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Android Security Cookbook

Android Security Cookbook

By : Keith Makan
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Android Security Cookbook

Android Security Cookbook

4.8 (6)
By: Keith Makan

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.
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Information disclosure via logcat


Android applications may leak sensitive information either inherently or as a result of harmful influence. When this happens, it's called an Information disclosure vulnerability. This recipe talks about how to check an application for potential leaks of sensitive information by inspecting the Android logcat, which is used by the application developers as a debugging tool. We will also talk about how you can take advantage of one of Android's built-in benchmarking tools to help make logcat inspection a little more rewarding.

Getting ready

Before we begin, you will need the following:

  • An emulator or an Android device set up and connected to your machine via ADB, this will require USB Debugging to be enabled on your Android device

  • The Android Debug Bridge (ADB)

Before beginning with this recipe, you should have already downloaded and updated your Android SDK. You should have either set up your PATH variables appropriately, or you should be in the working directory...

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