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Mobile Forensics Cookbook

You're reading from   Mobile Forensics Cookbook Data acquisition, extraction, recovery techniques, and investigations using modern forensic tools

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
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ISBN-13 9781785282058
Length 302 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Igor Mikhaylov Igor Mikhaylov
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. SIM Card Acquisition and Analysis FREE CHAPTER 2. Android Device Acquisition 3. Apple Device Acquisition 4. Windows Phone and BlackBerry Acquisition 5. Clouds are Alternative Data Sources 6. SQLite Forensics 7. Understanding Plist Forensics 8. Analyzing Physical Dumps and Backups of Android Devices 9. iOS Forensics 10. Windows Phone and BlackBerry Forensics 11. JTAG and Chip-off Techniques

Introduction

Nowadays, we can see the emergence of new sources of information that is stored or was stored in mobile devices' memory. The most well-known of them are as follows:

  • Google services that store information from mobile devices running Android OS
  • Apple cloud storage, iCloud, which stores data from Apple devices
  • Microsoft services that store information from mobile devices running Windows Phone OS

What are the features of these services? Owners of Apple devices are limited in the way they manage the data that is saved in iCloud. That is why, if a device owner deleted unwanted information from the device, it can be recovered from the iTunes backup, which is stored in iCloud. In the same way, image files and video files that were permanently deleted from devices can be recovered from iTunes and Android backups.

Microsoft services are used for the synchronization of...

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