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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

The iOS SDK (Xcode)


We have discussed what the iOS SDK and Xcode are in Chapter 2, Snooping Around the Architecture. In this section, we will go ahead and download the iOS SDK and run a simulator.

This SDK is available only on Mac OS X. Apple's iOS simulator is provided to run from Xcode by default, which will be useful to simulate and test for hardware and software combinations. The following are step-by-step instructions on how to get the Xcode up and running on a MacBook:

  1. Go to https://developer.apple.com/ios/download/; it will require an Apple developer account for the new versions.

  2. Search for Xcode, select the SDK version, and download.

  3. Once the download is complete, click on the .dmg file and install the Xcode application.

  4. Upon the completion of the installation, you will be able see the following screenshot, where you will be able to create a sample project using Xcode:

    Note

    It is not permitted to access the simulators without Xcode since all the applications are dependent on the Xcode.app...