• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.1057-1067
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• 2013

The market share of smartphones has been increasing more and more at the recent mobile market and smart devices and applications that are based on a variety of operating systems has been released. Given this reality, the importance of smart devices analysis is coming to the fore and the most important thing is to minimize data corruption when extracting data from the device in order to analyze user behavior. In this paper, we compare and analyze the area-specific changes that are the file system of collected image after obtaining root privileges on the Android OS and iOS based devices, and then propose the most efficient method to obtain root privileges.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.167-175
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• 2011

As recent emergence of smart phones, mobile services are growing in various forms. Many companies released smart phones of various operating systems such as Window Mobile, Android and iOS. Currently, most popular smart phone operating systems are Android and iOS. Due to the various features of these smart phone, they can be employed to various crimes. From the point of view of digital forensics, this paper analyzes the evidence data which needs to be collected in the smart phone, and implements the evidence analysis tool. By using this tool, it can reduce the time and effort for collecting and analyzing the evidence of the smart phone.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.1557-1569
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• 2017

In recent times, the Internet of Things (IoT) has rapidly emerged as one of the most influential information and communication technologies (ICT). The various constituents of the IoT together offer novel technological opportunities by facilitating the so-called "hyper-connected world." The fundamental tasks that need to be performed to provide such a function involve the transceiving, storing, and analyzing of digital data. However, it is challenging to handle voluminous data with IoT devices because such devices generally lack sufficient computational capability. In this study, we examine the IoT from the perspective of security and digital forensics. SQLite is a light-weight database management system (DBMS) used in many IoT applications that stores private information. This information can be used in digital forensics as evidence. However, it is difficult to obtain critical evidence from IoT devices because the digital data stored in these devices is frequently deleted or updated. To address this issue, we propose Schema Pattern-based Recovery (SPaRe), an SQLite recovery scheme that leverages the pattern of a database schema. In particular, SPaRe exhaustively explores an SQLite database file and identifies all schematic patterns of a database record. We implemented SPaRe on an iPhone 6 running iOS 7 in order to test its performance. The results confirmed that SPaRe recovers an SQLite record at a high recovery rate.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.827-839
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• 2012

A cell phone is very close to the user and therefore should be considered in digital forensic investigation. Recently, the proportion of smartphone owners is increasing dramatically. Unlike the feature phone, users can utilize various mobile application in smartphone because it has high-performance operating system (e.g., Android, iOS). As acquisition and analysis of user data in smartphone are more important in digital forensic purposes, smartphone forensics has been studied actively. There are two way to do smartphone forensics. The first way is to extract user's data using the backup and debugging function of smartphones. The second way is to get root permission, and acquire the image of flash memory. And then, it is possible to reconstruct the filesystem, such as YAFFS, EXT, RFS, HFS+ and analyze it. However, this methods are not suitable to recovery and analyze deleted data from smartphones. This paper introduces analysis techniques for fragmented flash memory pages in smartphones. Especially, this paper demonstrates analysis techniques on the image that reconstruction of filesystem is impossible because the spare area of flash memory pages does not exist and the pages in unallocated area of filesystem.