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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

Mobile devices from the Apple company, such as iPhones and iPads, occupy about 15% of the mobile device market. Due to this fact, they often become the object of forensic analysis.

Mobile devices from the Apple company are the most complex objects in forensic analysis. The restrictions of access to the user’s data used in the devices do not allow extracting the data in full. The encryption makes the use of all known file recovery algorithms useless. Even if you manage to recover a file in some way, its content will be unavailable, as it will remain encrypted.

The complete examination of an Apple device is possible if you jailbreak it. The file system can be extracted from such a device and via analysis of the file system, you can extract a maximum number of user data. However, this operation cannot be performed for all types of such devices.

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