Dogan Ibrahim

Gsm Mobile Phones in Forensic Investigations Dogan Ibrahim

Mobile phones are currently used by many millions of people around the world. Mobile phones have become one of the most successful inventions in the 20th century. They were invented to be devices to enable users to have communication wherever and whenever they wanted. But in the last decade with the addition of mobile phone tools such as MMS , camera, video, voice recording, music playing, location maps, internet access and so on has made a revolution in the mobile phone market. This book is about the mobile phone forensics. The book starts by describing briefly the history of the GSM mobile phones and how they operate. Then the general mobile phone forensic guidelines are given. The book describes how evidence can be extracted from the phone itself, and from the SIM card module. Various commercially available mobile phone tools have been described. Finally, the book describes briefly the law regarding mobile phones. The book should be useful to students and to professional people engaged in extracting data from mobile phones.