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Methodology for Digital Forensic Investigation of iCloud

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Growth in cloud services is surging around the world as cloud computing rapidly outstrips the projected growth rate for traditional IT products. Cloud service has characteristics that the data is synchronized in real time and could be approached from multiple devices. If the device is connected over network, it could be changed due to syncing service of data. One of the cloud syncing service is iCloud provided from Apple Corporation. Cloud syncing service provides various conveniences to users, but it is difficult to examine by investigators. For example, a suspect could use other devices to modify or delete the data related with the case through cloud storage service. To prevent this situation, this paper proposes new procedure for investigating and analyzing the data of iCloud.

Keywords

  • Digital forensics
  • Cloud syncing service
  • Cloud service
  • iCloud
  • Windows system
  • Mac system
  • iPhone
  • iPod

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  1. Center for Information Security Technologies (CIST), Korea University, Anam-Dong, Seongbuk-Gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea

    Jeehee Lee, Hyunji Chung & Sangjin Lee

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology(SeoulTech), Seoul, Republic of Korea

    Changhoon Lee

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  1. SeoulTech, Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul University Science & Technology, Gongreung 2-dong 172, Seoul, 139-743, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Jong Hyuk (James) Park

  2. , Division of e-Business, Kyungnam University, Changwon, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Jongsung Kim

  3. , Department of Information Security, Huazhong University of Science and Techn, Luoyu Road 1037, Wuhan, 430074, China, People's Republic

    Deqing Zou

  4. , Division of Computer Engineering, Mokwon University, 800 Doan-dong, Seo-gu, Daejeon, 302-729, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Yang Sun Lee

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Lee, J., Chung, H., Lee, C., Lee, S. (2012). Methodology for Digital Forensic Investigation of iCloud. In: Park, J., Kim, J., Zou, D., Lee, Y. (eds) Information Technology Convergence, Secure and Trust Computing, and Data Management. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 180. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5083-8_25

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