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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

SSH clients – PuTTy and WinSCP


PuTTy is an open source terminal emulator that provides a serial console and file transfer functionality. It supports SSH, Telnet, Rlogin, SCP, and raw socket connections. This application can be downloaded from http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty.exe.

WinSCP (which stands for Windows Secure Copy) is an open source application that supports SFTP, FTP, WebDav, and SCP clients for Windows. It is mainly used to transfer the file between a remote computer and a local machine.

A portable version of WinSCP can be downloaded from https://winscp.net/download/winscp575.zip.

During our assessments, we will be extensively using Putty for Apple device communication through SSH and WinSCP for GUI-based transfers of files between the device and the local computer for offline analysis. It is recommended that you save all these files under a single folder while building the test environment; in this case, we save the files to C:\Hackbox\Tools.

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