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                                                                                    <journal-title>Bilişim Teknolojileri Dergisi</journal-title>
            </journal-title-group>
                            <issn pub-type="ppub">1307-9697</issn>
                                        <issn pub-type="epub">2147-0715</issn>
                                                                                            <publisher>
                    <publisher-name>Gazi Üniversitesi</publisher-name>
                </publisher>
                    </journal-meta>
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                                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.17671/gazibtd.339802</article-id>
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                                            <subj-group  xml:lang="en">
                                                            <subject>Computer Software</subject>
                                                            <subject>Engineering</subject>
                                                    </subj-group>
                                            <subj-group  xml:lang="tr">
                                                            <subject>Bilgisayar Yazılımı</subject>
                                                            <subject>Mühendislik</subject>
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                                    </article-categories>
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                                    <trans-title>The Investigation of WhatsApp Application in Android Operating System related to Digital Forensics</trans-title>
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                                                                                                                                                                                                <article-title>Android İşletim Sisteminde Whatsapp Uygulamasının Adli Bilişim Açısından İncelenmesi</article-title>
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                                                    <contrib-group content-type="authors">
                                                                        <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Akbal</surname>
                                    <given-names>Erhan</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                            </contrib>
                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Doğan</surname>
                                    <given-names>Şengül</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                            </contrib>
                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Baloğlu</surname>
                                    <given-names>İbrahim</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                            </contrib>
                                                                                </contrib-group>
                        
                                        <pub-date pub-type="pub" iso-8601-date="20180430">
                    <day>04</day>
                    <month>30</month>
                    <year>2018</year>
                </pub-date>
                                        <volume>11</volume>
                                        <issue>2</issue>
                                        <fpage>147</fpage>
                                        <lpage>156</lpage>
                        
                        <history>
                                    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="20170925">
                        <day>09</day>
                        <month>25</month>
                        <year>2017</year>
                    </date>
                                                    <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="20180223">
                        <day>02</day>
                        <month>23</month>
                        <year>2018</year>
                    </date>
                            </history>
                                        <permissions>
                    <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2008, Bilişim Teknolojileri Dergisi</copyright-statement>
                    <copyright-year>2008</copyright-year>
                    <copyright-holder>Bilişim Teknolojileri Dergisi</copyright-holder>
                </permissions>
            
                                                                                                <trans-abstract xml:lang="en">
                            <p>Nowadays,the social media accounts used by many people have become the indispensablemeans of communication for people. WhatsApp, one of the most widely usedapplications, is now on the phone of many of the individuals who ownsmartphones. This application provides many advantages such as send secureunlimited messages, documents, audio, video, location on all smartphones withinternet usage. This commonly used application can contain a number ofevidences that can help with judicial processes. In this study, aninvestigation of the WhatsApp application with regards to digital forensics ispresented. A phone with Android operating system is examined as rooted andunrooted, and the data and locations available from the phone are shown.</p></trans-abstract>
                                                                                                                                    <abstract><p>Günümüzdepek çok kişinin sahip olduğu sosyal medya hesapları insanların vazgeçilmeziletişim araçları haline gelişmiştir. Yaygın kullanılan uygulamalardan biriolan WhatsApp artık akıllı telefon sahibi olan bireylerin birçoğununtelefonunda bulunmaktadır. Uygulama internete sahip tüm akıllı telefonlardamesajlaşma, görüntülü sohbet gibi pek çok avantajlar sağlamaktadır. Bu kadaryaygın kullanılan bu uygulama adli süreçlere yardımcı olabilecek pek çok deliliçerebilmektedir. Bu çalışmada sosyal medya kullanımının büyük bir hızlaarttığı günümüzde yaygın kullanılan WhatsApp uygulamasının adli bilişimaçısından incelenmesi sunulmuştur. Çalışmada Android tabanlı bir telefon rootluve rootsuz olarak incelenerek elde edilebilecek veriler ve konumları gösterilmiştir.</p></abstract>
                                                            
            
                                                                                        <kwd-group>
                                                    <kwd>adli bilişim</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  elektronik delil</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  WhatsApp</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  siber güvenlik</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  mobil adli bilişim</kwd>
                                            </kwd-group>
                            
                                                <kwd-group xml:lang="en">
                                                    <kwd>digital forensics</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  digital evidence</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  WhatsApp</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  cyber security</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  mobile forensics</kwd>
                                            </kwd-group>
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