Systematic Evaluation of Forensic Data Acquisition using Smartphone Local Backup

arXiv:2404.12808v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Due to the increasing security standards of modern smartphones, forensic data acquisition from such devices is a growing challenge. One rather generic way to access data on smartphones in practice is to use the local backup mechanism offered by the mobile operating systems. We study the suitability of such mechanisms for forensic data acquisition by performing a thorough evaluation of iOS's and Android's local backup mechanisms on two mobile devices. Based on a systematic and …

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