Jonathan Zdziarski the computer security expert who alerted everyone to the existence of the iPhone Kill Switch has published a new O’Reilly book, iPhone Forensics
In this live webcast, iPhone hacker and data forensics expert Jonathan Zdziarski guides you through the steps used by law enforcement agencies to bypass the iPhone 3G’s passcode lock by creating a custom firmware bundle. Author of the upcoming book, iPhone Forensics, Jonathan has devoted much of his talent supporting law enforcement personnel with his development of a forensics toolkit that allows them to recover, process, and remove sensitive data stored on the iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPod Touch. This live presentation is aimed towards law enforcement and anyone else who has a need to access the not-so-readily available data on an iPhone.
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This book seems like it will be a must read for any iPhone hacker worth their salt.
The first edition of iPhone Forensics is now in production, with an “in-stock” date of 9/12. The final copy is also now available to read online, complete with foreword by Cap’n Crunch (John Draper). Book description:
With iPhone use increasing in business networks, IT and security professionals face a serious challenge: these devices store an enormous amount of information. If your staff conducts business with an iPhone, you need to know how to recover and analyze sensitive data. iPhone Forensics supplies the knowledge necessary to conduct complete and highly specialized forensic analysis of the iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPod Touch. This book will show you how to:
- Break v1.x and v2.x pascode-protected iPhones (including 3G) to gain access to the device
- Interrupt the iPhone 3G’s “secure wipe” process
- Conduct data recovery of a v1.x and v2.x iPhone/iPhone 3G user disk partition, and preserve and recover the entire raw disk image
- Recover deleted voicemail, images, email, and other personal data, using data carving techniques specialized for the iPhone
- Perform e-discovery of Google map lookups, typing cache, GPS fixes, geotags, and other data stored on the live file system
- Extract contact information and extended call history from the iPhone’s database
- Employ different recovery strategies based on case needs
And more. iPhone Forensics includes techniques used by more than 200 local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies worldwide, and is a must-have for any agency, corporate compliance, or disaster recovery plan.
Whoa, that’s pretty scary stuff
Leif Erikson, WTF does this Johnathan person think he’s doing??!!!!!!
“Hmm… I’m a bit bored. I know, lets just show the WHOLE WORLD how to bypass the iPhone’s Passcode security for a short-term ‘laugh’. Who cares if we’re putting the data on EVERY iPhone ever manufactured at risk which could ruin many people’s lives due to identity theft.”
What a stupid narrow-minded idiot!!! This kind of information should ONLY be known and kept WITHIN law enforcement organisations for proper moral use. Just think what could happen to people who have and might in the future be victims of getting their iPhone pick-pocketed.
Once everyone learns about these ‘workaround’ methods, Apple are going to have to drastically re-think a good way of protecting everyone’s data once again.
I am buying a copy
I will picking one up too!
THIS KIND OF INFORMATION SHOULD NOT BE PUBLIC!!!
In case all you people who say this shouldnt be open to public, if you havent noticed you can go on amazon and buy books that teach you how to hack into computers and do worse stuff. this book is meant to educate people like me, in the digital forensics field, how to do forensics on new things. i personally own an iphone and this doesnt scare me, if you dont like this being public then maybe you shouldnt buy an iphone. public information like this is good for because now i will be better at my job.