Rule Based Evidence Mining for Network Attack

Today the Internet technology has made it possible to form virtual communities in the cyber space thereby facilitating different types of electronic transactions. There is also a negative force to this technology, which is trying to threaten the security aspects. In order to guard against such threats one must adopt a well-planned approach and apply it systematically. In this paper, an in-depth study of major security threats are made and a decision tree has been built for evidence mining to help the law enforcement agencies and establish network crimes.