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Drone forensics: Examination and analysis
International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics
  • Farkhund Iqbal, Zayed University
  • Benjamin Yankson, Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
  • Maryam A. AlYammahi, Zayed University
  • Naeema AlMansoori, Zayed University
  • Suaad Mohammed Qayed, Zayed University
  • Babar Shah, Zayed University
  • Thar Baker, Liverpool John Moores University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2019
Abstract

Copyright © 2019 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, provides unique functionalities, which allows area surveillance, inspection, surveying, unarmed cargo, armed attack machines, and aerial photography. Drones are susceptible to GPS spoofing attacks, integrity attacks and de-authentication attacks, which can allow criminals to access data, intercept the drone and use it commit a crime. Thus, this paper is presented to report on potential attacks against the Parrot Bebop 2 drone, and the ability for an investigator to collect evidence about the attacks on the drone. This paper aims at examining the possibility of establishing ownership and collecting data to reconstruct events, linking the drone controller with the drone to prove ownership, flight origins and other potentially useful information necessary to identify the proprietor of a crime. In addition, we have also proposed small-scale drone ontology for modelling drone context data, and simple forensic processing framework for small-scale drones.

Publisher
Inderscience Publishers
Disciplines
Keywords
  • Context data,
  • Digital forensics,
  • Drone attack,
  • Drone ontology,
  • Drone security,
  • Investigation
Scopus ID
85068339008
Indexed in Scopus
Yes
Open Access
Yes
Open Access Type
Green: A manuscript of this publication is openly available in a repository
http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/7952/1/authorsFinalVersion.pdf
Citation Information
Farkhund Iqbal, Benjamin Yankson, Maryam A. AlYammahi, Naeema AlMansoori, et al.. "Drone forensics: Examination and analysis" International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics Vol. 11 Iss. 3 (2019) p. 245 - 264 ISSN: <a href="https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/issn/1751-911X" target="_blank">1751-911X</a>
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/babar-shah/29/