Abstract
For several years now, bank customers have become accustomed to the convenient use of Automated Teller Machines (ATM) to transfer money between accounts either within the same bank or to different banks. The ATM provides account balance information, enable customers to deposit and withdraw cash from their accounts and perform other transactions without physically meeting bank staff in banking hall for transactions. The use of ATMs for mobile banking has led to a significant increase in ATM fraud globally. Consumer confidence in the use of ATMs for banks transactions and credit card issuers has been impacted by fraudulent activities associated with ATMs.
Description
Automated Teller Machine (ATM) is electronic equipment which allows bank customers to perform some transactions either within or outside banking premises. Such transactions include: withdrawals, deposits, checking account balances, transferring of money within the same or different banks, paying utilities bills, to mention but a few. ATM facilitates a convenient method for customers to execute banking transactions and invariably provides avenues for committing cybercrime in cyberspace. Cyber forensics is a branch of computer science that deals with how to obtain, preserve, analyze, document and present digital data from cyber space. A cyber forensics investigator or cyber forensics analyst and is a professional or expert who obtain digital data from cyberspace, perform analysis and documents evidential data, which can be admissible in the law courts. When cybercrime is committed in ATM transactions, forensic experts are required to investigate and extract digital data from the cyberspace where the crime was committed with the aid of forensic tools. Using the ATM digital data traffic collected, the forensic expert conducts a forensic analysis of the ATM digital data traffic, preserves the integrity of the data, prepares a report which can be admissible in the court of law. Assets stolen can be recovered through Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) or through adjudication of law courts.
1.1 Problem Statement
Financial institutions and individual’s lose substantial amount of money from ATM fraud.
1.2 Significance of the problem
The study will enable the network cyber forensics investigator to extract digital evidence from the generated data packets from ATM networks. The investigator will be able to perform analysis on the data in a forensic laboratory and prepare a report that can be presented in the court of law to enable recovery of stolen assets.
1.3 Objectives
The objectives of the study include:
1. To capture data traffic generated from ATM networks
2. To provide digital evidence in court of law in case cybercrime is committed
3. To recover stolen money for individual or financial institutions
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