Advances of mobile forensic procedures in Firefox OS

Yusoff, MN; Mahmod, R; Dehghantanha, A; Abdullah, MT

Abstract

The advancement of smartphone technology has
attracted many companies in developing mobile
operating system (OS). Mozilla Corporation recently
released Linux-based open source mobile OS, named
Firefox OS. The emergence of Firefox OS has created
new challenges, concentrations and opportunities for
digital investigators. In general, Firefox OS is designed
to allow smartphones to communicate directly with
HTML5 applications using JavaScript and newly
introduced WebAPI. However, the used of JavaScript
in HTML5 applications and solely no OS restriction
might lead to security issues and potential exploits.
Therefore, forensic analysis for Firefox OS is urgently
needed in order to investigate any criminal intentions.
This paper will present an overview and methodology
of mobile forensic procedures in forensically sound
manner for Firefox OS.

Citation

Yusoff, M., Mahmod, R., Dehghantanha, A., & Abdullah, M. (2014). Advances of mobile forensic procedures in Firefox OS. International Journal of Cyber-Security and Digital Forensics, 3(4), 183-199. https://doi.org/10.17781/P001338

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2014
• Deposit Date: Feb 2, 2015
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 5, 2016
• Journal: International Journal of Cyber-Security and Digital Forensics (IJCSDF)
• Print ISSN: 2305-0012
• Publisher: Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 183-199
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.17781/P001338
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.17781/P001338
• Related Public URLs: http://sdiwc.net/security-journal/
• Additional Information: Funders : University Putra Malaysia