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See your app through a hacker's eyes to find the real sources of vulnerability

The Mobile Application Hacker's Handbook is a comprehensive guide to securing all mobile applications by approaching the issue from a hacker's point of view. Heavily practical, this book provides expert guidance toward discovering and exploiting flaws in mobile applications on the iOS, Android, Blackberry, and Windows Phone platforms. You will learn a proven methodology for approaching mobile application assessments, and the techniques used to prevent, disrupt, and remediate the various types of attacks. Coverage includes data storage, cryptography, transport layers, data leakage, injection attacks, runtime manipulation, security controls, and cross-platform apps, with vulnerabilities highlighted and detailed information on the methods hackers use to get around standard security.

Mobile applications are widely used in the consumer and enterprise markets to process and/or store sensitive data. There is currently little published on the topic of mobile security, but with over a million apps in the Apple App Store alone, the attack surface is significant. This book helps you secure mobile apps by demonstrating the ways in which hackers exploit weak points and flaws to gain access to data.

  • Understand the ways data can be stored, and how cryptography is defeated
  • Set up an environment for identifying insecurities and the data leakages that arise
  • Develop extensions to bypass security controls and perform injection attacks
  • Learn the different attacks that apply specifically to cross-platform apps

IT security breaches have made big headlines, with millions of consumers vulnerable as major corporations come under attack. Learning the tricks of the hacker's trade allows security professionals to lock the app up tight. For better mobile security and less vulnerable data, The Mobile Application Hacker's Handbook is a practical, comprehensive guide.

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"..there is a shocking lack of published material on the topic of mobile security. The Mobile Application Hacker's Handbook seeks to change this and be a positive movement to educating others in the topic of mobile security awareness." (Vigilance-Security Magazine, March 2015)

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View your app through a hacker's eyes

IT security breaches make headlines almost daily. With both personal and corporate information being carried in so many pockets, mobile applications on the iOS, Android, Blackberry, and Windows Phones are a fertile field for hackers. To discover the true vulnerabilities in a mobile app, you must look at it as a hacker does.

This practical guide focuses relentlessly on the hacker's approach, helping you secure mobile apps by demonstrating how hackers exploit weak points and flaws to gain access to data. Discover a proven methodology for approaching mobile application assessments and the techniques used to prevent, disrupt, and remediate the various types of attacks.

Learn to:

  • Understand the ways data can be stored and how hackers can defeat cryptography
  • Set up an environment in which insecurities and data leakages can be identified
  • Develop extensions to bypass security controls and perform injection attacks for testing
  • Identify the different types of attacks that apply specifically to cross-platform apps
  • Recognize how hackers bypass security controls such as jailbreak/root detection, tamper detection, runtime protection, and anti-debugging
  • Implement a generic methodology for mobile application testing

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wiley; Illustrated edition (February 13, 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 816 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1118958500
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1118958506
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.38 x 1.84 x 9.25 inches
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AlexL
5.0 out of 5 stars Does what the title says
Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2015
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I am a penetration tester and I found this book is is an excellent guide for assessing mobile applications. The other platform-specific books are great if you want to become a true expert in a specific platform, but this book provides the right amount of information for evaluating an application in a reasonable time frame. Don't be confused by the page counts (which was my biggest concern), I found this book to contain more useful application vulnerability information than the platform-specific books. More importantly, it provides the information you'll want to know, such as how to find the vulnerabilities in the application and in the code, and how to remediate them. The other books are great if you want to find advanced exploits, such as memory corruption attacks, including kernel exploits, but for general mobile application assessment, this is what I'd recommend. I hope they keep this book updated regularly since a lot of the details will be out of date in several years.

Full disclosure: I have not read the Windows Mobile or Blackberry sections.
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Chris
5.0 out of 5 stars If you've never tested a mobile application, this is the book to get!
Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2016
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If you're looking for ways to assess mobile applications, this is the book for you. This book is to mobile application penetration testing as the Web Application Hacker's Handbook is to web app penetration testing. The iOS Hacker's Handbook and Android Hacker's Handbooks are more device and OS-centric, whereas this book will give you the methodology to get up to speed testing the applications running on each of these platforms. (There is a small section on Windows Phone hacking as well). It's a good resource to get you from zero knowledge to dangerous enough.
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MasterWard
5.0 out of 5 stars Handbook reference
Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2021
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The book is as you would expect. It is the same as the Web Application Hacking Handbook. In almost every way.
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Caleb Kinney
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Mobile Application Security Resource!
Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2016
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Awesome mobile security resource - in depth, insightful, and well written. This book will be your guide from basic to advanced mobile security and assessments. The book is divided into platforms so it is an easy reference when completing platform dependent testing. My frequent go to reference when conducting mobile application penetration testing.
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Mountain Man
5.0 out of 5 stars This book does a good job of covering the basics and if you are ...
Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2015
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I am a professional penetration tester who specializes in mobile applications. This book does a good job of covering the basics and if you are looking to get started in mobile pen testing this is a great place to start. It has sections dedicated to iOS, Android, Windows and Blackberry applications.
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5.0 out of 5 stars thank you
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Good starting place for someone getting into mobile security
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Clinton
5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended book
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Great book. Highly recommend
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T. G.
5.0 out of 5 stars Super...
Reviewed in Germany on February 12, 2019
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Hat alles perfekt geklappt.
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Francesco P.
3.0 out of 5 stars Ormai obsoleto
Reviewed in Italy on January 14, 2019
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Il libro è ben scritto e si legge scorrevolmente ... purtroppo pero' ormai è obsoleto
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Barry
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Excellent book written by a very knowledgeable researcher.
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Good Book & Good Delivery service. Thank you.
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Ricardo El-Darwish
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent introduction to the topic!
Reviewed in France on November 18, 2015
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Practice makes perfect - for that there is no substitute - but this book was instrumental in getting me started. Introduces the reader to various indispensable told and covers the strategy of movie penetrating from both a general and OS-specific point of view, in a writing style that is easy to read. Highly recommended.
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