FORENSICS TAXONOMY OF ANDROID E-COMMERCE APPLICATIONS

Abstract

Android platform is emerging with impressive impact in the growing market of mobile devices. These devices are capable of holding an enormous amount of information. E-commerce is one of the major categories needs to be focused by forensic investigators. Shopping on your smartphones has never been easier whether you have to do weekly grocery or finding the latest clothes. This new technology has enabled us to buy whatever we want sitting in our homes. With the increase of business in e-commerce, there is an increase in threats. Computer hacker aims to access the sensitive information related to credit cards when it comes to merchants and service providers who usually process this information. While e-shopping business is growing rapidly still there are predominant concerns for the security of financial and personal information online. This focus of this research is identification and classification of data remnants left in the android mobile device using online shopping applications. The artifacts collected from applications will be presented in the form of taxonomy which will assist forensics investigators to have a better insight to these applications.