Forensic Investigation of Cross Platform Massively Multiplayer Online Games: Minecraft as a Case Study

Paul J. Taylor; Henry Mwiki; Ali Dehghantanha; Alex Akinbi; Kim Kwang Raymond Choo; Mohammad Hammoudeh; Reza M. Parizi

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-10543-3_7

Forensic Investigation of Cross Platform Massively Multiplayer Online Games: Minecraft as a Case Study

Paul J. Taylor
, Henry Mwiki
, Ali Dehghantanha^*
, Alex Akinbi
, Kim Kwang Raymond Choo
, Mohammad Hammoudeh
, Reza M. Parizi

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Minecraft, a Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG), has reportedly millions of players from different age groups worldwide. With Minecraft being so popular, particularly with younger audiences, it is no surprise that the interactive nature of Minecraft has facilitated the commission of criminal activities such as denial of service attacks against gamers, cyberbullying, swatting, sexual communication, and online child grooming. In this research, we simulate the scenario of a typical Minecraft setting, using a Linux Ubuntu 16.04.3 machine, acting as the MMOG server, and client devices running Minecraft. Then, we forensically examine both server and client devices to reveal the type and extent of evidential artefacts that can be extracted.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Handbook of Big Data and IoT Security
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Pages	153-177
Number of pages	25
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030105433
ISBN (Print)	9783030105426
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10543-3_7
State	Published - 1 Jan 2019
Externally published	Yes

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Keywords

Forensic science
Game forensics
MMOG forensics
Massively multiplayer online games (MMOG)
Minecraft forensics
Online games forensics

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Computer Science

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