An Aid to Forensic by prerserving Skype evidences to present it in front of court of law

Cloud Forensic and Cloud Security

In the era of 21 st century there has been a huge revolution in the world’s history especially in the digital world. As per the perspective of Information Technology Act 2000/2008, to safeguard the legal admissibility of the digital records, it is mandatory to capture and preserve the digital evidences of digital data and electronic records. Almost every data nowadays is started being stored electronically. At present cell phones are dominating all over the world. Communications through Internet has been increased to a great extent which in return has raised the popularity of VoIP. Skype is a very common example of technology using VoIP service. Skype uses peer-to- peer and Client-Server system. Digital Forensics and data preservation in case of Skype is a challenging task. This Paper includes the glimpse about the Skype, its related work, study of existing mechanism. Through this paper we will propose a forensic tool for Skype that will help investigator to collect the strong data evidence.

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