Practical Mobile Forensics

This is an excellent forensics overview of where important files can be found on multiple mobile platforms. One of the biggest challenges for a mobile examiner is the ability to shift gears to a different operating system and perform a competent exam on short notice. this book is useful for the main file/data locations where key info lives. It is not meant for a deep and detailed analysis of specific operating system point release nuances, but there are other references that do offer a deep dive when needed. The title is exactly what the book does. It is a useful reference.

Great item at a great price. Thank you.

Not a bad book as an introduction, but this field of study changes so much you are better off with journals and researching online. I bought it for a class. It is still pretty fresh, 2014 publish, but its already dated in parts. Not the authors fault as phone hardware and software moves quick.

excellent

The book achieves very well its goal to be a good hands-on guide for both forensic professionals and people interested in data recovery from mobile devices.In fact there are specific sections where it explains how to conduct a forensic analysis and the forensic tools that are available for this purpose, while the rest of the book has parts that are useful for everyone.The book is up to date with the mobile devices that you can find on the market today and explains how to handle them, covering the four most widespread operating systems on the mobile market: iOS, Android, Windows Phone and BlackBerry OS.For each of this systems, there is an in depth explanation of the internals of the operating system, focusing on security related aspects and on how data is stored on the device.This theory session is followed by a practical part, where the author explains common techniques to take control on the device and acquire data from it, starting with standard tools and introducing more specific tools, leaving forensic tools at the end.This scheme lets the reader familiarize with the device and commonly available tools, helping him to better understand how the device works and how to handle it without sophisticated tools that simplify the work.Overall, I think this is a good book to read if you are looking to learn how to conduct a forensic analysis of mobile devices and the related techniques or just want to learn how mobile devices work and how to recover data from them.

Excellent guide to not only useful tools to analyze and recover data from mobile devices, iOS, Android, and MS are all covered. While I felt restricted as the author used Mac OS for most of the operations for the iOS devices, some windows applications that are open source would be nice to have. If this is for a professional company then the $1,500 price tag for one of the software options are not a major concern.You'll certainly walk away with a good understanding of how the different OS versions store the data and how to access it rather quickly, having rooted devices makes this task much easier. Part of gathering data is knowing where to look and this book not only gives you that information, but takes it a step further and gives you some handy database related commands to extract the data you'd most likely be interested in.All in all I give this book 5 starts because it did have a lot of solid information despite the lack luster for lower cost software solutions. If you're looking to get into data recovery for mobile platforms or do the forensic work, do yourself a favor and pick up a copy of this book already.Publisher Link: https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/practical-mobile-forensics

Practical Mobile Forensics is an introduction to mobile forensics for iOS, Android, Windows Phone and BlackBerry devices.The book has a repeating format for each platform following along the lines of theory, data extraction, and analysis.Due to device availability, the only chapters I went through were for iOS and Android. I was able to complete the Android chapters without any issues, however, i feel that some changes in iOS 8 likely caused a little bit of issues here and there with the iOS side. Also, a lot of the tools/techniques happen to mention support for iOS versions less than 6.1.Overall, I felt this book provided a good foundation into getting into mobile forensics. Due to the cost of a lot of the software covered in this book, I would recommend this more for enterprise-level users who likely have licenses to the software discussed in this book.

Excellent book. It is a very reliable guide either for professional or for people interested in a solid a reliable guide to data recovery and mobile forensic.Some tools used are expensive and more suitable for professional companies, nonetheless non professional users wil beneficiate of the clear methodology framework applied for all different OS examined: iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows.

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Great book, bought it to do my final year project on Mobile phone forensics, info on the phone specifications and Oxygen are great!