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You're reading from Practical Mobile Forensics A hands-on guide to mastering mobile forensics for the iOS, Android, and the Windows Phone platforms

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788839198

Length 402 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

Android

Concepts

Forensics

Authors (4):

Oleg Skulkin

Satish Bommisetty

Rohit Tamma

Heather Mahalik

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

1. Introduction to Mobile Forensics FREE CHAPTER

2. Understanding the Internals of iOS Devices

3. Data Acquisition from iOS Devices

4. Data Acquisition from iOS Backups

5. iOS Data Analysis and Recovery

6. iOS Forensic Tools

7. Understanding Android

8. Android Forensic Setup and Pre-Data Extraction Techniques

9. Android Data Extraction Techniques

10. Android Data Analysis and Recovery

11. Android App Analysis, Malware, and Reverse Engineering

12. Windows Phone Forensics

13. Parsing Third-Party Application Files

14. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Working with iCloud backups

iCloud is a cloud storage and cloud computing service by Apple, launched in October 2011. The service allows users to keep data such as calendars, contacts, reminders, photos, documents, bookmarks, applications, notes, and more in sync across multiple compatible devices (iOS devices running with iOS 5 or later, computers with macOS X 10.7.2 or later, and Microsoft Windows), using a centralized iCloud account. The service also allows users to wirelessly and automatically back up their iOS devices to iCloud. iCloud also provides other services, such as Find My iPhone (to track a lost phone and wipe it remotely), Find My Friends (to share locations with friends and notify the user when a device arrives at a certain location), and more.

Signing up with iCloud is free and simple to do with an Apple ID. When you sign up for iCloud, Apple grants you access...

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Authors (2)

Mahalik

Heather Mahalik is the senior director of digital intelligence at Cellebrite. She is a senior instructor and author for the SANS Institute, and she is also the course lead for the FOR585 Smartphone Forensic Analysis In-Depth course. With 18 years of experience in digital forensics, she continues to thrive on smartphone investigations, digital forensics, forensic course development and instruction, and research on application analysis and smartphone forensics.

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Satish Bommisetty

Satish Bommisetty is a security architect currently working with JDA. His primary areas of interest include web and mobile application security, cloud security, and iOS forensics. He has presented at security conferences, such as ClubHACK and C0C0n. Satish is one of the top bug bounty hunters and is listed in the halls of fame of Google, Facebook, PayPal, Microsoft, Yahoo, Salesforce, and more, for identifying and reporting their security vulnerabilities. You can reach him on Twitter at @satishb3.

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