To effectively understand the forensic concepts of Android, it would be helpful to have a basic understanding of the Android architecture. Just like a computer, any computing system that interacts with the user and performs complicated tasks requires an operating system to handle the tasks effectively. This operating system (whether it's a desktop operating system or a mobile phone operating system) takes the responsibility to manage the resources of the system and to provide a way for the applications to talk to the hardware or physical components to accomplish certain tasks. Android is currently the most popular mobile operating system designed to power mobile devices. You can find out more about this at http://developer.android.com/about/index.html. Android is open source and the code is released under Apache license. Practically, this means anyone (especially device manufacturers) can access it, freely modify it, and use the software according to the requirements of...
Practical Mobile Forensics
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Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Practical Mobile Forensics
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
Introduction to Mobile Forensics
Understanding the Internals of iOS Devices
Data Acquisition from iOS Devices
Data Acquisition from iOS Backups
iOS Data Analysis and Recovery
iOS Forensic Tools
Understanding Android
Android Forensic Setup and Pre Data Extraction Techniques
Android Data Extraction Techniques
Android Data Recovery Techniques
Android App Analysis and Overview of Forensic Tools
Windows Phone Forensics
BlackBerry Forensics
Index
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