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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

Summary


In this chapter, we built the mobile app penetration testing environment for Android and iOS applications. We understood the various tools available in the Android SDK, their specific usage in our testing, and how to configure them in our local environment to make things easier and more efficient during testing. We installed Genymotion as our emulator solution and Google Nexus 5 as our real device.

This chapter also covered the process of setting up and configuring jailbroken Apple devices in order to perform iOS black-box penetration testing. We discussed Cydia packages in detail.

Finally, we discussed the pros and cons of using physical devices against using an emulator. Since we are ready with the test environment, we will be loading up all the relevant and required pentesting tools in Chapter 4, Loading up – Mobile Pentesting Tools.