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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

Chapter 7. Understanding Android

In the previous chapters, we covered details about iOS devices, including the file system structure, key artifacts, backup files, and acquisition and analysis methods. Starting with this chapter, we will focus on the Android platform and how to perform forensics on Android devices. Having a good understanding of the Android ecosystem, security constraints, file systems, and other features proves useful during forensic investigation. Gaining knowledge of these fundamentals would help a forensic expert to take informed decisions while conducting an investigation.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • Android models

  • Android security

  • The Android file hierarchy

  • The Android file system