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Hacking Android

Hacking Android

By : Mohammed A. Imran, Rao Kotipalli
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Hacking Android

Hacking Android

4.4 (5)
By: Mohammed A. Imran, 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.
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Mobile applications server-side attack surface


Understanding the working of an application is paramount to securing the application. We will discuss how a typical Android application is designed and used. We will then delve into the risks associated with the apps.

Mobile application architecture

The following diagram shows a typical architecture of a mobile backend with an app server and DB server. This app connects to the backend API server which relies on a database server behind the scenes:

It is recommended to follow the secure SDLC process while developing software. Many organizations embrace this method of SDLC to implement security at each phase of the software development life cycle process.

Performing threat modeling early in the application design process would allow for strong control on security vulnerabilities in the application. Building an application with no defects early in the process is much cheaper than addressing them once an application is in production. This is something...

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