Mobile Forensics
Mobile devices can be used to save several types of personal information such as contacts, photos, calendars and notes, SMS and MMS messages. Smartphones may additionally contain video, email, web browsing information, location information, and social networking messages and contacts.
There is growing need for mobile forensics due to several reasons and some of the prominent reasons are:
- Use of mobile phones to store and transmit personal and corporate information.
- Use of mobile phones in online transactions.
- Law enforcement, criminals and mobile phone devices.
Chip-off forensics is an advanced digital data extraction and analysis technique which involves physically removing flash memory chips (IC) from a subject device and then acquiring the raw data using specialized equipment.