The student researcher Yaman Munthir Salim, Dr. Majdi Owda, and Dr. Amani Owda from the Natural, Engineering and Technological Sciences Department in the Faculty of Postgraduate Studies at the Arab American University published a research paper in the “International Journal of Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics”. The research paper is entitled
“An Experimental Approach for Locating WhatsApp Digital Forensics Artefacts on Windows 10 and the Cloud”.
The study aimed to conduct digital forensic analysis in the WhatsApp application, which is widely used by users legally sometimes and illegally at other times fields. It may also be used as a means of committing electronic crimes such as electronic espionage or data leakage and privacy penetration.
The research provides a guide for the digital investigator on how to deal with extracting important evidence from the WhatsApp application, which is valuable to help find suspects in cybercrimes.
The student Yaman has previously defended her MA Thesis in Cybercrime and Digital Forensic Analysis. The thesis is entitled:
“Towards Digital Forensics 4.0: A Framework for Multi-Tier Digital Forensics of IoT Devices”.
Dr. Mohammad Hamarsheh from the Arab American University and Dr. Osama Mansour from Lund University, Sweden, participated in the arbitration.
