January 2018
Beginner to intermediate
402 pages
10h 6m
English
book
Practical Mobile Forensics - Third Edition
by Rohit Tamma, Oleg Skulkin, Heather Mahalik, Satish Bommisetty
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Apple Watch
Examining the Apple Watch is new and exciting. The good news is that the files found on the watch are similar, if not the same, as those found on the iPhone. We are going to see the data primarily existing in the SQLite database and plist files, and this is examined by creating or examining an iPhone backup file. Remember that an iPhone running iOS 8.2 or later is the only iOS device capable of being linked to an Apple Watch.
One unique aspect about the Apple Watch is that the data pertaining to the watch is stored in the mobile/Library/DeviceRegistry directory within the backup, which is shown in the following screenshot:
The ...