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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

OWASP mobile app security checklist


The OWASP community has been working on getting the latest risks incorporated. The top 10 list might change in 2016 according to what we see as the top risk by considering various factors. You should be able to see the yearly commentary by visiting https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Mobile2015Commentary.

The checklist can be found at https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxOPagp1jPHWVnlzWGNVbFBMTW8/view.

Mobile app developers checklist

As we began this chapter with a security mind map, we will now go ahead and create a new checklist for assessment of any iOS and Android apps as follows:

Network Level

Certificate validation

Certificate validation is not performed

Certificate pinning implementation

No certificate pinning noted

Cipher suites configuration

Weak cipher suites noted

CFNetwork usage

CFNetwork API used to negotiate SSL/TLS connection

Side channel leakage prevention

Leaks information through other channels

Insecure caching on network

Improper...