Overview
With the increasing prevalence of mobile devices, forensic evidence extracted from mobile devices can be an invaluable source of evidence for investigators in both civil and criminal prosecution. The presence of Smartphones and Tablet devices resulted in a new specialisation for the forensic community creating a large number of cases … For more content click the Read More button below.
In this topic, students will work in a holistic and proactive manner to investigate cyber-malicious events through developing skills in using analytical and forensic tools to identify and extract artefacts from mobile devices. Students will conduct examinations on a mobile device by identifying indicators of potential evidence that can be present on the device and isolating and then extracting these for deeper analysis. They will also learn vehicle and drone forensics and techniques relating to data recovery of digital evidence from mobile devices.
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Aims
At the completion of this topic, students will be in a position to understand and analyse forensic information taken from a range of mobile devices including smart Phones, PDAs, IoT devices, GPS devices and Tablets. Students will also be able to undertake workplace investigations. Student will also be introduced to wireless security and attacks, wireless track and investigation, mobile device data and digital evidence recovery.
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