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iOS Forensics Cookbook
iOS Forensics Cookbook

iOS Forensics Cookbook: Over 20 recipes that will enable you to handle and extract data from iOS devices for forensics

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iOS Forensics Cookbook

Chapter 2. Social Media Integration

Social media has captured a huge market place in the technological world. This market shift redirects the focus of app developers to social media integration in their applications. In this chapter, our prime focus will be to integrate various social media platforms in our applications. This chapter will further broaden our approach to understand this for analytical usage as well.

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Integration with Facebook or Twitter
  • Integration with LinkedIn
  • Integration with Instagram

Integration with Facebook

Integration of social sites in an app is very common nowadays. With the release of iOS 6, Apple has introduced a new framework for social media integration known as Social.framework. This social framework allows developers to instantly integrate social networking services into applications such as Facebook and Twitter.

Getting ready

We will create an app to demonstrate social media integration. We will start by creating a new iOS app project.

  1. Open Xcode and go to File | New | File and select Single View Application by navigating to iOS | Application. In the popup, provide the product name Social Media Integration. It should look similar to the following screenshot:
    Getting ready
  2. Click on Next and save the project. After creating the project, we need to add a Social.framework. To add this library, go to the target action of the project and scroll down to Linked Frameworks and Libraries and click on the Add button and add Social.framework in our project.
    Getting ready

How to do it...

Now our project...

Integrating with LinkedIn

Now, we'll use Social.framework to integrate LinkedIn into our application.

Getting ready

For LinkedIn integration, we will continue with the preceding project. Open the project and redesign the storyboard. Add another button with the Facebook and Twitter buttons. Drag one more view controller from the inspector element and drop it on the canvas. Design the new view according to the following screenshot. There, we have two labels, two buttons, and one text view.

Getting ready

How to do it...

  1. Add a new class for the new view (for example, LinkedinViewController). Make a connection for the UI element, and our LinkedinViewController.h file looks like the following screenshot:
    How to do it...
  2. Now, we need to register our app on the LinkedIn developer site. Go to https://www.linkedin.com/secure/developer and add your application. There we will get an API key and secret key, which will need in our code.
    How to do it...
  3. After registering our app, we need to download the third-party library for integration of LinkedIn...

Integration with Instagram

Now, we'll use Social.framework to integrate Instagram into our application.

Getting ready

For Instagram integration, we will continue with the preceding project. Open the project and redesign the storyboard. Add another button after Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Drag one more view controller from the inspector element and drop it onto the canvas. Design the new view according to the following screenshot. Drag two buttons from the interface builder and name them Login and Logout respectively.

Getting ready

How to do it...

  1. Add a new file class in our project and name it InstagramLoginViewController. Make this class the owner of the newly created view controller. Then, link the button to this class as the action method
  2. Now, we have to register our app to the Instagram Developers site as we did in previous integrations. Go to http://instagram.com/developer/register/ and register your app.
  3. After a successful registration, Instagram will give you a client ID; save it somewhere...
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Key benefits

  • This book gets you straight into solving even the most complex iOS forensic problems with easy-to-understand recipes
  • Get to grips with extraction and analysis techniques to perform forensic investigations on iOS devices
  • Gain insights into how to protect your data and perform data recovery from iOS-based devices

Description

Mobile device forensics is a branch of digital forensics that involves the recovery of evidence or data in a digital format from a device without affecting its integrity. With the growing popularity of iOS-based Apple devices, iOS forensics has developed immense importance. To cater to the need, this book deals with tasks such as the encryption and decryption of files, various ways to integrate techniques withsocial media, and ways to grab the user events and actions on the iOS app. Using practical examples, we’ll start with the analysis keychain and raw disk decryption, social media integration, and getting accustomed to analytics tools. You’ll also learn how to distribute the iOS apps without releasing them to Apple’s App Store. Moving on, the book covers test flights and hockey app integration, the crash reporting system, recovery tools, and their features. By the end of the book, using the aforementioned techniques, you will be able to successfully analyze iOS-based devices forensically.

Who is this book for?

If you are an iOS application developer who wants to learn about a test flight, hockey app integration, and recovery tools, then this book is for you. This book will be helpful for students learning forensics, as well as experienced iOS developers.

What you will learn

  • Discover the various ways to save data in the document directory of the device
  • Get to grips with encrypting and decrypting of files saved in the document directories
  • Explore ways to integrate social media with iOS applications
  • Grab the user events and actions on the iOS application using analytic tools
  • Analyze useful information from the data gathered in the cloud
  • Grasp numerous concepts associated with air application distribution
  • Track errors in an application effectively to document them for forensic analysis
  • Read crash reports accumulated on iTunesConnect and decode them to generate and gather useful information

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Table of Contents

8 Chapters
1. Saving and Extracting Data Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Social Media Integration Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Integrating Data Analytics Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. App Distribution and Crash Reporting Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. Demystifying Crash Reports Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Forensics Recovery Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. Forensics Tools Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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I really waste my time reading this book... I'm in the middle of a case and I was trying to solve an issue that popped up and this book pretends to have the solution and it has not... is more about using databases and another social media API`s.... only 1 forensic chapter and nothing as deep as it claims.
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