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Practical Mobile Forensics - Fourth Edition

By : Rohit Tamma, Oleg Skulkin, Heather Mahalik, Satish Bommisetty
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Book Image

Practical Mobile Forensics - Fourth Edition

5 (1)
By: Rohit Tamma, Oleg Skulkin, Heather Mahalik, Satish Bommisetty

Overview of this book

Mobile phone forensics is the science of retrieving data from a mobile phone under forensically sound conditions. This updated fourth edition of Practical Mobile Forensics delves into the concepts of mobile forensics and its importance in today's world. The book focuses on teaching you the latest forensic techniques to investigate mobile devices across various mobile platforms. You will learn forensic techniques for multiple OS versions, including iOS 11 to iOS 13, Android 8 to Android 10, and Windows 10. The book then takes you through the latest open source and commercial mobile forensic tools, enabling you to analyze and retrieve data effectively. From inspecting the device and retrieving data from the cloud, through to successfully documenting reports of your investigations, you'll explore new techniques while building on your practical knowledge. Toward the end, you will understand the reverse engineering of applications and ways to identify malware. Finally, the book guides you through parsing popular third-party applications, including Facebook and WhatsApp. By the end of this book, you will be proficient in various mobile forensic techniques to analyze and extract data from mobile devices with the help of open source solutions.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Free Chapter
2
Section 1: iOS Forensics
8
Section 2: Android Forensics
14
Section 3: Windows Forensics and Third-Party Apps

iPhone models and hardware

The iPhone is among the most popular smartphones on the market. Apple released the first-generation iPhone in June 2007. Since the first release, the iPhone became extremely popular due to its many groundbreaking features and usability. The introduction of the iPhone has since redefined the entire world of mobile computing. Consumers have started looking for faster and more efficient phones. Various iPhone models now exist, with different features and storage capabilities to serve consumer requirements.

The iPhones released since the third edition of Practical Mobile Forensics—the iPhone XR, XS, XS Max, 11, and 11 Pro—can be challenging when it comes to dealing with filesystem forensic acquisition methods. Just like the devices released since the iPhone 5, there is no method or tool available to physically recover data from these devices...