About the Authors

Dr. Michael Spreitzenbarth holds a degree of doctor of engineering in IT security from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and is a CISSP as well as a GMOB. He has been an IT security consultant at a worldwide operating CERT for more than three years and has worked as a freelancer in the field of mobile phone forensics, malware analysis, and IT security consultancy for more than six years. Since the last four years, he has been giving talks and lectures in the fields of forensics and mobile security at various universities and in the private sector.

I would like to thank everyone who has encouraged me while writing this book, especially my wife for her great support. I would also like to thank all the authors of the used open source tools— without your help, this book wouldn't have been possible.

Dr. Johann Uhrmann holds a degree in computer science from the University of Applied Sciences Landshut and a doctor of engineering from the University of the German Federal Armed Forces. He has more than ten years of experience in software development, which includes working for start-ups, institutional research, and corporate environment. Johann has several years of experience in incident handling and IT governance, focusing on Linux and Cloud environments.

First of all, I would like to thank my wife, Daniela, for her moral support and willingness to give up on some family time while I was writing. I also would like to thank my coauthor and colleague, Dr. Michael Spreitzenbarth, for talking me into writing this book and handling a great deal of the organizational overhead of such a project. Furthermore, the great people working on all the open source software projects that we used and mentioned in this book deserve credit. You are the guys who keep the IT world spinning.

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