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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2016
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ISBN-13 9781786464200
Length 412 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Rohit Tamma Rohit Tamma
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Satish Bommisetty Satish Bommisetty
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Heather Mahalik Heather Mahalik
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Preface 1. Introduction to Mobile Forensics FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding the Internals of iOS Devices 3. iOS Forensic Tools 4. Data Acquisition from iOS Devices 5. Data Acquisition from iOS Backups 6. iOS Data Analysis and Recovery 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

The Android file system

Understanding the file system is one essential part of forensic methodologies. Knowledge about properties and the structure of a file system proves to be useful during forensic analysis. The file system refers to the way data is stored, organized, and retrieved from a volume. A basic installation may be based on one volume split into several partitions; here, each partition can be managed by a different file system. As is true in Linux, Android utilizes mount points and not drives (that is, C: or E:). Each file system defines its own rules for managing the files in the volume. Depending on these rules, each file system offers a different speed for file retrieval, security, size, and so on. Linux uses several file systems and so does Android. From a forensic point of view, it's important to understand which file systems are used by Android and to identify the file systems that are of significance to the investigation. For example, the file system that stores...

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