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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
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About the Authors
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Preface

Working with NowSecureCE


NowSecure offers a free acquisition tool for everyone to use. This tool, NowSecureCE, previously known as ViaExtractCE, provides support for file system, logical, and backup file acquisitions of iOS and Android devices. The tool currently exists within a provided virtual machine, but this may change with future releases. For more information, visit https://www.nowsecure.com/forensics/.

Features of NowSecureCE

The following are the features of NowSecureCE:

  • It supports file system, logical, and backup extractions for iOS and Android devices

  • It recovers calls, SMS, contacts, and more

  • It provides methods for obtaining root access on Android devices

  • It supports parsing Android and iOS backup files

Usage of NowSecureCE

NowSecure CE supports Android and iOS files and is easy to use, once you get the VM up and running. The following steps will guide you through the recommended steps for acquiring iOS devices:

  1. Once the VM is launched, select NowSecure.

  2. Next, select New to create a...