The course begins with a brief introduction to mobile application security and the OWASP mobile top ten, following chapter 1 of the book. When delegates are comfortable with general mobile application security practices, we delve in to the security of the iOS platform, including an overview of the platform security features, jailbreaking and approaches to app security assessment. The following modules then review chapters 2, 3 and 4 of the book where common insecurities are covered, including but not limited too:
- Reverse engineering and patching binaries,
- Insecure file storage,
- Keychain attacks,
- Insecure transport security,
- Instrumenting the iOS runtime,
- Injection attacks,
- How to exploit IPC handlers,
- How to defeat security controls like jailbreak detection,
- Instrumentation on non-jailbroken devices.
Day 2:
Day two of the course picks up at chapter 6, discussing the various attack surfaces for the Android platform and how to approach an app assessment. We then walk through the details the techniques that from chapter 7 and 8 that can be used to attack Android applications, including the following topics:
- Reverse engineering and decompiling Android apps,
- Insecure file storage,
- Insecure transport security,
- Instrumentation of the Dalvik runtime with Frida and Substrate,
- Exploitation of insecure IPC endpoints,
- Tap jacking.
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This course covers a wide range of topics and is suitable for novices, right through to those looking to fine tune their knowledge of the advanced topics. The course is typically taken by penetration testers, software developers and those looking to gain a better understanding of mobile security. Programming is useful but not required to complete the course.
A laptop as per the student requirements section.
