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Mobile Forensics Cookbook

By : Igor Mikhaylov
Book Image

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

Using Elcomsoft Phone Breaker to extract data from iCloud


Elcomsoft Phone Breaker is the perfect tool to extract data from cloud services. Despite its modest interface, it has great functionality and extracts the maximum amount of data. The peculiarity of Elcomsoft Phone Breaker is that an expert will need additional software from the same company to view the extracted data (Elcomsoft Phone Viewer), unlike other programs described in this chapter. Elcomsoft Phone Breaker is the cheapest of all the programs we have explored for cloud services data extraction. In this recipe, we will cover the extraction of iTunes backups saved in iCloud using Elcomsoft Phone Breaker.

Getting ready

Download the program from the following links and activate it with the code that will be sent to you via email:

How to do it…

  1. Double-click the icon of the program to start...