Mobile device forensics : a snapshot / Christopher Tassone ... [et al.].

Canberra : Australian Institute of Criminology, 2013.

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Electronic evidence.

Electronic discovery (Law)

Smartphones -- Law and legislation.

In the increasingly dynamic environment of mobile forensics, this paper provides an overview of the capabilities of three popular mobile forensic tools on three mobile phones based on Apple's iOS, Google's Android and RIM's BlackBerry operating systems. The paper identifies where each specific tool is best applied and also describes the limitations of each in accessing contacts, call history, message data (SMS, MMS and emails), media files and other data. New releases of forensic tools and mobile operating systems may change the way the data are acquired and preserved in the future. It is therefore hoped that future research will continue to provide the digital forensics community with the most up-to-date overview of mobile forensics capabilities.

Title from title caption of PDF document (viewed on October 21, 2013).

"August 2013".

Includes bibliographical references (p. 6-7).

Text and tables.

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