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Learning iOS Penetration Testing

By : Swaroop Yermalkar
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Learning iOS Penetration Testing

By: Swaroop Yermalkar

Overview of this book

iOS has become one of the most popular mobile operating systems with more than 1.4 million apps available in the iOS App Store. Some security weaknesses in any of these applications or on the system could mean that an attacker can get access to the device and retrieve sensitive information. This book will show you how to conduct a wide range of penetration tests on iOS devices to uncover vulnerabilities and strengthen the system from attacks. Learning iOS Penetration Testing discusses the common vulnerabilities and security-related shortcomings in an iOS application and operating system, and will teach you to conduct static and dynamic analysis of iOS applications. This practical guide will help you uncover vulnerabilities in iOS phones and applications. We begin with basics of iOS security and dig deep to learn about traffic analysis, code analysis, and various other techniques. Later, we discuss the various utilities, and the process of reversing and auditing.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning iOS Penetration Testing
Credits
Foreword – Why Mobile Security Matters
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 5. Sealing up Side Channel Data Leakage

 

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

 
 --Will Rogers

In the previous chapter, we studied about how to view or intercept iOS device's network traffic and you learned how to access the backend web APIs and check the transport layer protection. In this chapter, we will look forward to the sensitive data leakage done via various channels.

In this chapter, we will look at the following topics:

  • Data leakage via application screenshot

  • Pasteboard leaking sensitive information

  • Device logs leaking application sensitive data

  • Keyboard cache capturing sensitive data