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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

Cloud Acquisition


Windows RT is a Windows 8/8.1-based OS. As such, the system has the ability to maintain cloud backups in Microsoft OneDrive. Information backed up into the cloud includes contacts, messages, synced Internet Explorer passwords, list of installed applications, and some application settings such as stored passwords (for example, reinstalling a previously installed Pocket client after a full factory reset does not require logging in; the app will work immediately. However, any downloaded content will be re-downloaded).

The data is only automatically backed up if the user is logged in with a Microsoft Account (as opposed to using a local Windows account) and has the Backup option enabled in the settings. This, however, is a typical usage scenario for Windows RT tablets.

In order to download Windows RT data, use the Download Windows Phone data acquisition option in Elcomsoft Phone Breaker:

You will need to specify the user's Microsoft Account login and password.

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