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Mobile Forensics ??? Advanced Investigative Strategies

By : Oleg Afonin, Vladimir Katalov
Book Image

Mobile Forensics ??? Advanced Investigative Strategies

By: Oleg Afonin, Vladimir Katalov

Overview of this book

Investigating digital media is impossible without forensic tools. Dealing with complex forensic problems requires the use of dedicated tools, and even more importantly, the right strategies. In this book, you’ll learn strategies and methods to deal with information stored on smartphones and tablets and see how to put the right tools to work. We begin by helping you understand the concept of mobile devices as a source of valuable evidence. Throughout this book, you will explore strategies and "plays" and decide when to use each technique. We cover important techniques such as seizing techniques to shield the device, and acquisition techniques including physical acquisition (via a USB connection), logical acquisition via data backups, over-the-air acquisition. We also explore cloud analysis, evidence discovery and data analysis, tools for mobile forensics, and tools to help you discover and analyze evidence. By the end of the book, you will have a better understanding of the tools and methods used to deal with the challenges of acquiring, preserving, and extracting evidence stored on smartphones, tablets, and the cloud.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mobile Forensics – Advanced Investigative Strategies
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Analyzing BlackBerry backups


There are many forensic tools on the market that can parse and analyze information stored in BlackBerry backups (provided that the password is known or recovered). ElcomSoft makes the following tools:

Elcomsoft BlackBerry Backup Explorer (for backups produced with BlackBerry 1.0 through 7.1) can access encrypted information stored in password-protection backups if the original password is known or recovered with Elcomsoft Phone Breaker. With the tool, you can extract essential information available in BlackBerry backups, analyze, print, and export information. Elcomsoft BlackBerry Backup Explorer is one of the few tools that can take an encrypted backup and decrypt it on-the-fly with the supplied password.

Elcomsoft Phone Viewer can access decrypted BlackBerry...