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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

Summary


In this chapter, we assessed different aspects of Android applications. We saw different types of vulnerabilities in application permissions, components (activities, services, content providers, and broadcast receivers), WebViews, broken cryptography, local SQL injection, lack of binary protection, and other misconfigurations that could be potentially exploited by cyber attackers. We also discussed some of the deadly sins that developers make during the development, such as hardcoding passwords with backdoors. Every aspect that we assessed could potentially be used by developers to find vulnerabilities using the tools that we used in this chapter. We also learned about potential entry points that cyber attackers could use in order to gain access to any Android device. As an assessor or developer, it is very critical to understand and fix them during the initial phases. Similarly, we will discuss how to attack iOS apps next, in Chapter 7, Full Steam Ahead – Attacking iOS Applications...