Advances of mobile forensic procedures in Firefox OS

The advancement of smartphone technology has attracted many companies in developing mobile operating system (OS). Mozilla Corporation recently released Linux-based open source mobile OS, named Firefox OS. The emergence of Firefox OS has created new challenges, concentrations and opportunities for di...

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Main Authors: Yusoff, Mohd Najwadi, Mahmod, Ramlan, Dehghantanha, Ali, Abdullah @ Selimun, Mohd Taufik
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communications 2014
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/36337/1/Advances%20of%20mobile%20forensic%20procedures%20in%20Firefox%20OS.pdf
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/36337/
http://sdiwc.net/digital-library/advances-of-mobile-forensic-procedures-in-firefox-os
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Summary:The advancement of smartphone technology has attracted many companies in developing mobile operating system (OS). Mozilla Corporation recently released Linux-based open source mobile OS, named Firefox OS. The emergence of Firefox OS has created new challenges, concentrations and opportunities for digital investigators. In general, Firefox OS is designed to allow smartphones to communicate directly with HTML5 applications using JavaScript and newly introduced WebAPI. However, the used of JavaScript in HTML5 applications and solely no OS restriction might lead to security issues and potential exploits. Therefore, forensic analysis for Firefox OS is urgently needed in order to investigate any criminal intentions. This paper will present an overview and methodology of mobile forensic procedures in forensically sound manner for Firefox OS.