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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

iOS SDK and Xcode


The iOS software development kit provides resources, technologies, and tools to developers that can help them make better choices about how to design and implement apps. Developed and supported by Apple Inc. and released in February 2008 to develop native apps for devices, it was previously called the iPhone SDK.

The iOS SDK itself is a free download, but beta-version SDKs a are paid service for developers. One must enroll in the Apple Developer Program (https://developer.apple.com/programs/).

Xcode is the integrated development environment (IDE) suite developed by Apple for the development of iOS apps (https://developer.apple.com/xcode/).

The latest version of the iOS SDK is iOS 9.3 beta 4, released on February 22, 2016 (https://developer.apple.com/ios/download/).

The following restrictions apply:

  • These SDKs can only be installed on Mac OS X

  • Apple does not impose a license on computers that are not running Mac OS X or are not Apple branded

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