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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

The Android Debug Bridge


We have discussed this in Chapter 2, Snooping Around the Architecture. It is a simple and powerful command line tool, which will be extensively used to communicate with an Android device and also control it. In order to connect with adb on a physical device, it is important to enable the USB-Debugging option. In Google Nexus 5, you can access this by navigating to Settings | Developer options, as shown in the following screen capture:

If you do not see the Developer options, it means that they are hidden; they can be turned on by tapping on Build number field, which can be found by navigating to Settings | About device | Build number. You should tap a total of seven times.

The following is a list of adb commands that we will be using throughout the course of testing.

Connecting to the device

Once the device is connected to the workstation, it can be found if the device is properly configured with the right device drivers by running the adb devices command and check whether...