Mobile Forensics: the roadblocks ahead, proposed solutions using Protocol Filtering and SIM programming
Rizwan Raheem Ahmed, Rajiv V. Dharaskar · 2009
From student to business worker, the popularity and ubiquity of mobile devices is exploding. As these devices saturate modern culture, they continue to grow in functionality. Acquiring information from a mobile phone is now an important issue in many criminal investigations. Mobile phones can contain large amounts of information which can be of use in an investigation. These include typical mobile device data including SMS, phone records, images, audio, video, calendar and diary entries. As the difference between a PDA and a mobile phone is now blurred, the data that can reside on a mobile phone is somewhat endless.In this paper, we try to identify factors that pose as major roadblocks for mobile forensics and describes techniques to address two resulting problems in particular: the limited coverage of available phone models by forensic tools, and the inadequate means for validating the correct functioning of forensic tools