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Mobile Forensics ??? Advanced Investigative Strategies

By : Oleg Afonin, Vladimir Katalov
Book Image

Mobile Forensics ??? Advanced Investigative Strategies

By: Oleg Afonin, Vladimir Katalov

Overview of this book

Investigating digital media is impossible without forensic tools. Dealing with complex forensic problems requires the use of dedicated tools, and even more importantly, the right strategies. In this book, you’ll learn strategies and methods to deal with information stored on smartphones and tablets and see how to put the right tools to work. We begin by helping you understand the concept of mobile devices as a source of valuable evidence. Throughout this book, you will explore strategies and "plays" and decide when to use each technique. We cover important techniques such as seizing techniques to shield the device, and acquisition techniques including physical acquisition (via a USB connection), logical acquisition via data backups, over-the-air acquisition. We also explore cloud analysis, evidence discovery and data analysis, tools for mobile forensics, and tools to help you discover and analyze evidence. By the end of the book, you will have a better understanding of the tools and methods used to deal with the challenges of acquiring, preserving, and extracting evidence stored on smartphones, tablets, and the cloud.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mobile Forensics – Advanced Investigative Strategies
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

iOS forensics – introduction


Different devices require different acquisition techniques. The different versions of iOS require different acquisition paths, each having its own vector of attack. While in Apple's sector, we don't nearly see such a wide diversity of devices and heavily-customized versions of the operating system (each with its own vulnerabilities), there are still a lot of devices available.

Generations of Apple hardware

iOS is a closed operating system that's only supported on Apple-manufactured hardware. As a result, we don't have to deal with a dozen different manufacturers and thousands of models. By Q2 2015, Apple had released ten iPhone models, five models of iPod Touch, six full-size iPads, and three models of iPad mini.

While general information and up-to-date specifications of Apple hardware can be viewed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_iOS_devices , there are several things not mentioned in the official specs that can make the device more or less susceptible...