Amazon Kindle Fire HD forensics

Author First name, Last name, Institution

Asif Iqbal, Athena Labs
Hanan Alobaidli, Athena Labs
Andrew Marrington, Zayed University
Ibrahim Baggili, University of New Haven

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Source of Publication

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST

Publication Date

1-1-2014

Abstract

© Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 2014. This research presents two developed approaches for the forensic acquisition of an Amazon Kindle Fire HD. It describes the forensic acquisition and analysis of the Amazon Kindle Fire HD device. Two developed methods of acquisition are presented; one requiring a special cable to reflash the boot partition of the device with a forensic acquisition environment (Method A), and the other exploiting a vulnerability in the device’s Android operating system (Method B). A case study is then presented showing the various digital evidence that can be extracted from the device. The results indicate that Method A is more favorable because it utilizes a general methodology that does not exploit a vulnerability that could potentially be patched by Amazon in future software updates.

DOI Link

10.1007/978-3-319-14289-0_4

ISBN

9783319142883

ISSN

1867-8211

Publisher

Springer Verlag

Volume

132

First Page

39

Last Page

50

Disciplines

Computer Sciences

Keywords

Acquisition, Amazon Kindle Fire HD, Analysis, Android forensics, Digital, Forensic flashing, Forensics

Scopus ID

84943253442

Recommended Citation

Iqbal, Asif; Alobaidli, Hanan; Marrington, Andrew; and Baggili, Ibrahim, "Amazon Kindle Fire HD forensics" (2014). All Works. 399.
https://zuscholars.zu.ac.ae/works/399

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

no