Practical Mobile Forensics
Third Edition
A hands-on guide to mastering mobile forensics for the iOS, Android, and the Windows Phone platforms
Rohit Tamma
Oleg Skulkin
Heather Mahalik
Satish Bommisetty
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Practical Mobile ForensicsThird Edition
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Third edition: January 2018
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Contributors
About the authors
Rohit Tamma is a security program manager currently working with Microsoft. With over 8 years of experience in the field of security, his background spans management and technical consulting roles in the areas of application and cloud security, mobile security, penetration testing, and security training. Rohit has also coauthored couple of books, such as Practical Mobile Forensics and Learning Android Forensics, which explain various ways to perform forensics on the mobile platforms. You can contact him on Twitter at @RohitTamma.
Writing this book has been a great experience because it has taught me several things, which could not have been otherwise possible. I would like to dedicate this book to my parents for helping me in every possible way throughout my life.
Oleg Skulkin is a digital forensics "enthusional" (enthusiast and professional) from Russia with more than 6 years of experience, and is currently employed by Group-IB, one of the global leaders in preventing and investigating high-tech crimes and online fraud. He holds a number of certifications, including GCFA, MCFE, and ACE. Oleg is a coauthor of Windows Forensics Cookbook, and you can find his articles about different aspects of digital forensics both in Russian and foreign magazines. Finally, he is a very active blogger, and he updates the Cyber Forensicator blog daily.
I would like to thank my mom and wife for their support and understanding, my friend, Igor Mikhaylov, and my teammates from Group-IB Digital Forensics Lab: Valeriy Baulin, Sergey Nikitin, Vitaliy Trifonov, Roman Rezvuhin, Artem Artemov, Alexander Ivanov, Alexander Simonyan, Alexey Kashtanov, Pavel Zevahin, Vladimir Martyshin, Nikita Panov, Anastasiya Barinova, and Vesta Matveeva.
Heather Mahalik is the director of forensic engineering with ManTech CARD, where she leads the forensic effort focusing on mobile and digital exploitation. She is a senior instructor and author for the SANS Institute, and she is also the course leader for the FOR585 Advanced Smartphone Forensics course. With over 15 years of experience in digital forensics, she continues to thrive on smartphone investigations, digital forensics, forensic course development and instruction, and research on application analysis and smartphone forensics.
Satish Bommisetty is a security analyst working for a Fortune 500 company. His primary areas of interest include iOS forensics, iOS application security, and web application security. He has presented at international conferences, such as ClubHACK and C0C0n. He is also one of the core members of the Hyderabad OWASP chapter. He has identified and disclosed vulnerabilities within the websites of Google, Facebook, Yandex, PayPal, Yahoo!, AT&T, and more, and they are listed in their hall of fame.
About the reviewer
Igor Mikhaylov has been working as a forensics expert for 21 years. During this time, he has attended a lot of seminars and training classes in top forensic companies and forensic departments of government organizations. He has experience and skills in cellphones forensics, chip-off forensics, malware forensics, and other fields. He has worked on several thousand forensic cases.
He is the reviewer of Windows Forensics Cookbook by Oleg Skulkin and Scar de Courcier, Packt Publishing, 2017.
He is the author of Mobile Forensics Cookbook, Packt Publishing, 2017.
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