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Practical Mobile Forensics - Second Edition

By : Heather Mahalik, Rohit Tamma, Satish Bommisetty
Book Image

Practical Mobile Forensics - Second Edition

By: Heather Mahalik, Rohit Tamma, Satish Bommisetty

Overview of this book

Mobile phone forensics is the science of retrieving data from a mobile phone under forensically sound conditions. This book is an update to Practical Mobile Forensics and it delves into the concepts of mobile forensics and its importance in today's world. We will deep dive into mobile forensics techniques in iOS 8 - 9.2, Android 4.4 - 6, and Windows Phone devices. We will demonstrate the latest open source and commercial mobile forensics tools, enabling you to analyze and retrieve data effectively. You will learn how to introspect and retrieve data from cloud, and document and prepare reports for your investigations. By the end of this book, you will have mastered the current operating systems and techniques so you can recover data from mobile devices by leveraging open source solutions.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Practical Mobile Forensics - Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
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Preface

Forensic methods used to extract third-party application data


Almost all commercial tools will attempt to support the extraction of third-party applications. We recommend that you test your tools thoroughly and often if you rely on tool output for your investigative results. This is because the apps are updated so frequently that it is nearly impossible for the tools to not miss something. You must learn the applications, how they work, and how the devices store the data for each. We strongly recommend that you use your tool to triage the case and then dive into the data to manually extract anything that the tools miss. Make sure that you only include factual data in your forensic report and not everything that the tools parses. The tools cannot decipher the difference between device and human creation. Only a trained examiner can do this with confidence.

Commercial tools

As you have seen in this book, there are many tools that can handle the job of smartphone forensics. However, there are...