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Android Security Cookbook

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Android Security Cookbook

Overview of this book

Android Security Cookbook discusses many common vulnerabilities and security related shortcomings in Android applications and operating systems. The book breaks down and enumerates the processes used to exploit and remediate these vulnerabilities in the form of detailed recipes and walkthroughs. The book also teaches readers to use an Android Security Assessment Framework called Drozer and how to develop plugins to customize the framework. Other topics covered include how to reverse-engineer Android applications to find common vulnerabilities, and how to find common memory corruption vulnerabilities on ARM devices. In terms of application protection this book will show various hardening techniques to protect application components, the data stored, secure networking. In summary, Android Security Cookbook provides a practical analysis into many areas of Android application and operating system security and gives the reader the required skills to analyze the security of their Android devices.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Android Security Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Man-in-the-middle attacks on applications


Mobile phone users often use public Wi-Fi networks to access the Internet in coffee shops, libraries, and anywhere they are available. Unfortunately, due to how certain applications are developed, they can still fall victim to man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks. For those of you who don't know about MITM attacks, they are essentially attacks that allow adversaries to intercept your communication with the devices on your network; if you'd like to know more about the danger and technical specifics of these attacks in nonmobile contexts, check out some of the links in the See also section.

Why should we care about MITM attacks on mobile phones? Well, depending on how badly the content from an "insecure" channel to network-based resources is trusted, attackers may be able to do anything, from fingerprinting the applications running on your device to detailing every place where you've been, approximately where you live and work, and even take control of...