Skip to Main Content
Learning Android Forensics
book

Learning Android Forensics

by Rohit Tamma, Donnie Tindall
April 2015
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
322 pages
7h 11m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Learning Android Forensics

Android SIM card extractions

Traditionally, SIM cards were used for transferring data between devices. In the past, SIM cards were used to store many different types of data, such as:

  • User data
    • Contacts
    • SMS messages
    • Dialed calls
  • Network data
    • Integrated Circuit Card Identifier (ICCID): Serial number of the SIM
    • International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI): Identifier that ties the SIM to a specific user account
    • MSISDN: Phone number assigned to the SIM
    • Location Area Identity (LAI): Identifies the cell that a user is in
    • Authentication Key (Ki): Used to authenticate to the mobile network
    • Various other network-specific information

With the rise in capacity of device storage, SD cards, and cloud backups, the necessity for storing data on a SIM card has decreased. ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Android Forensics

Android Forensics

Andrew Hoog
Learning Android Forensics - Second Edition

Learning Android Forensics - Second Edition

Oleg Skulkin, Donnie Tindall, Rohit Tamma
Hacking Android

Hacking Android

Mohammed A. Imran, Srinivasa Rao Kotipalli

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781782174578