International Journal of Engineering Research
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 5

An Analysis of WhatsApp Forensics in Android Smartphones

  • Author:
  • Mr. Shubham Sahu
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 349 to 350

Pursuing Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science & Engineering | Founder-Chhattisgarh InfoSec Society (NGO). cybersecurityguru@gmail.com

Online published on 8 November, 2017.

Abstract

WhatsApp is mobile application which allows exchange of messages, videos, audio's and images via Smartphone. The increased use of IM on Android phones has turned to be goldmine for mobile and computer forensic investigators. This paper focuses on conducting forensic data analysis by extracting useful information from WhatsApp and from similar applications installed on Android platform.

Keywords

WhatsApp, Android Forensics, WhatsApp Security, Data Security