An overview and analysis of PDA forensic tools

An Analysis of the Integrity of Palm Images Acquired with PDD

With the growth of Personal Digital Assistants (PDA), pocket-sized digital music players and smart phones the need for digital forensic tools that can acquire and analyse these devices has also been growing. PDD is a utility designed to acquire images of the memory of Palm OS based PDAs for forensic analysis. The use of volatile Random Access Memory (RAM) by Palm PDAs can have an effect on fore...

Optimization of a Dispersive Liquid-Liquid Microextration Method for Analysis of Chlorpyrifos in Urine Using the Chemometrics Method

Aims: The use of simple, low cost, high -efficiency extraction methods for sample preparation in the forensic toxicology has been considered. Nowadays, the chemometrics technique can be used to determine the influencing factors on the response to optimize extraction methods. The aim of this study was to design and optimize a dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction (DLLME) method for extraction...

An Overview of Hydrogen Sulfide Suicides Based on Police Data in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan

Forensic Image Analysis of Familiar-based iPAQ

One of the PDA forensic issues is the difficulty in maintaining image integrity as two consecutive acquisitions on most PDA platforms could produce different images. JFFS2 used in certain Linux PDA further complicate the forensic process as compression is implemented in this file system. Currently there is not specific tool that can analyse this file system. This paper analyse the integrity of ...

An overview and examination of digital PDA devices under forensics toolkits

Personal Digital Assistants most commonly known as PDAs are becoming more and more fashionable and affordable in the working environment. With the advent and rapidly increasing technology these handled devices are now targeted by a lot of person with criminal intentions. But unfortunately crime does not choose its technology and nowadays those ultra light handhelds are getting more and more inv...