Cell Phone Backups
One of the items I mentioned briefly last week that I’m going to go delve a little deeper into today, is cell phone backups. Cell Phone backups are very important, especially when you’re analyzing a computer and locate cell phone backups. There have been a good number of cases that I’ve worked on where the computers involved have backups of either Blackberry or Apple iOS devices. With how much smart phones are used nowadays, locating a backup on a computer you’re investigating can be huge, especially when you don’t have access to the individual’s phone. For today’s blog, I’m going to focus on cell phone backups supported by Cellebrite Mobile Forensics since that is the main tool in our forensic arsenal. At the moment, Cellebrite only supports the following device backups: Google’s Android OS, RIM’s Blackberry and Apple’s iOS devices. I’ll go over each of these backup options and what goes along with them.