

The need for investigation of the aforementioned incidents resulted in the creation of the Mobile Forensics (MF) discipline. However, these devices are more prone to theft, to compromising or to exploitation for attacks and other malicious activity, mainly due to their portability and size. This has allowed devices such as smartphone and tablets to perform increasingly complex tasks, up to the point of efficiently replacing traditional options such as desktop computers and notebooks. Contemporary mobile devices are the result of an evolution process where computational and networking capabilities have been continuously pushed so as to keep pace with the constantly growing workload requirements.
