Work place: University of Mauritius Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Reduit, Mauritius
E-mail: v.seetohul@uom.ac.mu
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Research Interests: Computer systems and computational processes, Computer Architecture and Organization, Data Structures and Algorithms
Biography
Vidasha. Ramnarain-Seetohul has completed her BSc (Hons) in Information Systems in 2003 and MSc (Hons) in Information and Communication Technologies in 2006. Presently she is working as LECTURER at the University Of Mauritius in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering. Her research interests are computer and mobile forensics, networking and cloud computing.
By Sweta Deana Bye. Dhondoo Vidasha. Ramnarain-Seetohul Razvi. Doomun
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijcnis.2014.09.04, Pub. Date: 8 Aug. 2014
Mobile forensics deals with evidence from mobile devices. Data recovered from the mobile devices are helpful in investigation to solve criminal cases. It is crucial to preserve the integrity of these data. According to research carried out [1], it has been noted that not all data extracted from mobile phones have discrepancies in hash values during integrity verification. It has been reported that only the Multimedia Messaging Service message type showed a variation in hash values when performing data extraction. The main objective in this work is to study the variance in the content of the graphic files transferred between mobile phones via Bluetooth or MMS. We also determine the causes of such variations, if any, while checking the graphics file integrity. Different parameters including distance and file format have been varied and a series of test were conducted using: mobile sets of same make same model, same make different model and different make different model on different graphic file formats of different sizes. Results obtained confirmed that there was no alteration of graphic files during Bluetooth transmission. However, while transmitting the graphic files through Multimedia Messaging Service, results showed notable alteration level for graphic files of certain file format and size.
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