Sefiyat Oyiza Ohida

Work place: African University of Science and Technology, Nigeria

E-mail: ohidasefiyat@gmail.com

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Research Interests: Applied computer science, Computational Science and Engineering, Computer systems and computational processes, Theoretical Computer Science

Biography

Sefiyat Oyiza Ohida is currently undertaking a Masters degree in Computer Science at the African University of Science and Technology, Nigeria. She holds a B.Tech degree in Computer Science (Cyber Security).

Author Articles
Comparative Evaluation of Mobile Forensic Tools

By Oluwafemi Osho Sefiyat Oyiza Ohida

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijitcs.2016.01.09, Pub. Date: 8 Jan. 2016

Mobile technology, over the years, has improved tremendously in sophistication and functionality. Today, there are mobile phones, known as smartphones, that can perform virtually most functions associated with personal computers. This has translated to increase in the adoption of mobile technology. Consequently, there has been an increase in the number of attacks against and with the aid of this technology. Mobile phones will often contain data that are needed as evidence in a court of law. And, therefore, the need to be able to acquire and present this data in an admissible form cannot be overemphasized. This requires the right forensic tools. This is the focus of this study. We evaluated the ability of four forensic tools to extract data, with emphasis on deleted data, from Android phones. Our results show that AccessData FTK Imager and EnCase performed better than MOBILedit Forensic and Oxygen Forensic Suite at acquiring deleted data. The conclusion is that, finding a forensic tool or toolkit that is virtually applicable across all mobile device platforms and operating systems is currently infeasible.

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