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Learning Android Forensics

You're reading from   Learning Android Forensics Analyze Android devices with the latest forensic tools and techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789131017
Length 328 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Oleg Skulkin Oleg Skulkin
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Donnie Tindall Donnie Tindall
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Rohit Tamma Rohit Tamma
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Preface 1. Introducing Android Forensics FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting up the Android Forensic Environment 3. Understanding Data Storage on Android Devices 4. Extracting Data Logically from Android Devices 5. Extracting Data Physically from Android Devices 6. Recovering Deleted Data from an Android Device 7. Forensic Analysis of Android Applications 8. Android Forensic Tools Overview 9. Identifying Android Malware 10. Android Malware Analysis 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Recovering deleted data from SD cards

Data present on an SD card can reveal lots of information that is useful during a forensic investigation. The fact that pictures, videos, voice recordings, and application data are stored on the SD card adds weight to this. As mentioned in the previous chapters, Android devices often use FAT32 or exFAT file systems on their SD card. The main reason for this is that these file systems are widely supported by most operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and macOS X. The maximum file size on a FAT32 formatted drive is around 4 GB. With increasingly high resolution formats now available, this limit is commonly reached, that's why newer devices support exFAT: this file system doesn't have such limitations. Recovering the data deleted from an external SD is pretty easy if it can be mounted as a drive.

If the SD card is removable,...

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