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Practical Mobile Forensics

Practical Mobile Forensics

By : Rohit Tamma, Oleg Skulkin, Mahalik, Satish Bommisetty
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Practical Mobile Forensics

Practical Mobile Forensics

4.3 (9)
By: Rohit Tamma, Oleg Skulkin, Mahalik, Satish Bommisetty

Overview of this book

Mobile phone forensics is the science of retrieving data from a mobile phone under forensically sound conditions. This updated fourth edition of Practical Mobile Forensics delves into the concepts of mobile forensics and its importance in today's world. The book focuses on teaching you the latest forensic techniques to investigate mobile devices across various mobile platforms. You will learn forensic techniques for multiple OS versions, including iOS 11 to iOS 13, Android 8 to Android 10, and Windows 10. The book then takes you through the latest open source and commercial mobile forensic tools, enabling you to analyze and retrieve data effectively. From inspecting the device and retrieving data from the cloud, through to successfully documenting reports of your investigations, you'll explore new techniques while building on your practical knowledge. Toward the end, you will understand the reverse engineering of applications and ways to identify malware. Finally, the book guides you through parsing popular third-party applications, including Facebook and WhatsApp. By the end of this book, you will be proficient in various mobile forensic techniques to analyze and extract data from mobile devices with the help of open source solutions.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Section 1: iOS Forensics
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Section 2: Android Forensics
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Section 3: Windows Forensics and Third-Party Apps

Understanding the Internals of iOS Devices

According to Apple, there were 1.4 billion active Apple devices in 2019, 900 million of which were running on iOS. While iOS is the leading operating system (OS) for tablets worldwide, Android continues to be the leading OS for smartphones. Regardless of the statistics, if you are a forensic examiner, the chances are that you will need to conduct an examination of an iOS device.

In order to perform a forensic examination of an iOS device, you as the examiner must understand the internal components and inner workings of that device. Developing an understanding of the underlying components of a mobile device will help you understand the criticalities involved in the forensic process, including what data can be acquired, where the data is stored, and what methods can be used to access the data from that device. So, before we delve into the...

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