MOBILE DEVICE FORENSICS CRIME SCENE ANALYSIS You have been called to the scene o

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MOBILE DEVICE FORENSICS CRIME SCENE ANALYSIS

You have been called to the scene of a crime. One criminal is dead and the other has just been taken into custody at the scene. When you arrive you observe the following:

3 USB’s

The following Cell phones: Blackberry 10, PreBlackberry 10, Windows Phone 8, Android 4.0, iPhone 5S, iPad, 2 Portable hard drives

1) What process will you go through before, during and after you arrive at the scene.

2) What tools will you use to examine the mobile devices above?

3) For each type of mobile device what resources will you use to find data such as SMS texts, hidden files, etc. Your description should be detailed.

4) What alternative methods can be used to recover the data from each device?

Explanation / Answer

1) What process will you go through before, during and after you arrive at the scene.
Step1
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Immediately after arriving at the scene. i completely look nook and corner and observe
what had happened in that place.

Step2
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Next will capture all devices mentioned like USB's Mobile Phones and portable hardware and
check for the data.if it is protected with password will call for the expert and open either
phone or portable hardware.

Step3
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Analyze the data in that device and took necessary action.

2) What tools will you use to examine the mobile devices above?
Forensics tools are constantly being developed, updated, patched, and revised.
The iPhone Analyzer is a tool for iphone which allows you to forensically investigate and
recover data from within an iOS device.
Forensics Community Edition was a free forensics tool that allowed users to perform complete
filesystem, backup, and logical extractions, as well as, root Android devices and recover SMS
messages, contacts, call logs, and more.
Imaging tools for NAND, media cards, and RAM

3)There is no forensic program that supports extracting data from all mobile devices existing
in the world.
when investigators were interested in collecting the data from a phone book, calls, SMS messages
that were extracted by forensic expert, has passed. Now they are also interested in history of
network resources (browsers’ data), history of the short messages exchange programs, deleted
files (graphic files, videos, SQLite database, etc.) and other valuable criminalistics information.
oneway to extract data from the device is chip-off method (ie) Direct data extraction from memory
chips of mobile device
4.What alternative methods can be used to recover the data from each device?
Here are some alternatives that might recover data from each device such as mobile app security
and You can seek for the alternatives of data recovery like recovery programs or dedicated data
recovery experts which can guide you well on easily restoring your data from inaccessible
storage device.

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