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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 permissions


The iOS permission model is quite different compared to the Android platform, Apple has mandated that every single app accessing any class must request user permission, since all data is extremely segregated.

The following screen capture lists the applications that have been provided access to Photos:

With the recent release of iOS 8 and 9, there are plenty of changes to the privacy settings of the user and multiple features that the user can control have been introduced, for example, granting permission to an application that needs access to your photos. The following screen capture is one such example:

The changes to the settings are:

  • None of the applications are allowed access to location information

  • Only the app that is in the running state can use the feature, for example photos, camera, speaker, mic and so on

  • Only apps that are allowed to can access location information