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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

Emulator, simulators, and real devices


Sometimes, we tend to believe that all virtual emulations works exactly the same in the real devices, which is not really the case. Especially for Android, we have multiple OEMs manufacturing multiple devices with different chipsets running different versions of Android. It would be challenge for developers to make sure that all the functionalities for the app reflect this in all the devices.

It is very crucial to understand the difference between an emulator, simulator, and real devices and their advantages and disadvantages. Let's explore the differences now.

Simulators

The objective of a simulator is to simulate the state of an object, which is exactly the same state of an object. It is preferable when testing happens when the mobile interacts with parts of the natural behavior of the available resources. This is a reimplementation of the original software that is written; it is difficult to debug and mostly written in high-level languages.

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