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Practical Mobile Forensics - Fourth Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Apr 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838647520
Pages 400 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Authors (4):
Rohit Tamma Rohit Tamma
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Oleg Skulkin Oleg Skulkin
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Heather Mahalik Heather Mahalik
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Satish Bommisetty Satish Bommisetty
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface 1. Introduction to Mobile Forensics 2. Section 1: iOS Forensics
3. Understanding the Internals of iOS Devices 4. Data Acquisition from iOS Devices 5. Data Acquisition from iOS Backups 6. iOS Data Analysis and Recovery 7. iOS Forensic Tools 8. Section 2: Android Forensics
9. Understanding Android 10. Android Forensic Setup and Pre-Data Extraction Techniques 11. Android Data Extraction Techniques 12. Android Data Analysis and Recovery 13. Android App Analysis, Malware, and Reverse Engineering 14. Section 3: Windows Forensics and Third-Party Apps
15. Windows Phone Forensics 16. Parsing Third-Party Application Files 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding techniques to recover deleted files from the SD card and the internal memory

Data recovery is one of the most significant and powerful aspects of forensic analysis. The ability to recover deleted data can be crucial to crack many civil and criminal cases. From a normal user's point of view, recovering data that has been deleted would usually refer to the operating system's built-in solutions, such as the Recycle Bin in Windows. While it's true that data can be recovered from these locations, due to an increase in user awareness, these options don't often work. For instance, on a desktop computer, people now use Shift + Delete as a way to delete a file completely from their desktop.

Data recovery is the process of retrieving deleted data from a device when it cannot be accessed normally. Consider the scenario where a mobile phone has been seized...

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