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Practical Mobile Forensics

You're reading from Practical Mobile Forensics A hands-on guide to mastering mobile forensics for the iOS, Android, and the Windows Phone platforms

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788839198

Length 402 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

Android

Concepts

Forensics

Authors (4):

Oleg Skulkin

Satish Bommisetty

Rohit Tamma

Heather Mahalik

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

1. Introduction to Mobile Forensics FREE CHAPTER

2. Understanding the Internals of iOS Devices

3. Data Acquisition from iOS Devices

4. Data Acquisition from iOS Backups

5. iOS Data Analysis and Recovery

6. iOS Forensic Tools

7. Understanding Android

8. Android Forensic Setup and Pre-Data Extraction Techniques

9. Android Data Extraction Techniques

10. Android Data Analysis and Recovery

11. Android App Analysis, Malware, and Reverse Engineering

12. Windows Phone Forensics

13. Parsing Third-Party Application Files

14. Other Books You May Enjoy

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The Android model

To effectively understand the forensic concepts of Android, it would be helpful to have a basic understanding of the Android architecture. Just like a computer, any computing system that interacts with the user and performs complicated tasks requires an operating system to handle the tasks effectively. This operating system (whether it's a desktop operating system or a mobile phone operating system) takes the responsibility of managing the resources of the system and to provide a way for the applications to talk to the hardware or physical components to accomplish certain tasks. Android is currently the most popular mobile operating system designed to power mobile devices. You can find out more about this at: https://developer.android.com/about/android.html.

Android is open source and the code is released under the Apache license. Practically, this means anyone (especially device manufacturers) can access it, freely modify it, and use the software according to the requirements...

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Authors (2)

Mahalik

Mahalik

Heather Mahalik is the senior director of digital intelligence at Cellebrite. She is a senior instructor and author for the SANS Institute, and she is also the course lead for the FOR585 Smartphone Forensic Analysis In-Depth course. With 18 years of experience in digital forensics, she continues to thrive on smartphone investigations, digital forensics, forensic course development and instruction, and research on application analysis and smartphone forensics.

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Satish Bommisetty

Satish Bommisetty

Satish Bommisetty is a security architect currently working with JDA. His primary areas of interest include web and mobile application security, cloud security, and iOS forensics. He has presented at security conferences, such as ClubHACK and C0C0n. Satish is one of the top bug bounty hunters and is listed in the halls of fame of Google, Facebook, PayPal, Microsoft, Yahoo, Salesforce, and more, for identifying and reporting their security vulnerabilities. You can reach him on Twitter at @satishb3.

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