The spy in your pocket: Smartphones and geo-location data

Authors

Krishnun Sansurooah, Security Research Institute, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Bradley Keane, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publisher

SRI Security Research Institute, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia

Abstract

The integration of Global Positioning Systems and Smartphones has seen the significance of location based services rise. Geo-location data could prove to be an invaluable source of evidence in a forensic investigation. An attempt to extract geo-location data from an iPhone4s and Huawei Ascend G526 in a forensically sound manner revealed significant geo-location data embedded within geo-tags within photos taken on the devices. Other limited evidence was located on the devices.

Comments

13th Australian Digital Forensics Conference, held from the 30 November – 2 December, 2015 (pp. 95-103), Edith Cowan University Joondalup Campus, Perth, Western Australia.

DOI

10.4225/75/57b3fb68fb88e