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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

Introduction


In this chapter, we are going to see some components of the Android security architecture in action by directly engaging with them, specifically those focused on protecting applications. "You never really understand anything until you get your hands dirty." This is what this chapter tries to inspire; actually getting down and dirty with some of the security mechanisms, dissecting them, and really getting to know what they are all about.

We're going to cover just the bare minimum here, the tips and tricks that'll get you the information you need from an application, should you ever want to reverse engineer it or perform a pervasive hands-on security assessment for Android applications, or if you're just purely interested in finding out more about application security.