DIGITAL FORENSICS AND INVESTIGATION SERVICES

Mobile Forensics

It took radio broadcasters 38 years to reach an audience of 50 million, television 13 years, and the Internet just 4 years. In 2010 there were over 5 billion mobile phones users globally out of a global population of 6.909 billion people!

Cell phone usage in South Africa:

• 22% of South African adults have a land line at home, and 41%, have access to a cell phone.
• A little over 70% of cell phone users do not have a land line at home.
• There are 10.2 million adults who own cell phones in South Africa (33%). There are only 5.3 million computer users in the country.
• Gauteng has the highest penetration of cell phones, at 48% of adults. Next is the Western Cape with 43%, while the lowest penetration is the Eastern Cape, at 24%.
• The IPad sold 4.5 million units in its first 80 days, the IPhone is selling at approximately 20 million units per quarter.

Mobile devices have become the device of this century, and most probably that of the next as well. It has become such a part of our lives that if you forget your phone at home, you will feel naked, will turn back to fetch it or face a whole day of communication depravation. Chances are good that we are now commenting more on getting away on a holiday to get away from our cell phones than getting away from work!

Not only have mobile devices become a part of our personal lives, but also an integral part of our business life. Mobile phones are used to read e-mail, store data, do presentation, backup files, update social media etc. As such it has become a device that cannot be ignored by businesses. Mobile phones have become one of the preferred devices by fraudsters, syndicates and criminals to communicate, steal data, give instruction etc.

We are seeing that syndicates are now targeting mobile phones to steal personal data instead of computers. It is therefore imperative to include mobile forensics in all forensic investigations. Cyanre are leading experts on mobile forensics and is able to investigate all types of mobile devices such as, but not limited to:

• Mobile Phones
• SIM cards
• SD cards
• Micro SD card
• Ipads
• Ipods
• PDAs
• GPSs
• Tablets

We can extract both active and deleted data from these mobile devices including:

• Call Logs
• Contact Lists
• Phone Details
• Text Messages
• Photos, Movie Clips, Audio Files, and Data Files
• SIM Location Information
• Location where images were taken
• Route information