Moreover, syncing such devices with the computer has become a very easy and smooth process, and all user activities, schedules, to-do lists, and everything else is stored inside the smartphone.
Just think of all the applications people have installed in their smartphones: IM clients, web browsers, social networks clients, password managers, navigation systems, and much more, other than the "default" classic ones such as an address book, which can provide a lot more information other than just the phone number for each contact that has been saved. Such variety of mobile devices makes it difficult, or almost impossible, to develop a single solution, whether a process or a tool, to address all possible scenarios. Additionally, new models of phones are being developed all around the world with new phones being released every week. Mobile devices present many new challenges from a forensics perspective. For this reason, their analysis gives access to plenty of personal information. One of the most interesting peculiarities of mobile forensics is that mobile devices, particularly mobile phones, usually belong to a single individual, while this is not always the case with a computer that may be shared among employees of a company or members of a family. Moreover, the importance of mobile forensics is increasing exponentially due to the continuous and fast growth of the mobile market. Among the different digital forensics fields, mobile forensics is without doubt the fastest growing and evolving area of study, having an impact on many different situations from corporate to criminal investigations, to intelligence gathering, which is every day higher. Mobile forensics is the digital forensics field of study, focusing on mobile devices. This means that forensic investigators have to be able to deal with all these devices.Īs defined at the first Digital Forensics Research Workshop ( DFRWS) in 2001, digital forensics is stated as: Today more than ever we live in a society that is fully digitalized, and people are equipped with any kind of device, which have different types of capabilities but all of them process, store, and transmit information (mainly over the Internet). Digital forensics, which includes all disciplines dealing with electronic evidences is also being applied to common crimes, to those that, at least by definition, are not strictly IT crimes. Nowadays, things have changed radically and are still changing at a quite fast pace as the technology evolves. As cellphones became more popular, the new field of mobile forensics developed. This would involve two types of offense: unlawful/unauthorized access and data theft. Not so long ago we would be talking mainly, if not solely, about computer forensics and computer crimes, such as an attacker breaking into a computer network system and stealing data.
The book will give you an overview of how to analyze malicious applications created to steal user credentials and data.
After that, you, the examiner, will be taken through steps to analyze the data.
Throughout the journey, you will gain knowledge of the best way to extract most of the information by eventually bypassing the protection passcode. You will begin with simple concepts such as identifying the specific iOS device and the operating system version and then move on to complex topics such as analyzing the different recognized techniques to acquire the content of the device. Learning iOS Forensics will give you an insight into the forensics activities you can perform on iOS devices. This has increased the need to successfully retrieve this information from these devices if stolen or lost. Millions of people often depend on iOS devices for storing sensitive information, leading to a rise in cybercrime. iOS devices, with their wide range of functionality and usability, have become one of the mobile market leaders. It has an impact on many different situations including criminal investigations and intelligence gathering. Mobile device forensics relates to the recovery of data from a mobile device.