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Practical Mobile Forensics

You're reading from   Practical Mobile Forensics Forensically investigate and analyze iOS, Android, and Windows 10 devices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838647520
Length 400 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Heather Mahalik Heather Mahalik
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Oleg Skulkin Oleg Skulkin
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Rohit Tamma Rohit Tamma
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Satish Bommisetty Satish Bommisetty
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Mobile Forensics 2. Section 1: iOS Forensics FREE CHAPTER
3. Understanding the Internals of iOS Devices 4. Data Acquisition from iOS Devices 5. Data Acquisition from iOS Backups 6. iOS Data Analysis and Recovery 7. iOS Forensic Tools 8. Section 2: Android Forensics
9. Understanding Android 10. Android Forensic Setup and Pre-Data Extraction Techniques 11. Android Data Extraction Techniques 12. Android Data Analysis and Recovery 13. Android App Analysis, Malware, and Reverse Engineering 14. Section 3: Windows Forensics and Third-Party Apps
15. Windows Phone Forensics 16. Parsing Third-Party Application Files 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Android malware

As Android's market share continues to increase, so do attacks or malware targeted at Android users. Mobile malware is a broad term that refers to a piece of software that performs unintended actions and includes Trojans, spyware, adware, ransomware, and others. According to pandasecurity, Android devices are 50 times more infected with malware compared to iOS devices (https://www.pandasecurity.com/mediacenter/mobile-security/android-more-infected-than-ios/). In 2019, the famous Agent Smith malware alone infected almost 25 million Android devices, as per a Cybersecurity Hub news report (https://www.cshub.com/malware/articles/incident-of-the-week-malware-infects-25m-android-phones).

One of the primary reasons for this situation is that, unlike Apple's App Store, which is tightly controlled by the company, Google's Play Store is an open ecosystem...

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