A WEB-BASED INTRUSION DETECTION SYSTEM FOR SOCIAL MEDIA FORUMS WITH INTRUDER IDENTIFICATION AND ACTIVITY LOGGING

Abstract

Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) is described as the ability of a system to recognizing malicious activities against computing resources and in turn protect against threats. The internet today is a great means of communication between users which ranges from social media to e-mails but hackers intruding to various users account have cause a lot of problems which ranges from inability of social media users to know those that attempt to login to their account, in ability of internet users to know the time, date of the particular user that tries to access or intrude to their account and also in ability to track and detect intruders details. These therefore led to the development of web based intrusion detection and notification system for social network which will capture the date, time of the intruder or attacker and also block the intruders from gaining access to the system, easy retrieval of records of logs for quick decision making it also has detection and finally a central database for managing all records of attackers within a particular time. The methodology adopted to carry out this project work is Object Oriented Analysis and Design Methodology, this methodology is adopted because it is easy to understand and maintain, it provides re-usability, it reduces the development time and cost, and it improves the quality of the system due to program reuse.. This project work was developed using hypertext pre-processor (PHP5), JQUERY, and HTML5 scripting language and also cascading style sheet (CSS3) for the interface design, APACHE was used as the web server and MYSQLi for the database. After implementation this project the result showed that the research work was able to capture the intrusion attempt date and time and as well blocked the intruder from gaining access to the system.