Mobile forensics
Mobile Forensics has become one the biggest areas of specialization in forensics – not just because almost everyone has a smartphone, but because smartphones can collect a huge amount of data.
The cool thing about mobile forensics is that in some cases, you don't even need the phone to gather some of the data that's been collected by your smartphone. Let me show you how.
Deviceless forensics
Smartphones gather a lot of information, such as location, messages, searches, frequently visited places, app usage, browsing history, and more, but the most interesting part is that Google (yes, Google) records all that data on their cloud. Let's learn how to access it:
- Go to https://takeout.google.com.
- Log in with your user credentials.
- Select the data you want to retrieve.
- Choose how you want the files to be delivered (to a drive, cloud storage, or via a link for a direct download).
- Select whether you want to export the...
