: LCSH
Cyber forensics, Computer forensics, Online social networks, Hackers
Disciplines
Computer Engineering | Computer Sciences | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Forensic Science and Technology | Information Security
Abstract
Online Social Networks (OSNs) have grown exponentially over the past decade. The initial use of social media for benign purposes (e.g., to socialize with friends, browse pictures and photographs, and communicate with family members overseas) has now transitioned to include malicious activities (e.g., cybercrime, cyberterrorism, and cyberwarfare). These nefarious uses of OSNs poses a signi_cant threat to society, and thus requires research attention. In this exploratory work, we study activities of one deviant groups: hacker groups on social media, which we term Deviant Hacker Networks (DHN). We investigated the connection between different DHNs on Twitter: how they are connected, identified the powerful nodes, which nodes sourced information, and which nodes act as “bridges” between different network components. From this, we were able to identify and articulate specific examples of DHNs communicating with each other, with the goal of committing some form of deviant act online. In our work, we also attempted to bridge the gap between the empirical study of OSNs and cyber forensics, as the growth of OSNs is now bringing these two domains together, due to OSNs continuously generating vast amounts of evidentiary data.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Repository Citation
al-Kateeb, Samer; Conlan, Kevin; Agarwal, Nitin; Baggili, Ibrahim; and Breitinger, Frank, "Exploring Deviant Hacker Networks (DHN) On Social Media Platforms" (2016). Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Publications. 59.
https://digitalcommons.newhaven.edu/electricalcomputerengineering-facpubs/59
Publisher Citation
Al-khateeb, Samer, Conlan, Kevin J., Agarwal, Nitin, Baggili, Ibrahim, and Breitinger, Frank. "Exploring Deviant Hacker Networks (DHN) On Social Media Platforms." Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law 11, no. 2 (2016): 7-20. http://jdfsl.org
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Comments
Copyright (c) 2016 Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law http://www.jdfsl.org/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Dr. Baggili was appointed to the University of New Haven's Elder Family Endowed Chair in 2015.