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Practical Mobile Forensics

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788839198
Length 402 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Oleg Skulkin Oleg Skulkin
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Satish Bommisetty Satish Bommisetty
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Rohit Tamma Rohit Tamma
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Heather Mahalik Heather Mahalik
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

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

Data acquisition


Acquiring data from a Windows Phone is challenging for forensic examiners, as the physical, file system, and logical methods that were defined in previous chapters are not greatly supported. In addition to this, the phone may need to be at a specific battery charge state (%) in order for the commercial tool to recognize and acquire the device. This is often one of the most difficult steps in acquiring Windows Phones. 

One of the most common techniques implemented by commercial tools attempting data acquisition is to install an application or agent on the device, which enables two-way communication for commands to be sent to the device in order to extract data. This could result in certain changes on the device; nevertheless, this is still forensically sound if the examiner follows standard protocols and has tested the validity of the tool being used. These protocols include proper testing to ensure no user data is changed (and if changed, documenting what occurred), validation...

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