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Mobile Forensics

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Part of the book series: Studies in Big Data ((SBD,volume 61))

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In this chapter, we forensically examine a Samsung Galaxy S7 running Android Version 8.0.0 and an iPhone 7 running iOS version 12.1, and report on the findings of the forensic examination.

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Troutman, C., Mancha, V. (2020). Mobile Forensics. In: Zhang, X., Choo, KK. (eds) Digital Forensic Education. Studies in Big Data, vol 61. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23547-5_10

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