Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles: Mobile Phone Forensics: Challenges, Analysis and Tools Classification

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"Mobile Phone Forensics: Challenges, Analysis and Tools Classification"
by Amjad Zareen, Shamim Baig
in the Proceedings of the 2010 International Workshop on Systematic Approaches to Digital Forensic Engineering, May 2010, pp. 47-55
After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE's Publication Principles.

This paper contains significant portions of original text from the paper cited below. The original text was copied without attribution (including appropriate references to the original author(s) and/or paper title) and without permission.

Due to the nature of this violation, reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper, and future references should be made to the following article:

"Cell Phone and GPS Forensic Tool Classification System"
by Sam Brothers
in a presentation to Digital Forensics,
http://www.mobileforensicsworld.org/2009/presentations/MFW2009_BROTHERS_CellPhoneandGPSForensicToolClassificationSystem.pdf, May 2009


Mobile phones and other handheld devices are everywhere now a day. Cell phones and cellular devices can be involved in a crime or other incident. Digital forensic specialists will require specialized tools for forensics examination of mobile phones for proper recovery and speedy analysis of data present on mobile phones. Based on the various extraction methods different levels of analysis can be logically grouped for evidence acquisition from mobile phones. Based on these levels (Manual, Logical, Hex-Dump, Chip-Off and Micro Read) a pyramid of forensic tools available in international market can be sketched. Scope of this paper is to excavate into challenges associated while carrying forensic analysis of mobile phones, elaborate various analysis techniques and depict a pyramid of forensic techniques and tools.