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Mobile Forensics ??? Advanced Investigative Strategies

By : Oleg Afonin, Vladimir Katalov
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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

JTAG forensics on Windows Phone 8.x and Windows 10 Mobile


Similar to Android, most Windows Phone 7.x, 8.x, and Windows 10 Mobile devices can be successfully acquired via the process of JTAG forensics. The process is very similar to that of acquiring Android devices, so refer to JTAG acquisition in the following chapter, JTAG Forensics [p.42].

The chances of successfully JTAGging a Windows smartphone are very high compared to Android devices. However, things happen to change with regard to JTAG acquisition as Windows Phone 8.x devices upgrade to Windows 10 Mobile.

Windows Phone 8.x device encryption

Windows Phone 8 and 8.1 do not offer a user-configurable setting for encrypting the data partition. According to the official Windows Phone 8.1 Security Overview document (which can be downloaded from https://download.microsoft.com/download/B/9/A/B9A00269-28D5-4ACA-9E8E-E2E722B35A7D/Windows-Phone-8-1-Security-Overview.pdf), internal storage can only be encrypted via a corporate security policy by...