IMPORTANCE OF FORENSICS OF MOBILE PHONES AS A TYPE OF DIGITAL FORENSICS IN THE PROCESS OF EVIDENCE

Abstract

The fact is that mobile phones are increasingly replacing computers with features such as Internet access, emailing, access to social networks. With the advent of smartphones, the role of computers in information communication networks is reduced. Modern phones take on the role of participants in the cyberspace, both the potential victim and the object of protection, and the possible means of cyber-attacks. With these facts, the field of evidence moves from tangible things into an intangible and hard-to-prove field. Mobile phones become a source of data storage, which in addition to pointing to the commission of a criminal offense, performing and detecting communications and location of the phone users. With the help of them, we obtain a further complete picture of the planning and the place where the crime was committed. Since the data in the phone's memory is not completely erased with their dedicated removal, their obtaining is possible with the help of forensic tools specifically for this purpose. Digital Forensics that relates to computer forensics is necessary to complete with specialized forensic tools for smartphones. Therefore, the tendency is to apply and improve the forensics of mobile devices as a type of digital forensics and the development of forensic tools that will be specialized for these devices.