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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
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

iPhone hardware


The iPhone is a collection of modules, chips, and electronic components from different manufacturers. Due to the complexities of the iPhone, the list of hardware components is extensive and each device should be researched for internal components.

The following images show the internals of iPhone 6. The images were taken after dismantling the iPhone 6. Internal images for all iPhones can be found in the teardown section at http://www.ifixit.com/Device/iPhone.

The iPhone 6 teardown image-side 1 (https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone+6+Teardown/29213)

The following is the image shows the back of the iPhone 6:

The iPhone 6 teardown image-side 2 (https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone+6+Teardown/29213)