Mobile Forensics

Catalog description

This course covers areas of mobile forensics, which include topics from the legal and technical aspects of this discipline. Forensics tools will be utilized to examine flash drives, cell phones, PDA's, GPS devices and digital cameras. Recovered data will include call logs, address books, text messages, videos, Internet history and service provider information Fundamental topics include the differences between private and criminal investigations, issues regarding privacy, incident response policy, and the Fourth Amendment. The course will cover mobile phone networks, the network authentication process, differences between GSM and CDMA devices and how to extract information from a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards.