doi: 10.18178/ijfcc.2023.12.1.598
CMATA: Cyber Trafficking Monitoring and Tracking Prototype
Risty Acerado
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- Technological Institute of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines
Abstract
With the evolution of the Internet, trafficking hasbroader and borderless operations targeting virtual spaceswhere individuals of different ages can be subjected to cybertrafficking. Despite the government's efforts to combat cybertrafficking, the growing number of cases is alarming. Oneapparent reason is that traffickers keep advancing theirtechnical strategies, so it becomes more challenging for lawenforcement to investigate complex and transnationalorganized crime. Thus, this paper presents the development of acyber monitoring and trafficking web application integratedwith a web scraper that identifies websites with a highprobability of being used in cyber trafficking activities. The webscraper was written using Beautiful Soup. With the result of thesensitivity analysis conducted in the study, beautiful soup wasdetermined to be the most suitable tool for developing webscraping algorithms based on performance, portability, andaccuracy compared with the Scrapy and Selenium tools. Uponthe initial testing of the developed prototyped in tracking andmonitoring suspected cyber traffickers, it was able to scrape 45potential trafficking websites. The initial testing result showsthat this kind of application integrated with a scraper toidentify cyber traffickers with a visualization dashboard canhelp law enforcement officers identify, track, and monitoronline traffickers easily and quickly.
Keywords
- Beautiful soup
- selenium
- scrapy
- cybertrafficking
- cyber trafficking monitoring application
- scrapingtools
- selenium
- web scraping
How to Cite
Risty Acerado, Mauee Czelsie Samaniego, and Roselia Morco, "CMATA: Cyber Trafficking Monitoring and Tracking Prototype," International Journal of Future Computer and Communication, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 19-22, 2023. https://doi.org/ 10.18178/ijfcc.2023.12.1.598
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Copyright © 2023 by the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).