FORENSICS

PDA and Cell Phone Forensics

PDA and Cell Phone Forensics

Introduction

The cell has become the mass medium par excellence thanks to its portability, low cost services and rates. This explosion of technology that does not let up, we are surprised by the variety of sophisticated equipment and dizzying frequency with which models left in the obsolescence of previous models. New services such as streaming digital video, photography, GPS, Wi-Fi, ability to execute a variety of applications , have made ??this medium, a device that is used today by millions of people around the world for more than just make a call.

But as we all know, technology is neither good nor bad, just depends on what we give, so that this wonderful invention that has given us great satisfaction, has also been useful for making a variety of crimes. Among the best known, the cloning of the SIM card, the interception of messages in transaction banking, kidnapping, drug trafficking, sharing images of pedophilia, extortion and so on (Brinson & Robinson, 2006).

Discussion

The use of these devices to commit different crimes, different governments have led to extreme measures, and indeed highly controversial, such as Mexico and Peru enacted a law to register the phones and their users, possibly opening the door to major crimes such as kidnapping of their owners for the time necessary to commit the crime more profitable for criminals.

Companies and organizations security state, meet its efforts to develop new techniques of forensic analysis, this time targeting the devices phones, including cell phones. Although it is true, the difficulty of these techniques to be successful in the criminal investigation cannot be seen as a means to slow the progress as a tool, the cell has been used. Among the most important features of this software is the wide variety of equipment that supports more than 1550 models and a pack of drivers (300 Mb) can be downloaded at this link (Mislan, 2008).

Mobile Phone Forensic Tool

The data looked after the mobile phone forensic software are a freeware utility that safely brings all the detailed information of windows based mobile phone including SMS text (saved in inbox, outbox, draft), phonebook contact numbers, name mobile manufacturer, model number, mobile, battery status, signal quality and similar types of data from your SIM card and mobile phone. The tool phone inspector freeware Cell readily displayed all data related mobile / SIM including IMEI number, SIM IMSI number, phone book entries with their name and number, information about text messages (including state , number, date / time, text content, capacity SMS, SIM and phone memory) of mobile phone based operating system (Lim, 2008).

The forensic analysis of mobile devices has, to the purpose, under defined conditions existing digital traces and with approved methods. Compared with the forensic examination of a computer in the analysis of mobile devices considered relatively small amounts of data. However, arising from the diversity and life of the proprietary operating systems, devices and complex challenges. Current mobile phones offer features such as instant messaging, Web access via HTTP / WAP, e-mail access via POP3 / IMAP / Exchange / Lotus Notes, GPS capabilities ...