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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

BlackBerry acquisition with BlackBerry Desktop Software


Blackberry Desktop Software is an alternative tool that can be used for creating backups of the data on a BlackBerry device. Subsequently, the data from these backups can be extracted by third-party forensic tools. It should be remembered that the data in the backups is encrypted. In order to decrypt the data, you need to have a login and password from the device owner's account.

Getting ready

  1. Download BlackBerry desktop software from https://us.blackberry.com/software/desktop . Double-click the downloaded file, then the program installation process will start. The following components will be installed:
    • Drivers for BlackBerry mobile devices.
    • BlackBerry Blend is a tool that is used for data viewing (such as calendar and contacts) on the device. BlackBerry Blend can be used to transfer files between the device and computer.
    • BlackBerry Link is used to create backups of the device and transfer the owner's data to a new device. Also, BlackBerry...