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On the Availability of Anti-Forensic Tools for Smartphones
Ioana Sporea, Benjamin Aziz, Zac McIntyre
Pages - 58 - 64     |    Revised - 15-11-2012     |    Published - 31-12-2012
Volume - 6   Issue - 4    |    Publication Date - December 2012  Table of Contents
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KEYWORDS
Mobile Computing, Anti-forensics, Cryptography, Steganography
ABSTRACT
The existence of anti-forensic tools in the context of computing systems is one of the main challenges for forensics investigators in achieving reliable evidence recovery and consequently uncovering crime facts. This is in particular more challenging in emerging smartphone technologies, since data is of highly mobile and volatile nature. In the current paper, we present a brief study of several anti-forensic applications available for smartphones. The applications are ready to use, most of them free, and require no expert technical knowledge. Moreover, these have been proved to be very effective when tested with two commercial forensic tools.
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Mr. Ioana Sporea
- United Kingdom
Dr. Benjamin Aziz
University of Portsmouth - United Kingdom
benjamin.aziz@port.ac.uk
Mr. Zac McIntyre
- United Kingdom


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