Date of Award
Summer 8-2013
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.S.
Degree Program
Computer Science
Department
Computer Science
Major Professor
Golden G. Richard III
Second Advisor
Shengru Tu
Third Advisor
Adlai DePano
Abstract
Android forensics has evolved over time offering significant opportunities and exciting challenges. On one hand, being an open source platform Android is giving developers the freedom to contribute to the rapid growth of the Android market whereas on the other hand Android users may not be aware of the security and privacy implications of installing these applications on their phones. Users may assume that a password-locked device protects their personal information, but applications may retain private information on devices, in ways that users might not anticipate. In this thesis we will be concentrating on one such application called 'WhatsApp', a popular social networking application. We will be forming an outline on how forensic investigators can extract useful information from WhatsApp and from similar applications installed on an Android platform. Our area of focus is extraction and analysis of application user data from non-volatile external storage and the volatile memory (RAM) of an Android device.
Recommended Citation
Thakur, Neha S., "Forensic Analysis of WhatsApp on Android Smartphones" (2013). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 1706.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1706
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