Mobile Phone Security and Forensics: A Practical Approach

✍ Scribed by Iosif I. Androulidakis (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 113
• Series: SpringerBriefs in electrical and computer engineering
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Mobile Phone Security and Forensics provides both theoretical and practical background of security and forensics for mobile phones. The author discusses confidentiality, integrity, and availability threats in mobile telephones to provide background for the rest of the book. Security and secrets of mobile phones are discussed including software and hardware interception, fraud and other malicious techniques used “against” users. The purpose of this book is to raise user awareness in regards to security and privacy threats present in the use of mobile phones while readers will also learn where forensics data reside in the mobile phone and the network and how to conduct a relevant analysis.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability Threats in Mobile Phones....Pages 1-11
A Multinational Survey on Users’ Practices, Perceptions, and Awareness Regarding Mobile Phone Security....Pages 13-23
Voice, SMS, and Identification Data Interception in GSM....Pages 25-38
Software and Hardware Mobile Phone Tricks....Pages 39-62
SMS Security Issues....Pages 63-74
Mobile Phone Forensics....Pages 75-99
Conclusion....Pages 101-103
Back Matter....Pages 105-105

✦ Subjects

Communications Engineering, Networks;Systems and Data Security;Security Science and Technology;Forensic Science