1 Introduction to the World of Mobile Device Forensics

In 2014, Cisco’s Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update indicated that the number of mobile devices in use exceeded the world’s population. In February 2017, the same study by Cisco revealed that “mobile devices and connections in 2016 grew to 8 billion.” In the mobile world, wearables are the latest and most easily noticeable digital devices. Cisco reported that there were 325 million wearable devices in use globally, with a subset (11 million) having a cellular connection as well. It should come as no surprise that mobile device sales have outpaced PC sales three-to-one since 2003, as reported in a study conducted by the National Institute of Standards ...

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