Abstract
Modern mobile phones store data in SIM cards, internal memory and external flash memory. With advanced functionality such as multimedia messaging becoming common, increasing amounts of information are now stored in internal memory. However, the forensic analysis of internal memory, including the recovery of deleted items, has been largely ignored. This paper presents two methods for imaging the internal memory of mobile phones. The methods are applied on several popular models to recover information, including deleted text messages.
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Willassen, S. (2006). Forensic Analysis of Mobile Phone Internal Memory. In: Pollitt, M., Shenoi, S. (eds) Advances in Digital Forensics. DigitalForensics 2005. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 194. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-31163-7_16
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