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Mobile Forensics Cookbook

By : Igor Mikhaylov
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Mobile Forensics Cookbook

By: Igor Mikhaylov

Overview of this book

Considering the emerging use of mobile phones, there is a growing need for mobile forensics. Mobile forensics focuses specifically on performing forensic examinations of mobile devices, which involves extracting, recovering and analyzing data for the purposes of information security, criminal and civil investigations, and internal investigations. Mobile Forensics Cookbook starts by explaining SIM cards acquisition and analysis using modern forensics tools. You will discover the different software solutions that enable digital forensic examiners to quickly and easily acquire forensic images. You will also learn about forensics analysis and acquisition on Android, iOS, Windows Mobile, and BlackBerry devices. Next, you will understand the importance of cloud computing in the world of mobile forensics and understand different techniques available to extract data from the cloud. Going through the fundamentals of SQLite and Plists Forensics, you will learn how to extract forensic artifacts from these sources with appropriate tools. By the end of this book, you will be well versed with the advanced mobile forensics techniques that will help you perform the complete forensic acquisition and analysis of user data stored in different devices.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Unlocking a locked Apple device


As was mentioned previously, using lockdown files is the easiest way to unlock any Apple mobile device. An expert can use this method if he does not know the password to unlock the device. The disadvantage of this method is that the expert has to have a computer or a laptop of the device’s owner, to which the device was connected before.

How to do it…

Let us now learn how to unlock locked Apple devices:

  1. Lockdown files are created by iTunes when an Apple mobile device is connected to a computer - for example, during synchronization of audio files. If an expert has a mobile device and a computer (or laptop) seized from the same person as the mobile device, he can find the lockdown files in the following ways:
    • Mac OS X – \private\var\db\lockdown
    • Windows 2000 and XP – C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Apple\Lockdown
    • Windows Vista, 7, 8, and 10 – C:\ProgramData\Apple\Lockdown

Lockdown files

  1. The expert has to copy these files from the examined computer...