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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

SQLite databases

SQLite is an open source, in-process library that implements a self-contained, zero configuration, and transactional SQL database engine. This is a complete database with multiple tables, triggers, and views that are contained in a single cross-platform file. As SQLite is portable, reliable, and small, it is a popular database format that appears in many mobile platforms.

Apple iOS devices, like other smartphones, make heavy use of SQLite databases for data storage. Many of the built-in applications, such as Phone, Messages, Mail, Calendar, and Notes, store data in SQLite databases. Apart from this, third-party applications installed on the device also leverage SQLite databases for data storage.

SQLite databases are created with or without a file extension. They typically have the .sqlitedb or .db file extensions, but some databases are given other extensions as well. Data in SQLite files is broken up into tables that contain the actual data. To access the data stored...

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