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Practical investigations of digital forensics tools for mobile devices

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With the continued growth of the mobile device market, the possibility of their use in criminal activity will only continue to increase. While the mobile device market provides a great variety of manufactures and models causing a strong diversity. It becomes difficult for a professional investigator to choose the proper forensics tools for seizing internal data from mobile devices. Through this paper, we will give a comprehensive perspective of each popular digital forensic tool and offer an inside view for investigators to choose their free sources or commercial tools. In addition, a summary for the future direction for forensics tools in mobile devices.

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InfoSecCD '10: 2010 Information Security Curriculum Development Conference
October 2010
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DOI:10.1145/1940941
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  1. Paraben CSI stick
  2. XRY
  3. cell seizure
  4. digital forensics
  5. forensics tools
  6. handheld devices
  7. mobile devices

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