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Mobile Application Penetration Testing

By : Vijay Kumar Velu
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Mobile Application Penetration Testing

By: Vijay Kumar Velu

Overview of this book

Mobile security has come a long way over the last few years. It has transitioned from "should it be done?" to "it must be done!"Alongside the growing number of devises and applications, there is also a growth in the volume of Personally identifiable information (PII), Financial Data, and much more. This data needs to be secured. This is why Pen-testing is so important to modern application developers. You need to know how to secure user data, and find vulnerabilities and loopholes in your application that might lead to security breaches. This book gives you the necessary skills to security test your mobile applications as a beginner, developer, or security practitioner. You'll start by discovering the internal components of an Android and an iOS application. Moving ahead, you'll understand the inter-process working of these applications. Then you'll set up a test environment for this application using various tools to identify the loopholes and vulnerabilities in the structure of the applications. Finally, after collecting all information about these security loop holes, we'll start securing our applications from these threats.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Mobile Application Penetration Testing
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Jailbreaking


After looking at the security model, you might think that it takes somewhat more effort than Android to break into iOS apps. However, there are tech communities that are coming up with new ways of circumventing the security features implemented by iOS. Jailbreaking is one of the techniques used to remove the limitations imposed by the operating system on devices, through the use of software exploits.

Note

Similar to Android rooting, jailbreaking your iPhone will also void your warranty and support from Apple, so do not use your personal device for testing purposes.

The following screen capture illustrates the jailbreaking of an iPad using PP Jailbreak (http://pangu8.com/ppjb.html), with just a single click:

Why jailbreak a device?

There are a number of reasons to jailbreak a device, such as these:

  • You can change and customize the iOS interface

  • You have full access to the iOS filesystem and device, which even allows you to remove built-in apps

  • You can install custom apps or apps from...