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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

Mobile app penetration testing environment setup


Establishing a well-structured test environment is crucial for any type of security assessment. It is recommended that you always to begin with zero environment, that is, assuming nothing is present in your system. The following are the hardware and software requirements for setting up a basic infrastructure for Mobile Application Penetration Testing.

This book focuses on setting up the environment only on Windows and MacBook, but it does not restrict you from trying on Linux and other operating systems.

  • Hardware and OS requirements:

    • A workstation/laptop running Windows 7 (64-bit)

    • A MacBook running Yosemite OS X 10.10 or higher

  • Mobile Devices and OS requirements:

    • Google Nexus 5 or any other device running Android 5.0 or higher (rooted)

    • iPhone or iPad running iOS 8.4 or above (jailbroken)

  • Other requirements:

    • Compatible USB cables for mobile devices

    • Network Wi-Fi devices (one can utilize any smartphone with a tethering facility to act like a Wi-Fi router...