Mobile Forensics
Data extracted from devices during the mobile forensics process can provide investigators and attorneys with the information they need to crack a case wide open. Mobile devices go everywhere the users goes which means they can tell a story about who the user is communicating with, what they are communicating about, and where the user has been.
What digital forensics artifacts can you find on a mobile phone?
As of 2016, there were 395.9 million wireless subscriber connections of smartphones, feature phones, and tablets in the United States, roughly 120% of the population. Mobile forensics is the service through which examiners extract and evaluate the data stored within a mobile device. Modern smartphones contain a plethora of information that could potentially be of evidentiary value including:
- Incoming, outgoing, missed call history
- Phone book or contact lists
- SMS text, application-based, and multimedia messaging content
- Pictures, videos, audio files, and sometimes voicemail messages
- Internet browsing history, content, cookies, search history, analytics information
- To-do lists, notes, calendar entries, ringtones
- Documents, spreadsheets, presentation files and other user-created data
- Passwords, passcodes, swipe codes, user account credentials
- Historical geolocation data, cell phone location data, Wi-Fi connection information
- User dictionary content
- Data from various installed apps
- System files, usage logs, error messages
- Deleted data from all of the above