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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

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The filesystem

To better understand the forensic process of an iOS device, it is good to know about the filesystem that is used. The filesystem used in the iPhone and other Apple iOS devices is HFSX, a variation of HFS Plus with one major difference. HFSX is case-sensitive whereas HFS Plus is case-insensitive. Other differences will be discussed later in this chapter. OS X uses HFS Plus by default and iOS uses HFSX. Apple File System (APFS) was introduced in June 2016 as a replacement for HFS+, and released for iOS devices with the release of iOS 10.3, and for macOS devices with the release of macOS 10.13.

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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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