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Hacking Android

By : Srinivasa Rao Kotipalli
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Hacking Android

By: Srinivasa Rao Kotipalli

Overview of this book

With the mass explosion of Android mobile phones in the world, mobile devices have become an integral part of our everyday lives. Security of Android devices is a broad subject that should be part of our everyday lives to defend against ever-growing smartphone attacks. Everyone, starting with end users all the way up to developers and security professionals should care about android security. Hacking Android is a step-by-step guide that will get you started with Android security. You’ll begin your journey at the absolute basics, and then will slowly gear up to the concepts of Android rooting, application security assessments, malware, infecting APK files, and fuzzing. On this journey you’ll get to grips with various tools and techniques that can be used in your everyday pentests. You’ll gain the skills necessary to perform Android application vulnerability assessment and penetration testing and will create an Android pentesting lab.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Hacking Android
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 4. Overview of Attacking Android Apps

This chapter gives an overview of attack surface of Android. We will discuss the possible attacks on Android apps, devices, and other components in application architecture. Essentially, we will build a simple threat model for a traditional application that communicates with databases over the network. It is essential to understand the possible threats that an application may come across, in order to understand what to test during a penetration test. This chapter is a high level overview and contains lesser technical details.

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • Introduction to Android apps

  • Threat modeling for mobile apps

  • Overview of OWASP mobile top 10 vulnerabilities

  • Introduction to automated tools for Android app assessments

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