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Practical Mobile Forensics

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Practical Mobile Forensics

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Practical Mobile Forensics
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
10
Android Data Recovery Techniques
Index

MOBILedit


As per the vendor, the MOBILedit forensic tool can be used to view, search, or retrieve data from a phone, including call history, phonebook, text messages, multimedia messages, files, calendars, notes, reminders, and application data such as Skype, Dropbox, Evernote, and more. It will also retrieve phone information such as IMEI, operating systems, firmware including SIM details (IMSI), ICCID, and location area information. Depending on the circumstances, MOBILedit is also able to retrieve deleted data from phones and bypass the passcode, PIN, and phone backup encryption. The setup file can be downloaded from www.mobiledit.com and can be installed easily. Once installed, perform the following steps to extract information from an Android phone using the MOBILedit software:

  1. Ensure that USB debugging is enabled on the device and connect the Android device to the forensic workstation using a USB cable. MOBILedit attempts to detect the device, and to install the Connector app on the...