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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

Server level


At the server level, the entire web server and web service communications are applicable. The following figure gives the high-level mind map for the set of important sections that have to be tightened before providing the backend services to any given mobile app. It also has the mapping done with the OWASP 10 (https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10_2013-Top_10), which are applicable. The server will not be considered completely secure with the following recommendations; however, developers have to refer to the OWASP Application Security Verification Standards for web apps.

Authentication

The majority of apps in the app store have not implemented any form of encryption to protect the authentication parameters. It is a best practice to implement any confidential user input such as login, password reset, and password recovery only through encrypted channels.

  • All the validations are performed including the user identification with the right password complexity

  • Do not provide any specific...