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Mobile Forensics Cookbook

You're reading from Mobile Forensics Cookbook Data acquisition, extraction, recovery techniques, and investigations using modern forensic tools

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781785282058

Length 302 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Oxygen Forensics

Concepts

Forensics

Author (1):

Mikhaylov

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. SIM Card Acquisition and Analysis FREE CHAPTER

2. Android Device Acquisition

3. Apple Device Acquisition

4. Windows Phone and BlackBerry Acquisition

5. Clouds are Alternative Data Sources

6. SQLite Forensics

7. Understanding Plist Forensics

8. Analyzing Physical Dumps and Backups of Android Devices

9. iOS Forensics

10. Windows Phone and BlackBerry Forensics

11. JTAG and Chip-off Techniques

Unlocking a locked Apple device

As was mentioned previously, using lockdown files is the easiest way to unlock any Apple mobile device. An expert can use this method if he does not know the password to unlock the device. The disadvantage of this method is that the expert has to have a computer or a laptop of the device’s owner, to which the device was connected before.

How to do it…

Let us now learn how to unlock locked Apple devices:

Lockdown files are created by iTunes when an Apple mobile device is connected to a computer - for example, during synchronization of audio files. If an expert has a mobile device and a computer (or laptop) seized from the same person as the mobile device, he can find the lockdown files in the following ways:
- Mac OS X – \private\var\db\lockdown
- Windows 2000 and XP – C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Apple\Lockdown
- Windows Vista, 7, 8, and 10 – C:\ProgramData\Apple\Lockdown

Lockdown files

The expert has to copy these files from the examined computer...

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Authors (1)

Mikhaylov

Mikhaylov

Igor Mikhaylov has been working as a forensics expert for 21 years. During this time, he had attended a lot of seminars and training classes in top forensic companies (such as Guidance Software, AccessData, and Cellebrite) and forensic departments of government organizations in the Russian Federation. He has experience and skills in computer forensics, incident response, cellphones forensics, chip-off forensics, malware forensics, data recovery, digital images analysis, video forensics, big data, and other fields. He has worked on several thousand forensic cases. When he works on a forensic case, he examines evidence using in-depth, industry-leading tools and techniques. He uses forensic software and hardware from leaders in the forensics industry. He has written three tutorials on cellphone forensics and incident response for Russian-speaking forensics experts. He is the reviewer of Windows Forensics Cookbook by Oleg Skulkin and Scar de Courcier, Packt Publishing.

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